TCM Schedule for Sunday December 21, 2025 - Christmas Marathon (with Kid Fans)

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(all times Eastern)

6:30 AM Hell's Heroes (1930)
1h 5m | Western | TV-PG
Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
Director: William Wyler. Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler

8:00 AM A Christmas Carol (1938)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Director: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart

9:30 AM Room for One More (1952)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-G
New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose adopt several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle

11:30 AM Susan Slept Here (1954)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-PG
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Director: Frank Tashlin. Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis

1:30 PM Desk Set (1957)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-G
An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young

3:30 PM Going My Way (1944)
2h 10m | Musical | TV-G
A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh

5:45 PM The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-G
A liberal priest tries to soften the strict nun running St. Mary's school.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers

8:00 PM Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon

10:00 PM Call Her Savage (1932)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-PG
A Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.
Director: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd

12:00 AM There Ain't No Santa Claus (1926)
22m | Comedy | TV-G
Charley uses the rent money to buy his wife an inexpensive wristwatch for Christmas, which puts him at odds with his miserly landlord.
Director: James Parrot. Cast: Charley Chase, Eugenia Gilbert, Noah Young

12:30 AM Christmas Past (1925)
2h | Silent | TV-G
A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
Director: Charles M. Seay, Frank E. Kleinschmidt, J. Searle Dawley. Cast: Barry O'Moore, Julian Reed, Marc McDermott

2:45 AM Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-MA
A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.
Director: Claude Jutra. Cast: Claude Jutra, Jacques Gagnon, Olivette Thibault

4:30 AM Period of Adjustment (1962)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-PG
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton