TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 24: Director King Vidor/TCM Spotlight: Disaster Films

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Director George Roy Hill - Part 2 - With Robert Redford (continued)

12:15 AM The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Dreaming of the glory denied him in WWI combat, cocky aviator Waldo Pepper thrills the American Midwest with his barnstorming antics in the 1920s.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Susan Sarandon
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC:

TCM Late Night: Red Skelton Comedy

2:15 AM Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:45 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective's southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Director King Vidor

6:30 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:15 AM An American Romance (1944)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:30 AM H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:30 PM Northwest Passage (1940)
True story of Major Rogers' Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan, Robert Young
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:00 PM Comrade X (1940)
An American warms up an icy Russian streetcar conductor.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:30 PM The Citadel (1938)
A struggling doctor is tempted to give up his ideals for a posh high-society practice.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:30 PM Street Scene (1931)
A husband's violent reaction becomes the talk of the neighborhood when he catches his cheating wife in the act.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

TCM Primetime: TCM Spotlight: Disaster Films

8:00 PM The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Four scientists work frantically to eradicate a deadly space virus in this gripping 1971 thriller.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson
Runtime: 131 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC:

10:15 PM On the Beach (1959)
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:45 AM The Omega Man (1971)
A scientist who believes he is the only human to survive a worldwide bacteriological war unharmed attempts to save humanity by developing a curative serum from his own blood in this frightening vision of a post-apocalyptic near future.
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

2:30 AM The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:15 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An army of dead bodies comes to life and terrorizes a group of friends trapped inside a rural farmhouse.
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y