TCM Schedule for Saturday, February 20 --- 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: Prime Time Lineup

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20 Saturday



6:00 AM Julius Caesar (1953)
An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-121 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

8:15 AM The Night Of The Iguana (1964)
A defrocked priest surrenders to the sins of the flesh in a Mexican hotel. Cast: Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner. Dir: John Huston. BW-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:19 AM Short Film: Now You See It (1947)
C-9 mins,

10:30 AM Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest. Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis. Dir: Mike Nichols. BW-131 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties. Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle. Dir: Elia Kazan. C-124 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution. Cast: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

6:00 PM 2010 (1984)
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter. Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea. Dir: Peter Hyams. C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: Prime Time Lineup

8:00 PM Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)
A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr. Dir: Steven Spielberg. C-137 mins, TV-MA, CC

10:30 PM The Goodbye Girl (1977)
A dancer discovers her runaway boyfriend has sublet her apartment to an aspiring actor. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-111 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

12:30 AM Chapter Two (1980)
A widower risks his heart when he's drawn to a young actress. Cast: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna. Dir: Robert Moore. C-126 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM Comes a Horseman (1978)
Rival ranchers battle over oil rights. Cast: Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards, Jr. Dir: Alan J. Pakula. C-119 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 AM Short Film: Kings Of The Turf (1941)
C-10 mins,

5:00 AM Period Of Adjustment (1962)
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems. Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton. Dir: George Roy Hill. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

[CBHagman]

1. "The Goodbye Girl" brings a lot of happy memories.

Marsha Mason, at the time married to playwright/screenwriter Neil Simon, stars opposite Richard Dreyfuss, playing a strugglng actor cast in what is possibly the world's worst-ever staging of Richard III.