TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 8th: PRIME TIME FEATURE: Richard Harris

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We've got wholesome family drama, musicals, one provocative monarch, Red Skelton's antics, and of course the pre-Dumbledore Richard Harris.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008.

12:00am Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas. Dir: George Cukor. BW-116 mins, TV-G


The director with his leading ladies

2:00am 42nd Street (1933)
The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who goes on for the injured star.
Cast: Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-89 mins, TV-G

3:41am Short Film: From The Vaults: Garbo Festival (2000)
BW-3 mins

3:45am Queen Christina (1933)
Romantic tale of the 17th-century Swedish queen and her romance with a Spanish diplomat.
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. BW-99 mins, TV-G


5:30am Festival of Shorts #20 (1999)
Animals in movies are the focus of these shorts, which include Famous Movie Dogs, Hollywood Scout and The Horse With the Human Mind.
BW-27 mins

6:00am MGM Parade Show #4 (1955)
George Murphy tours Lake Metro, where "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Show Boat" were shot, and introduces a clip from "Good News." These clips feature June Allyson and Peter Lawford.
BW-26 mins, TV-G

6:30am Hullabaloo (1940)
A radio star creates a national panic when he announces a Martian invasion.
Cast: Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Jr. Dir: Edwin L. Marin. BW-78 mins, TV-G

8:00am Panama Hattie (1942)
A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.
Cast: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Lena Horne. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-80 mins, TV-G

9:30am Ship Ahoy (1942)
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
Cast: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr. Dir: Edward Buzzell. BW-95 mins, TV-G

11:15am Du Barry Was A Lady (1943)
A night club employee dreams he's Louis XV, and the star he idolizes is his lady love.
Cast: Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. C-101 mins, TV-G

1:00pm Meet The People (1944)
A fading stage star tries to revive her career by taking a job in a shipyard.
Cast: Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien. Dir: Charles Reisner. BW-100 mins, TV-G

2:45pm Two Girls And A Sailor (1944)
Singing sisters create a World War II canteen and become rivals for the same man.
Cast: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-124 mins, TV-G

5:00pm Show-Off, The (1946)
A man's loud-mouthed bumbling almost ruins his new wife's family.
Cast: Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-83 mins, TV-G

6:30pm Merton Of The Movies (1947)
A star-struck hick goes to Hollywood to become a star.
Cast: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame. Dir: Robert Alton. BW-82 mins, TV-G


What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: RICHARD HARRIS

8:00pm Juggernaut (1974)
Two demolitions experts race the clock to find and disarm a set of bombs placed on an ocean liner at sea.
Cast: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Anthony Hopkins. Dir: Richard Lester. C-110 mins, TV-MA

I remember seeing Juggernaut in the theater when it first came out and remember seeing Anthony Hopkins listed in the opening credits, though I had no idea which actor he was.

It's your basic ticking time bomb story, complete with moments when it's unclear which wire the explosives experts ought to cut. Be ready to claw your sofa cushions in suspsense.


10:00pm Major Dundee (1965)
Cavalry misfits cross the Mexican border to destroy an Indian outpost.
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-136 mins, TV-PG



12:30am Hawaii (1966)
Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands fight nature, disease and their own passions.
Cast: Max von Sydow, Julie Andrews, Richard Harris. Dir: George Roy Hill. C-161 mins, TV-14