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01/03/1977 | 0576 | Whose Little Girl Are You? | A manic-depressive tennis star falls into a pill-induced suicidal stupor. In a daze, she recounts the series of unfortunate events that propelled and reduced her to such a pitiful state. | 4 | 148 |
01/04/1977 | 0577 | This Breed Is Doomed | A professional swindler bamboozles the residents of a small town and ends up absconding with an unwanted and unexpected piece of baggage. | 6 | 246 |
01/06/1977 | 0578 | The Man from Ultra | Solo Nakeela, an interstellar traveller who cannot know love, accidentally ruins the mind of the great Jeffrey Hale, a talented but fragile young artist. Can he help the young genius regain his sanity in time? | 8 | 130 |
01/07/1977 | 0579 | Conquest of Fear | While traveling through Spain, a bandit abducts a world-renowned actress. The beauty recognizes the desperado as one of Spain’s most skilled bull fighters that mysteriously vanished. She works to convince him to leave his life of crime and return to the professional arena. | 3 | 105 |
01/10/1977 | 0580 | Two Renegades | At the turn of the century, a case of mistaken identity lands a professional con man at the forefront of the Panamanian army. His failure as a General becomes apparent with his lack of skills and Panama’s enemies learn to take advantage of his weakness. | 6 | 89 |
01/11/1977 | 0581 | The Passing of Black Eagle | As a drunk, he is an easy going beggar, but when he is not drinking, he is the criminal known as \"Black Eagle\" -- destined to rob a locomotive! | 5 | 118 |
01/12/1977 | 0582 | Tobin's Palm | In order to discover the whereabouts of his absent-minded and missing girlfriend, Tobin visits an eccentric occultist to have his palm read. What he learns from the fortune-teller soon sends him on a wild goose chase, much to the amusement of his friend. | 6 | 167 |
01/13/1977 | 0583 | Don't Die Without Me | The mysterious case of two suicides in the early 20th century piques the interest of a reporter and prompts him to investigate into their deaths. He soon discovers that the one thing that links the incidents together is that the women drew their last breath in the exact same room in a seedy boarding house in Manhattan. | 6 | 187 |
01/14/1977 | 0584 | A Departmental Case | A retired gunfighter sheds his insurance clerk persona in order to track down an alleged wife-beating bank robber and bring him to justice. The ex-vigilante becomes conflicted when a New York reporter discovers that the deceased was actually not that different from her killer. | 6 | 113 |
01/15/1977 | 0585 | Cherchez la Femme | With the intention of making an investment, the owner of a French Quarter restaurant entrusted the sum of $10,000 to a long-time friend and customer. When an unexpected twist of fate resulted in the man’s death, the restaurateur is forced to hire a private eye to track down her money. The search takes him through the shadier side of New Orleans and all the way to New York City, only to find that what he was searching for had been underneath his nose all along. | 4 | 102 |
01/16/1977 | 0586 | Jimmy Valentine's Gamble | A professional thief goes on the straight and narrow after finally tiring of a life on the run. However, an unexpected crisis surfaces in his life and he must exercise his old skills to perform one last heist. | 5 | 100 |
01/17/1977 | 0587 | Son of Satan | A man and his wife come across an old friend in a stroke of luck. They soon discover that not only has he changed his name, but he actually joined a devil-worshipping cult as well. Despite his religious inclinations, they soon pick-up their old friendship to the extent of even trusting him to babysit their newborn child! | 8 | 139 |
01/19/1977 | 0588 | The Woman in Red | An unlikely thief steals a famous painting. The person who made off with the masterpiece has highly specific and long term plans for the art piece. | 3 | 94 |
01/21/1977 | 0589 | Happy Death Day | An overweight woman suffers from recurring nightmares of her death at the hands of a faceless man. Distraught over her horrific dreams, she visits a renowned psychologist to help her discover the meaning behind her disturbing nightly terrors. | 5 | 125 |
01/24/1977 | 0590 | License to Kill | Billy (Chappie) Chapman is a huge 6-foot 260-pound player is cut from the football squad because he lacks the killer instinct. When his wife is seriously injured in an auto accident and the medical bills start piling up, Chappie asks the coach for another chance. The coach renames him \'The Chopper,\' and tells him to go out on the field and destroy his opponents. Unfortunately, Chappie takes his coaches words literally to heart. | 5 | 104 |
01/26/1977 | 0591 | The White Wolf | A family living at the heart of a remote wilderness is haunted and plagued by a stalking werewolf. Despite the mystery surrounding the strange creature, the children have their own theories as to the real identity of the werewolf. | 20 | 130 |
01/28/1977 | 0592 | My Fair Lady-Killer | A series of deaths involving loose and promiscuous women lead a police detective to believe that the crimes are perpetrated by a serial killer. After narrowing the list of suspects, he is disturbed by the fact that the evidence points to the one person who does not fit the criminal profile supplied by the experts. | 6 | 132 |
01/31/1977 | 0593 | A Casual Affair | When a traveling salesman becomes entangled with a beautiful and mysterious lady, he becomes caught up in their casual affair. What he fails to realize is that his partner is more than what she appears to be and his life ends up in grave and terrible danger. | 8 | 204 |
02/02/1977 | 0594 | The Cat Is Dead | Years later, a husband and his wife return to France to attend the funeral of an old friend. In the city of love, they reminisce the past and remember the first time they met when she was a member of the French Resistance and he, an American soldier. | 4 | 85 |
02/04/1977 | 0595 | The Ripple Effect | In an attempt to recover several scandalous love letters from a bitter ex-mistress, a politician unwittingly sets off a chain of events that threaten to ruin his life, and the lives of those around him. | 13 | 150 |
02/07/1977 | 0596 | I Pronounce You Dead | A girl's teenage angst leads her to witchcraft. She awakens from a dream believing she has killed her family. | 15 | 98 |
02/08/1977 | 0597 | The Aurora Group | A man\'s problems begin after finding a quarter in his new suit dated nearly ten years into the future. After his discovery, he becomes plagued by visions of a future in which he murders his wife and becomes desperate when other objects from beyond begin appearing in his presence. | 30 | 184 |
02/10/1977 | 0598 | The Recluse | A young son learns of the fate of his late father as well as the fortune that went missing together with his disappearance after his grandmother dies, leaving him to inherit the family inn as well as the host of secrets it keeps. | 11 | 160 |
02/11/1977 | 0599 | Masquerade | The mysterious disappearance of a valuable set of pearls during a masquerade ball lands a gorgeous singer and her boyfriend in a case of international espionage and corporate intrigue. | 2 | 70 |
02/14/1977 | 0600 | Stamped for Death | A pair of greedy brothers inherits their father\'s priceless stamp collection upon his death. When the two bounders unwittingly misplace it, they make plans to swindle their elderly relatives out of theirs. | 7 | 106 |
02/15/1977 | 0601 | The Star Killers | The world\'s top nuclear researcher is either an insane murderess or a gullible innocent. The truth becomes clear when she is forced to recount the story of her marriage to a supposed alien to her therapist; and how she was later convicted for her husband\'s death. | 6 | 99 |
02/17/1977 | 0602 | If Mischief Follow | Just as she is ready to announce her engagement to another doctor, Marion's first husband, whom she thought was dead, returns and wants to resume the marriage. He needs an operation her fiance is best suited to provide. | 1 | 80 |
02/18/1977 | 0603 | A Heart of Gold | A murderous and evil woman fulfills a vainglorious desire to imprint her portrait on special gold coins. In a strange turn of events, the image that appears on the coins is a hideous reflection of her avaricious nature instead of her actual visage. | 7 | 136 |
02/21/1977 | 0604 | Orient Express | An estranged couple chance upon an unlikely reunion aboard the legendary Orient Express en route to Czechoslovakia. In this tale of international intrigue set during the Cold War, a shrewd reporter and sassy lounge singer become entangled in a web of lies and they must work together to uncover the truth. | 6 | 146 |
02/22/1977 | 0605 | Jane Eyre | A low-born governess falls in love with the lord of the manor in this classic tale of love and loss set in 19th century England. When she discovers he is wed to another, the poor woman flees her master and the mansion to make a new life for herself. | 4 | 77 |
02/24/1977 | 0606 | Last Judgement | A young nurse moves in with her father-in-law to take care of him when he falls ill. Her world is shaken when she unwittingly learns his terrible secret as the rich old man is haunted by the dark specters of his past. | 7 | 93 |
02/25/1977 | 0607 | Legend of Phoenix Hill | When an archeologist takes his adopted son on an expedition to China, the expedition is besieged by setbacks. A 2000 year old Chinese legend seems to hold the explanation. The young man dreams of the reincarnation of an ancient Chinese princess and feels an irresistable urge to uncover her. | 5 | 73 |
02/28/1977 | 0608 | The Light that Failed | In order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a painter and war correspondent does everything in his power to amass a fortune. When he scorns a woman he considers beneath his station, his carefully laid plans fall apart. | 2 | 79 |
03/01/1977 | 0609 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | In this classic tale of mystery and terror, the notorious sleuthing duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the disappearance of a young lady, and its connection to the legend of a ghostly hound said to haunt the moors surrounding the Baskerville estate. | 12 | 187 |
03/03/1977 | 0610 | The Overcoat | In post-revolutionary Russia, a man devotes his entire savings to purchasing a new coat to satisfy his boss. The rest of his life's problems are related to that coat. | 7 | 79 |
03/04/1977 | 0611 | Answer Me | Distraught over the death of his wife, a failed author leaves his life behind him and sets out to lose himself in the heat and barrenness of Mexico. Along the way, he comes across a mother and daughter living in a commune and their strange bond inspires him to write again. | 21 | 118 |
03/07/1977 | 0612 | Beyond the Barrier | A young scientist is terribly injured in a car crash. While in the hospital, he has an out of body experience that propels him into the past. While there, he meets and comes to terms with all the people that greatly impacted his life. | 3 | 98 |
03/08/1977 | 0613 | The Sign of Four | This classic tale of theft and betrayal hurtles the legendary Sherlock Holmes into the midst of a secret society. The terrible secrets continue to plague and haunt its members long after their pact is broken. | 4 | 125 |
03/10/1977 | 0614 | The Pleading Voice | A teenage girl recovering from an illness hears a disembodied voice beg to be let into a ruined building on the property. Her father and their minister explore the ruins to learn the source of the voice. | 5 | 78 |
03/11/1977 | 0615 | Till Death Do Us Part | A plain and middle-aged spinster becomes romantically entangled with her married boss. Unfortunately for her, her lover has made a promise to never leave his wife as long as they both live. His mistress hatches a plot to get rid of the wife so she can claim her man. | 4 | 129 |
03/14/1977 | 0616 | Look Backward Sometimes | A tennis pro plans to flee to Europe after fighting with her husband. Enroute, the plane crashes and she finds that her judge of character serves her well as she and the survivors struggle to survive. | 3 | 97 |
03/15/1977 | 0617 | The Shining Man | A young couple purchase a haunted house in Scotland where he is to take a new job. The man's uncle is a parapsychologist and tries to help them solve the mystery of the mysterious glowing in the windows at night. | 6 | 148 |
03/17/1977 | 0618 | Jobo | A mildly retarded hick from Texas seems to be the heir of the gods of Easter Island. An archeologist and his daughter take separate paths to discover the truth. | 11 | 80 |
03/18/1977 | 0619 | Little Green Death | In order to defend the proprietor of a small-town book shop charged with a crime he cannot remember, his best friend hires a hot shot lawyer to defend him. Things become complicated when the accused starts to doubt himself and begins to believe that he is actually guilty. | 3 | 122 |
03/21/1977 | 0620 | The Eighth Deadly Sin | A famous writer falls in love with a seductive actress with a penchant for walking on the wild side. When she continues to risk her life and fortune in a high stakes gamble, it sparks a dangerous and downward spiral that ultimately leads to the death of their relationship. | 6 | 86 |
03/22/1977 | 0621 | The Imposter | A woman, with the ghostly assistance of an actor long gone is inspired to write a full-length play despite having no theatrical experience whatsoever. When she tries to take full credit for the story, the real author\'s spirit asserts himself and demands that her name be pulled from the marquee. On opening night, the woman reveals the identity of the true writer of the successful show. | 2 | 86 |
03/24/1977 | 0622 | The Gift of Doom | A snowbound prospector is saved by an Eskimo witch from a fatal accident. He soon learns of her powerful skill with healing magic and decides to marry her. Her talents soon help further his political ambitions. However, bloated with his own self-importance he decides that he no longer needs the savage that is his wife and schemes to get rid of her. | 13 | 112 |
03/25/1977 | 0623 | A Study in Scarlet | A sealed room mystery that launched the careers of the legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A strange death, a valuable engagement ring and the word RACHE scrawled in blood send the brilliant Holmes and Watson hot on the trail of a wily and sinister murderer. | 7 | 118 |
03/28/1977 | 0624 | The Warriors from Loanda | Two unscrupulous ivory hunters are unexpectedly stranded in the dense jungles of the Congo and soon succumb to the heat and humidity of the rain forest. As isolation takes its toll, the two hunters slowly go mad and waste away. | 4 | 73 |
03/29/1977 | 0625 | The Coldest Killer | Completely enamored with her husband\'s business partner, a faithless wife and her lover scheme to dispatch the two hindrances to their affair: her nosy mother-in-law and her husband himself. | 2 | 118 |
03/31/1977 | 0626 | Death Is Blue | After discovering that his unattractive sister has managed to snare a handsome man as her fiance, he hires a private detective to look into the man\'s background. He is firmly convinced that the scoundrel is merely after her money. | 14 | 115 |
04/01/1977 | 0627 | You Bet Your Life | An expectant father with gambling problem swears off his addiction after suffering a particularly heavy loss. However, when he loses his job, he returns to the race-track and tries to earn a living by outwitting and outplaying lady luck. | 7 | 77 |
04/04/1977 | 0628 | So Shall Ye Reap | In the 1850’s, a small town in New Mexico becomes afflicted with a strange curse that affects only women and children. In a desperate bid to find a cure, the town’s mayor discovers an unspeakable horror from his past. | 6 | 79 |
04/05/1977 | 0629 | The Sensitive | A cynical and bitter skeptic attends a séance with his wife and his boss. Despite his aversion to things of the occult, he soon realizes that he is sensitive to the paranormal activities around him and actually has the power to manifest spirits into the physical plane. His so-called gift however comes with a terrible price. | 10 | 127 |
04/07/1977 | 0630 | The High Priest | A swindler tries to convince an art appraiser to declare his counterfeit painting to be real and worth millions. | 1 | 65 |
04/08/1977 | 0631 | Blood, Thunder, and a Woman in Green | A private detective in the 1940\'s stumbles into a murder investigation when his tabloid photographer friend is brutally slain over a controversial photo he took. | 11 | 101 |
04/11/1977 | 0632 | The Meteorite | When a meteorite crashes into a farm field, it is immediately claimed by a local college professor. However, upon closer examination it becomes apparent that there is more to the meteor than what it seems. The professor soon learns that the rock is actually an alien spacecraft, complete with alien pilot inside it! | 7 | 151 |
04/12/1977 | 0633 | Man-Sized in Marble | Americans on an extended working holiday find that one of them is a part of local prophecy and legend. The woman is linked to a blasphemous act in a cursed church. | 7 | 133 |
04/14/1977 | 0634 | The Phantom House | Two young sisters spend the summer with their aunt and uncle in the Virginia countryside at the turn of the century. One sister sees the image of a house destroyed more than 50 years before and struggles against becoming part of its terrible curse. | 4 | 95 |
04/15/1977 | 0635 | Borderline Case | A young girl, whose father is the town sheriff, becomes clairvoyant while gazing into a smoky-gray pearl worn by an old woman. She learns the terrible history of the valuable pearl and foresees the murder of the famous jewel's owner. Then she helps her father solve the crime. | 11 | 109 |
04/18/1977 | 0636 | A House Divided | A son returns home four years after joining the army with a plan of revenge for the murder of his D.A. father who was killed by his mother and her mob-connected lover. | 1 | 128 |
04/19/1977 | 0637 | The Book of Abaca | The captain and the engineer of a doomed oil freighter become the victims of the contents of the ship\'s log when the freighter\'s owner decides he wants the book for himself. | 3 | 70 |
04/21/1977 | 0638 | Come Away Death | An old lawyer makes a deal with Death to forestall his passing. He takes the job of death, and death takes his place. Who got the short end of the deal? | 4 | 120 |
04/22/1977 | 0639 | The Prisoner of Zenda | The coronation of a new king is disrupted when the king's brother drugs him. A distant relative who closely resembles the king steps in to take his place at the coronation. | 4 | 70 |
04/25/1977 | 0640 | Bound East for Haiti | On a commercial voyage, a sailor attempts to curse his captain with black magic to steal the girlfriend for himself. | 5 | 84 |
04/26/1977 | 0641 | The Adventure of the Red-Headed League | Sherlock Holmes helps a friend who has been swindled by a group of red-headed men. He uncovers a much larger scheme. | 5 | 89 |
04/28/1977 | 0642 | The Second Chance Lady | A door-to-door cosmetics sales lady unwittingly stumbles into the lair of a hold-up guy. She outwits them to stay alive. | 10 | 138 |
04/29/1977 | 0643 | Wuthering Heights | The prodigal son returns to the family homestead bent on siezing control from the relatives that treated him poorly as a youth. | 7 | 73 |
05/02/1977 | 0644 | Much Too Much | In this farce, the King of a tiny kingdom doesn't want to spend the money to purchase a guillotine to execute a prisoner. He explores several other means of execution and punishment, but can't find one that he deems cost effective. | 12 | 81 |
05/03/1977 | 0645 | The Luck Sisters | This is the story of twin sister residents of a mining town. One always brings good fortune, the other nothing but bad luck. When the residents have a chance to all get rich, the bringer of bad luck should start feeling very nervous. | 15 | 148 |
05/05/1977 | 0646 | Reunion Fever | Most of the attendees of a class reunion end up sick with many of them dying. One member of the class gets a letter offering to sell him the remedy for the mysterious virus for $10,000. | 4 | 109 |
05/06/1977 | 0647 | Bottom of the World | Arctic scientists must escape when threatened by a planetary catastrophe. | 9 | 117 |
05/16/1977 | 0648 | Mayerling Revisited | A young, engaged couple must confront the guy's domineering and wealthy father. As they deal with his father's opposition to their marriage, the woman has dreams of a similar couple over 100 years ago who confronted the same problem in the same house. | 1 | 59 |
05/17/1977 | 0649 | The Child's Cat Paw | A child and a strange cat weave a spell on an old man and a gold digger to put them together. The girl's motives are pure, the cat's are not. | 35 | 74 |
05/19/1977 | 0650 | A Matter of Customs | Detective novel enthusiast Millie and her husband Sam go on a sea cruise where they repeatedly encounter another couple. One of the couples keeps changing husbands, causing suspicion in the other. | 2 | 110 |
05/20/1977 | 0651 | Wine, Women, and Murder | A mild-mannered book seller travels to Germany for a poetry festival and is framed for murder. His only hope is an assistant secretary consulate who is only mildly interested in his case. | 3 | 101 |
05/23/1977 | 0652 | The Briefcase Blunder | When a briefcase full of money is left in Harry's cab, he finds out honesty will not always set you free. He finds himself in a whole lot of trouble after he turns it in to the police and the owner refuses to claim it. | 1 | 111 |
05/24/1977 | 0653 | Transmutation, Inc. | A small time hustler is forced into a moral dilemna where he must choose good or evil when he is confronted by the Devil himself. | 7 | 101 |
05/26/1977 | 0654 | The Countess | A French countess recounts her brief attraction to a Spanish prisoner of war and her marriage to a brutal French dignitary. | 4 | 55 |
05/27/1977 | 0655 | Guilty Secret | A Senator finds himself in the middle of a presidential race with a terrible secret he must conceal. He is sure that people know of an indiscretion from his past and will use it against him. | 9 | 92 |
05/30/1977 | 0656 | The Silent Witness | A Hawaiian banker is haunted by a vision of an open grave in an American cemetary. His new assistant's wife brings back painful memories for him. | 4 | 64 |
05/31/1977 | 0657 | The Boscombe Pool Mystery | Sherlock Holmes solves the murder mystery of a young man who is accused of murdering his father. The evidence seems irrefutable, but Holmes dissects it. | 1 | 95 |
06/02/1977 | 0658 | A God Named Smith | A young child prodigy creates an entire planet of his own, intending it to be a better world than earth. He finds volunteers to populate it, and establishes himself as a god. | 9 | 131 |
06/03/1977 | 0659 | The Two-Dollar Murders | A man tries to cover up an affair and murder by killing a cop who writes him a parking ticket. The unlikliest of clues and the unlikliest of witnesses gives him away. | 4 | 115 |
06/06/1977 | 0660 | The Blood Red Wine | A man wonders out of a storm into a couple's house and dies of a heart attack. He is carrying with him $250,000 stolen money. Do they keep it or give it back despite the fact that nobody knows they have it? | 11 | 122 |
06/07/1977 | 0661 | The Curse of Conscience | A hustler and loser fall in with an elderly woman who tries to put him on the straight and narrow path. When he finds himself in a bind, he aims to take advantage of her -- with dire consequences. | 4 | 88 |
06/09/1977 | 0662 | Dialogue with Death | A man is reunited with a childhood love and wants to marry her. He has difficulty dealing with her one peculiarity: she regularly talks to her dead parents and her dead horse. | 10 | 134 |
06/10/1977 | 0663 | The Night We Died | It's con man versus con man in this sci-fi story of double-crossing and murder as a veteran of the Lunar Revolt tries to scam a war widow. | 2 | 56 |
06/13/1977 | 0664 | First Woman in Space | The first woman in space returns to earth with an alien living within her --- an alien that will fight her for control of her body and survival in her new environment. | 4 | 78 |
06/14/1977 | 0665 | Murder One | A wealthy widow is being blackmailed by her maid for killing her husband. So she tries to frame her for her own crime. | 3 | 99 |
06/16/1977 | 0666 | Little Lucy's Lethal Libation | Womens Lib runs amok. An advertising executive suspects that women plan to take over the world when his female boss assigns him to an account with an overbearing female client who shuns publicity. | 9 | 106 |
06/17/1977 | 0667 | Two Motives for Murder | A young broker thinks he's in trouble when $100,000 in bonds entrusted to him comes up missing. But his troubles really begin when his boss invites him out on his yacht to discuss the matter. | 4 | 82 |
06/20/1977 | 0668 | The Birthmark | A scientist believes that a hand-shaped birthmark on his wife's cheek is the only thing standing between her and perfect beauty. He develops a means of removing it and his wife is willing. What price will they pay for their vanity? | 6 | 86 |
06/21/1977 | 0669 | Tomorrow, Cloudy and Cold | A scientist conducts experiments on a young drifter to allow him to be able to control the weather with his emotions. When his young subject escapes, the scientist must find his subject before he creates havoc. | 3 | 80 |
06/23/1977 | 0670 | The Red Circle | A middle-class housewife has an unexpected visitor who is an old friend from whom she has not heard in many years. The old friend has an incredible tale to tell that pits her friend against her old friend's husband. | 4 | 135 |
06/24/1977 | 0671 | Fan Mail | An overly obsessed fan is angry when her favorite soap opera character is killed off, believing it to be real. Meanwhile, the actors live out a real-life soap opera. | 3 | 105 |
06/27/1977 | 0672 | Come, Fill My Cup | A train conductor recounts how a regular poker game on commuter train 4321 turned into murder by poison. | 5 | 104 |
06/28/1977 | 0673 | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes is hired by a young heiress to find out who killed her sister in a sealed room murder. | 3 | 78 |
06/30/1977 | 0674 | Dead Men Do Tell Tales | A dead man recounts how his life came to an end as he served as the conscience of a group of men who committed a horrible act twenty years prior. Meanwhile, a pair of detectives pursue his killer. | 1 | 62 |
07/01/1977 | 0675 | Revenge | Set in an 1880's western town, a wealthy man comes to town bent on revenge on three men who wronged him many years prior. His reasons for revenge are startling. | 5 | 84 |
07/04/1977 | 0676 | Boomerang | A young witch tries to enlist the aid of Satan in order to deploy spells against the man who continues to spurn her. But they always backfire and end up hurting her. | 7 | 105 |
07/05/1977 | 0677 | Hexed | A newlywed is sure that her husband's manservant is trying to put a hex on her because he resents her upsetting the household. She tries to convince her husband to sell their Carribean plantation and move. He wants to stay and solve the mystery. | 5 | 75 |
07/07/1977 | 0678 | A Stranger Among Us | A tale of UFO encounter, abduction, and subsequent hypnosis to recover the memories. A woman, arrested for auto theft, claims that she is the victim of an alien abuction. Supposedly based on a true story. | 2 | 105 |
07/08/1977 | 0679 | The Gift | Rita Holland and Walter Powers accomplish a murder they have been planning for some time. They go to Rita's apartment and after she turns up the hi-fi to its loudest pitch, Walter shoots her husband, Dennis. Their explanation to the police is that Dennis was killed by a burglar trying to steal his valuable coin collection. The police begin a routine investigation, so routine that Walter, subject to hallucinations, starts believing they know he's guilty. | 3 | 75 |
07/11/1977 | 0680 | A Scandal in Bohemia | The king of a Bohemian nation employs Sherlock Holmes to retrieve a scandulous photo from an old fling. Holmes finally meets his match in cunning and deduction. | 4 | 113 |
07/12/1977 | 0681 | The Colonel Chabert | A French colonel, thought to be dead, returns to his family and tries to recover some of his fortune from his wife who has since remarried and borne a family. She is reluctant because he can reveal her less than distinguished past. | 2 | 67 |
07/14/1977 | 0682 | A Matter of Conscience | A young Kentuckian joins the Union Army, defying his parents who are loyal to the Confederacy. He is immediately sent to spy on a nearby Confederate regiment and meets an unlikely enemy. | 4 | 48 |
07/15/1977 | 0683 | The Kingdom Below | A wealthy American financier and his wife travel to Europe to help their daughter find a husband with the aristocracy. The daughter soon falls in love, but not with a man of whom her father approves. | 4 | 120 |
07/18/1977 | 0684 | The Bisara of Pooree | A British soldier buys a small, mysterious jewelry box that brings him bad luck. His luck doesn't change when the box is stolen. To get the girl of his desire, he must steal it back. | 3 | 80 |
07/19/1977 | 0685 | The Mysterious Island | After escaping a prison camp via hot air balloon, two union soldiers and a reporter land on a mysterious island where they have an unseen benefactor seeing to their needs. | 2 | 102 |
07/21/1977 | 0686 | Rendezvous with Death | A football player with incurable cancer goes mountain climbing and meets a mysterious woman. She provides him love and comfort, but no one else knows she exists. | 3 | 75 |
07/22/1977 | 0687 | The Secret of the Aztecs | A man's car breaks down in the desert and he encounters the ghost of an old man named Quetzal who shows him to the long lost Aztec Gold and instructs him to guard the Aztec's treasure from a being known as 'The Savage.' He can't convince anyone that he saw the ghost of the old man and everybody thinks he's insane. | 4 | 109 |
07/25/1977 | 0688 | The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | The gift of a Christmas goose with a valuable jewel inside and an old hat send Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the hunt for the goose's owner. | 7 | 171 |
07/26/1977 | 0689 | The Rocket's Red Glare | A scientist working on a top secret weapons project commits suicide in front of coworkers. A local cop suspects it was foul play and runs headlong into a case of espionage. | 1 | 111 |
07/28/1977 | 0690 | The Secret of Laurels | In this gothic sealed-room murder mystery, a man is convicted of killing his best friend. His son sets out to prove him innocent, suspecting that it was his father's widow who did it. | 5 | 89 |
07/29/1977 | 0691 | The Thousand and First Door | A man is brought into the hospital suffering from an apparent stroke. But as he retells the final days of his life for us, we find his demise was much more complicated with an uncaring, selfish wife and her paramour. | 6 | 96 |
08/08/1977 | 0692 | Hope Springs Eternal | A woman's fiancee disappears without a trace after walking out the back door of their cabin. For the next 40 years, she waits for his return. | 8 | 87 |
08/10/1977 | 0693 | Case Closed | An engineer holds up a bank and takes a teller hostage. His demands are unusual. As the standoff continues, he learns a lot about himself from his hostage. | 1 | 85 |
08/12/1977 | 0694 | For Want of a Nail | A woman's plane is forced to land in a North Dakota town that just happens to be the home of the biggest customer of the company her husband owns. But when she decides to see the factory, she finds out the Audley Company doesn't exist. | 3 | 196 |
08/15/1977 | 0695 | The Together Place | A country doctor treats a woman who lives with her daughter on a remote island. The daughter has been communicating with a twin sister who lives in another dimension. | 9 | 70 |
08/17/1977 | 0696 | In the Fog | A shell-shocked World War I veteran gets lost in the fog and stumbles into a woman who is anxious because she will miss an appointment. He helps her to find her way home and she later turns up dead. | 19 | 97 |
08/19/1977 | 0697 | The Instrument | A writer keeps an incompetent agent because the agent had saved him from drowning years before. Just when he's getting ready to fire him, he finds himself in need of his agent's services again... and again.... | 10 | 89 |
08/22/1977 | 0698 | Return to Pompeii | An American widow tours Italy with her colleague. When their tour bus breaks down, they are forced to walk to Pompeii. There, the widow has a strange dream. | 3 | 61 |
08/24/1977 | 0699 | The Adventures of Don Quixote | The adventures of the fractured fairy tale of Don Quixote and his misadventures in 15th Century Spain. They are not giants, they are windmills. | 5 | 60 |
08/26/1977 | 0700 | Area Thirteen | In a future society, genetic engineering is used to manipulate people's personality and skill sets. So, when unengineered and unregistered children are born (a forbidden act) it becomes a matter of security. One such child has been located... | 2 | 73 |
08/29/1977 | 0701 | To Be a Rose | A psychotic murderer kept incarcerated in a mental asylum recounts the days of him being a sensitive poet and how he fell in love. But his beloved broke his heart and drove him over the edge. | 4 | 53 |
08/31/1977 | 0702 | The Reunion | An American war veteran meets a fellow soldier in Paris, a decade after the D-day at Utah Beach during World War II. He discovers that his friend leads a Jekyll and Hide life. | 5 | 72 |
09/02/1977 | 0703 | Olive Darling and Morton Dear | A stress-relieving journey into nature might prove fatal for a diffident accountant who ends up sharing a room with a self-proclaimed writer who can be a deadly robber in reality. | 5 | 108 |
09/05/1977 | 0704 | The Waiting Room | A cordial invitation from an elderly couple for a weekend stay at their mansion has sinister repercussions for a young couple. They have been baited for a deadly occult ritual dedicated to evil. | 27 | 131 |
09/07/1977 | 0705 | Silent Shock | A female inmate of a mental asylum talks to invisible people and awaits the return of a beloved who might not exist. But the doubt lies in whether she is actually insane or made disturbed intentionally. | 14 | 104 |
09/09/1977 | 0706 | The Woman in the Green Dress | An apparition of a lady in a green dress haunts a visitor in his friend's residence. Things get interesting when he finds her mentioned in a coat of arms in the architecture of a derelict, local church. Further enquiry with the old church sexton reveals a strange murder committed nearly eighty years back. Can he solve the mystery now? | 3 | 82 |
09/12/1977 | 0707 | First Childhood | An intelligent but whimsical aged lady must prove herself capable in mind as detractors try to take away her house and livelihood. But they might be up for a surprise. | 7 | 104 |
09/13/1977 | 0708 | The Way to Dusty Death | A strange story of hatred set in the back woods, where a baron would rather let a dead man's body get decomposed in the open, unattended by any ritual or funeral. When the deceased man's daughters fail to reason with him, the baron's son steps in to plead with him. | 5 | 51 |
09/15/1977 | 0709 | Passport to Freedom | A couple involved in espionage for the U.S. government fly out to a small country kept behind the iron curtain to help a scientist couple escape, so his discoveries can benefit the world. But trouble follows soon as the scientist tries to take his mistress along instead. | 1 | 61 |
09/16/1977 | 0710 | Death on Project X | A weapons investigator runs into trouble with a routine check at a facility as he meets an apparently deranged scientist who lets him know that they have manufactured the ultimate weapon and plan to utilize it soon. | 16 | 82 |
09/19/1977 | 0711 | The Wind and the Flame | A blackmailer pesters a rich businessman through phone calls. But it is the maid who answers his calls most of the time and she begins to suspect her employer's past? But is she blameless herself? | 5 | 109 |
09/20/1977 | 0712 | The Tunnel Man | A deranged scientist invents a machine that can cut through elemental rock as easily as a ship cruising through the ocean. With the forecast of an approaching seismic disturbances in the town, he has the power to make it dance to his tunes and the mayor must decide on their course. | 3 | 73 |
09/22/1977 | 0713 | The Plan | The whims of a wealthy woman leads to the demise of her favourite maid and she is wracked with guilt. | 8 | 87 |
09/23/1977 | 0714 | The Burning Whirlwind | A trusting aged woman withdraws eight million dollars and keeps it stashed at her home. Unfortunately the person who helped her transfer the amount has other ideas and hires a criminal to dupe her out of it. | 3 | 84 |
09/26/1977 | 0715 | The Guy de Maupassant Murders | The sensational tale of a serial murderer is followed by a judge and his attendant. The killer seems to exclusively choose young women as his victims and leaves tantalizing notes next to their corpses. The erudite attendant tries to trace the style of writing that seems oddly familiar to her but the judge keeps aloof. | 11 | 111 |
09/27/1977 | 0716 | The Wintering Place | An aged widower forces himself sexually onto a female scientist and later murders her. Now he is haunted by her ghost who also calls upon the ghost of his wife to make him confess his actions. | 9 | 68 |
09/29/1977 | 0717 | The Solitary | The story of an unlikely friendship between a prisoner and the security officer. The prisoner is hated and tortured by another guard regularly and the warden tries to find a way to resolve the conflict. | 24 | 99 |
09/30/1977 | 0718 | Trilby | An arrogant hypnotist turns a depressed young woman into a popular singer. But she cannot sing nor remember her performances while she is not under the spell. Can fame remain the sole compensation for her fragmented life? | 2 | 63 |
10/03/1977 | 0719 | Mother Knows Best | A cash strapped former college football idol and an opportunist juvenile delinquent try to borrow from the football player's wealthy uncle. But the uncle ends up murdered and everyone suspects the footballer, including his mother. But her own uneasy conscience over his neglected childhood forces her to look for the real culprit. | 3 | 69 |
10/05/1977 | 0720 | The Sea Nymph | A greedy antique collector pays a deep sea diver to find an old figurine from a shipwreck. But the rather straightforward task throws up unexpected difficulties - a strange occupant dwelling in the shipwreck and a beautiful girl under the apparent care of the collector himself. | 2 | 85 |
10/07/1977 | 0721 | The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet | The classic Sherlock Holmes tale of a financier father apparently apprehending his son while trying to steal valuable gems from an ancient crown left in his care. Holmes is asked to obtain a confession but he finally solves the mystery from the silence of a suspect. | 5 | 95 |
10/10/1977 | 0722 | The Actress | The quintessential story of an actress slowly losing her own self in the life of the tragic character she is supposed to enact. | 3 | 76 |
10/12/1977 | 0723 | The Case of Chateau-Margaux | A wounded horse is the only witness to the disappearance of a rich man and his nephew is apprehended for it. A mysterious case of costly wine might be his only salvation. | 2 | 65 |
10/14/1977 | 0724 | The People of Sissora | A man spots another at a restaurant dinner and pins him down as the ultimate threat to mankind. It transpires that they are both from a different planet! | 8 | 119 |
10/17/1977 | 0725 | Return Engagement | An intriguing tale of an aged actor turned small time hoodlum. He steals arbitrarily but can he be a murderer too? | 16 | 115 |
10/19/1977 | 0726 | The Island on Silver Tree Lake | A lady is forced to catch a boat ride to an island resort after an accident with her car. The island has a strange name and she ends up as an unwilling participant in a mystery. | 13 | 157 |
10/21/1977 | 0727 | Sorry to Let You Go | What happens when technology takes on the job of governance? A quirky story about a man in his 50's being expelled from his job because the computer finds him too aged to be productive. When he looks for other job options, all computers give him the same answer. When he is finally driven to suicide in order to be able to claim his insurance, yet another computer steps in to prevent him. And his wife has no idea that he is unemployed | 3 | 87 |
10/24/1977 | 0728 | Trial for Murder | Two writers interested in reporting a murder end up sharing resources on the same murder trial. Furthermore, the spirit of the murdered man appears to help things along. | 4 | 71 |
10/25/1977 | 0729 | Just to Keep Busy | A betrothed man strives to win the affection of his friend's secretary. When she finds out his double game, she takes the extreme step and he becomes the suspect. | 7 | 134 |
10/27/1977 | 0730 | The House by the Seine | A French underground movement member becomes a legendary actress. One day, she receives a parcel of a recently used pistol and is quickly framed the assassination of her boyfriend. She must use her unique talents and presence of mind to discover the identity of the real murderer. | 2 | 47 |
10/28/1977 | 0731 | A Question of Identity | A curious twist on the heist tale. A young man who trades jewels for a living wakes up to find his identity stolen in the hotel he is staying at. He is certain that he has been cheated to rob him off the diamonds he carried with him. | 2 | 72 |
10/31/1977 | 0732 | Trial by Fire | A clever deceiver manages to convince a tribal group that he is the appointed messiah from their deity of fire and dupes them into entrusting him with a fabulous jewelled crown. But trouble starts brewing when the fire god himself appears! | 2 | 57 |
11/01/1977 | 0733 | Last Train Out | A communist spy story reminiscent of the McCarthy era. An American film crew tries to film the last journey of a legendary train “The Orient Express” and falls into a communist espionage trap. They must comply with the wishes of these shady characters to get out of it alive. | 4 | 64 |
11/03/1977 | 0734 | Land of the Living Dead | In their journey to a distant village tucked away in the interiors of Brazil, two scientists find themselves stranded at an airport in a mysterious village. A village filled with an ancient people with their strange customs and rituals. | 5 | 71 |
11/04/1977 | 0735 | The Final Judgement | A classic tale from the legendary fables of King Solomon. Three merchants go to Solomon to get his counsel as to which of them is unscrupulous. Solomon uses his sagacity and devices a unique strategy to get at the truth. | 6 | 65 |
11/07/1977 | 0736 | The Therapeutic Cat | A desperately lonely aged man adopts a cat to keep him company who proves to be extraordinarily companionable. But her qualities might have other intrinsic sources than simple feline nature as she is revealed to be a witch. | 19 | 139 |
11/08/1977 | 0737 | The Haunted Mill | A young voyager takes up a long journey lasting three years. His sweetheart back home falls for another man in his absence. But his subsequent return strokes her old passions much to the chagrin of her present beau who swears revenge. The traveller meanwhile is completely preoccupied with a decrepit, haunted mill. | 20 | 102 |
11/10/1977 | 0738 | A Tale of Two Worlds | An actor gets so involved with his character on a soap opera that he is inconsolable when the character is killed off according to the diktats of the script. His co-actors try to help him bargain in a losing dialogue with the arrogant producer. | 2 | 80 |
11/11/1977 | 0739 | We Meet Again | The murderer recently apprehended by her husband turns out to be the wife's old flame. She is convinced of the man's innocence and feels guilty for having ditched him. She decides to take the investigation into her own hands along with a bit of help from her husband. | 6 | 129 |
11/14/1977 | 0740 | The Gloria Scott | The evergreen Sherlock Holmes tale of unravelling a case around a mutiny aboard the ship Gloria Scott with the help of a coded message from one of its survivors. | 4 | 74 |
11/15/1977 | 0741 | A Point of Time | Set in the future 2057, North America is controlled by a savage autocrat. A scientist brother and sister pair come up with a plan to alter his past and make him a little more compassionate. They decide to send an officer into his past in order to effect this. | 2 | 73 |
11/17/1977 | 0742 | Hunted Down | A man's beloved is killed in order to effect an insurance scam. He vows revenge and sets down on a hunt to bring the murderer to justice. | 4 | 98 |
11/18/1977 | 0743 | A Grain of Salt | An enchanting Irish folk tale is repeated in America as a young Irish lady asks an Irish cop to help find her lost purse that contains an enchanted salt shaker. She also recounts how her father acquired the shaker from the ancient Old Man of the Stone back at home. | 16 | 106 |
11/21/1977 | 0744 | She | An explorer and the son of his former co-worker journey to a distant island and find a mythic goddess who caused the death of the young man's predecessors. They also find an ancient queen who has waited hundreds of years to wreck revenge on the murderer of her lover. | 2 | 56 |
11/23/1977 | 0745 | The Pinkerton Method | The story of the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency and how they got started with nabbing train robbers with a pursuit in Missouri involving the death of an innocent railway worker. | 3 | 57 |
11/25/1977 | 0746 | Indian Giver | A rich old woman's estate is haunted by an Indian ghost who drives away all her guests and domestic help. She engages the services of an easy-going private eye to help her solve the problem. | 5 | 102 |
11/28/1977 | 0747 | The Man Is Missing | A lady pesters investigators to find her missing husband. One of them decide to help her on his own as he falls for her. But his wife gets interested too and manages to unearth some astonishing facts. | 10 | 131 |
11/30/1977 | 0748 | The Teddy Bear | A classic cold war phobia narrative about a reporter investigating the discovery of a weapon by the Russians that can read and control every mind. | 8 | 48 |
12/02/1977 | 0749 | Neatness Counts | An investigator ends up with the unfortunate duty of solving the murder mystery about a man so universally panned that each and every person he knew in his lifetime could be a suspect. | 3 | 90 |
12/05/1977 | 0750 | The Lost Tomorrows | A pair of American adventurers set on a trip to a sacred Yucatan cave to retrieve antique artifacts despite dire warnings from the locals not to trespass on the premises. | 7 | 85 |
12/07/1977 | 0751 | Fire and Ice | A tiff between a father and daughter on the choice of her suitor leads to an extremely taxing expedition for both the chosen candidates selected by the two. But the results throw even them into surprise! | 9 | 111 |
12/09/1977 | 0752 | This Time Around | A man struggles to survive in his career and marriage. But his mind seems ridden with visions of an apocalyptic battle as a medieval knight. Later, Sir Kenneth overruns his mind completely. | 1 | 48 |
12/12/1977 | 0753 | The Ten Million Dollar Heist | Set in 1876, this story is about two seasoned burglars and a good-natured young chap attempting to pull off the biggest bank heist in history. | 1 | 63 |
12/14/1977 | 0754 | The Death Shot | A honeymoon in Greece turns nightmarish as the husband photographs a murder par hasard. The killer is an important political leader and the couple must decide on a course to ensure their survival. | 3 | 65 |
12/16/1977 | 0755 | The Ghost with a Knife | Alleged to based on real-life incidents, this is the story of a family threatened by a knife-wielding spirit who kills their plants and repeatedly adjusts their thermostat. Ghost hunters try to talk to him and understand his strange behaviour. | 7 | 93 |
12/19/1977 | 0756 | Brothers of the Angle | Mrs. Buttwheezer is the rich heroine of this tale of undying love. She believes her deceased husband will return from his grave to keep her company. A bunch of swindlers decide to take advantage of this using the old man's love for poetry and fishing and claim to get messages from him to win her trust. | 13 | 68 |
12/21/1977 | 0757 | The Big Ten-Cent Hustle | An autobiographical sketch narrated by a minty new Mercury dime. | 6 | 66 |
12/23/1977 | 0758 | The Witching Well | A young man goes on a discovery of the past with the death of his father. He heads to an isolated, little village in Ireland and learns its terrifying secret and more about his father and himself than he ever intended to. | 10 | 84 |
12/26/1977 | 0759 | The Ghosts of Yesterday | A socialite past her prime is asked to identify the person responsible for the death of her family and her whole village in a war pogrom. But she is long past those events and disinclined to raise the curtain on her less than modest background for the fear of endangering her present. | 7 | 78 |
12/28/1977 | 0760 | The Missouri Kid | Based on a real-life incident, this is the true tale of the investigation of the murder of a Pinkerton detective by his brother and another detective as they strive to bring the responsible bank robbers to court. | 5 | 70 |
12/30/1977 | 0761 | The Ninth Volume | A geologist accidentally makes the fabulous discovery of a modern residence buried underneath the rocks for twelve billion years. This structure also houses a nine volume history of the world that also encapsulates the present (1998) and the future of our world. But the ninth volume is lost and he must find it before the deadline. | 25 | 127 |