Murray Matheson – MRQE

“Banacek”

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.

Explosion

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During the height of the Vietnam war, a hippie and a draft dodger get together and hatch a plan to flee to Canada. They steal a car and head towards Vancouver, but the trip doesn’t go as smoothly as they planned, and before long they’re being chased by the police, accused of murdering several police officers.

Assault on a Queen

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

Wall of Noise

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The lives and loves behind the scenes at the racetrack are detailed in this thoroughbred soap opera. An ambitious young trainer, Joel Tarrant (Ty Hardin), enters into an illicit affair with the stable owner’s wealthy wife, hot-to-trot Laura Rubio (Suzanne Pleshette), in the hope that someday he’ll have enough dough to buy his own horses and stable.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s Communist revolution.

King of the Khyber Rifles

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan’s forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.

Flight to Tangier

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Iron Curtain. The reception committee includes Susan, an American; Gil Walker, a free-booting pilot; Danzer, a black market operator; and Danzer’s girlfriend, Nicki. The plane crashes and burns. No survivors are found, nor are any corpses. Soon the search begins for a missing courier worth $3 million.

Botany Bay

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on the story of Australia’s colonization, this atmospheric drama stars Alan Ladd as Hugh Tallant, an American medical student falsely convicted of robbery and sent on a torturous voyage with other prisoners to the penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.

Hurricane Smith

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.