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ificandream

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Fri Jan 16, 2026, 02:48 PM 11 hrs ago

TCM Schedule for Saturday, Jan. 24: 2001, A Space Odyssey; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Don't Look Back

AT A GLANCE

TCM SPOTLIGHT: FLASHBACK FRIDAYS
- ROMANCE
Brief Encounter (1945)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Last Time I Saw Paris, The (1954)
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- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
MGM Parade Show #2 (1955) (6:15 am ET)
Some Came Running (1958)
Holt of the Secret Service Ch. 5:
Exits to Terror (1941) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
King for a Day (1934) (short)
Don't Look Back (1967) (Musical Matinee)
Big Combo, The (1955)
Reunion in France (1942)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- TCM PRIMETIME
GUEST PROGRAMMER: AMY MADIGAN
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- NOIR ALLEY
Shield for Murder (1954)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: 1970's ACTION COMEDIES
Gumball Rally, The (1976)
Every Which Way but Loose (1978)

FULL DAY SCHEDULE

12:00 AM Brief Encounter (1945)
Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 AM Kitty Foyle (1940)
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks endures scandal and heartbreak when she falls for a high-society boy.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:45 AM The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
A soldier settles in Paris after WWII to start a career as a novelist and falls in love with a wealthy young beauty.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:15 AM MGM Parade Show #2 (1955)
Judy Garland and Bert Lahr perform in a clip from The Wizard of Oz. Gene Kelly introduces a clip from It's Always Fair Weather.
Dir: null Cast: Gene Kelly, Bert Lahr, George Murphy
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


7:00 AM Some Came Running (1958)
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 AM Exits to Terror (1941) (TCM Premiere)
Chapter 5 of the Holt of the Secret Service 1941 serial. A gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped a government engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service sends agent Jack Holt and a female partner after the gang.
Dir: James W. Horne Cast: Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, C. Montague Shaw
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Explorers try to use the jungle king to find a fountain of youth.
Dir: Lee Sholem Cast: Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: N


11:30 AM King for a Day (1934)
A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Bill Robinson, Ernest Whitman, Dusty Fletcher
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Don't Look Back (1967)
Bob Dylan is followed as he tours England in 1965. He plays the sphinx to an endless stream of reporters, stonewalls an awe-struck Donovan, and flashes lyric emblazoned cue cards to the camera, with Joan Baez and Alan Price also in tow.
Dir: D. A. Pennebaker Cast: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


1:45 PM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:15 PM Reunion in France (1942)
A Frenchwoman tries to help a downed U.S. flyer escape the Nazis.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:15 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending ...
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
A middle-aged man starts an affair with a younger woman and discovers the pain he causes his wife and children.
Dir: Bud Yorkin Cast: Mary Ewald, Gayle Bellows, Ally Sheedy
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


10:00 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Dir: Edmond O'Brien, Howard W. Koch Cast: Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM The Gumball Rally (1976)
When the code word "gumball" is passed by a rich young man, two housewives, two British gentlemen, one Italian Lothario, one motorcyclist, and a couple of Texans converge to participate in a secret nonstop car race from New York to California.
Dir: Charles Bail Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
Philo Beddoe is a bare-knuckle boxer who travels to his fights with his friend Orville, and Clyde, an orangutan who has a good right hook of his own. In one town, Philo meets an aspiring country western singer named Lynn and falls in love with her. Philo has a problem when Lynn decides to break up with him, and before long, ...
Dir: James Fargo Cast: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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