TCM Schedule for Thurs, Nov 27, 2025: Family Classics / Thanksgiving with Carol Burnett
DAYTIME (EST)
7:00 AM | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Fanciful biography of the German fairy-tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories.
Dir: Henry Levin | Cast: Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm, Claire Bloom
9:30 AM | The Secret Garden (1949)
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox | Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
11:15 AM | The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
A young boy dreams that his piano teacher is a super-villain out to rule the world.
Dir: Roy Rowland | Cast: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried
12:45 PM | The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
A zany professor invents a material which when added to rubber makes things fly or gives them leap.
Dir: Robert Stevenson | Cast: Fred Macmurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn
2:30 PM | Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Rex Harrison doesn't just talk to the animals -- he sings to them, doctors them, and loves them in this charming musical.
Dir: Richard Fleischer | Cast: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley
5:15 PM | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
An eccentric inventor uses his flying car to free a kingdom of children from oppression.
Dir: Ken Hughes | Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
THANKSGIVING NIGHT WITH CAROL BURNETT
8:00 PM | Little Miss Broadway (1938)
An orphan adopted by show people helps them fight off a nasty landlady.
Dir: Irving Cummings | Cast: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante
9:30 PM | Top Hat (1935)
A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
11:30 PM | Show Boat (1951)
Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
1:30 AM | Kiss Me Kate (1953)
A musical stage version of "Taming of the Shrew" is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
3:30 AM | Lovely to Look At (1952)
All-star remake of Roberta, with three Broadway producers inheriting a Parisian fashion house.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy | Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel
TCM LATE NIGHT: LILY DAMITA COMEDY
5:15 AM | Goldie Gets Along (1933)
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Dir: Malcolm St. Clair Cast: Lily Damita, Charles Morton, Sam Hardy