TCM Schedule for Fri, Dec 19, 2025: William Holden/Christmas Marathon Starts

[Auggie]

DAYTIME (EST):

6:00 AM | Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
A mail-order bride finds herself attracted to a handsome drifter.
Dir: Norman Foster | Cast: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum

8:00 AM | Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
The Civil War complicates the Cavalry's battle with Native Americans.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe

10:00 AM | Union Station (1950)
A woman helps railroad police in their search for suspected kidnappers.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald

11:30 AM | Stalag 17 (1953)
A serviceman in a World War II POW camp is suspected of being an informer.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger

1:45 PM | The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
A fighter pilot deals with ambivalence towards war and fear of a dangerous mission.
Dir: Mark Robson | Cast: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March

3:45 PM | The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
An artist falls in love with the prostitute he initially hired to be a model.
Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms

6:00 PM | Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
A Hollywood producer hires a beautiful secretary to keep his screenwriter on track.
Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | Holiday Affair (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman | Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

9:45 PM | The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch | Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan

11:30 PM | Bell Book and Candle (1958)
A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unknowing publisher.
Dir: Richard Quine | Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon

1:30 AM | Bundle of Joy (1956)
A woman is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou

3:30 AM | Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin | Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn

5:00 AM | A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Shop around the corner is a must see classic

Carol for Another Christmas is a Cold War fable using some of the cast members from Doctor Strangelove. It was broadcast once, then unseen until TCM revived it a few years ago.