TCM Schedule for Saturday 12/13/25 - Dick Van Dyke 100th birthday; "Mary Poppins" TCM premiere!

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DAY AT A GLANCE

- TCM PRIMETIME
ACTOR / DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER GUEST
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Big Picture, The (1989)
TCM LATE NIGHT: DARK COMEDY
Player, The (1992)
Saturday, December 13
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
Saint Strikes Back, The (1939)
Mystery Mountain Ch. 12:
The Judgment of Tarzan (1934) (TCM Premiere)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
They're Always Caught (1938) (short)
100TH BIRTHDAY: DICK VAN DYKE
Bye Bye Birdie (1963) (Musical Matinee)
Mary Poppins (1964) (TCM Premiere)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
- TCM LATE AFTERNOON: DOCUMENTARY
Power of Film Episode 6: Love and Meaning, The
(2023)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE
- ROSIE PEREZ
Killer's Kiss (1955)
Harder They Fall, The (1956)
- NOIR ALLEY
Cash on Demand (1961)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: 1960'S DRAMAS
Young Runaways, The (1968)
Big Cube, The (1969)

FULL SCHEDULE

11:30 PM This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
A filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world's loudest rock band.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael Mckean
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


1:15 AM The Big Picture (1989)
A comedy about an up-and-coming filmmaker.
Dir: Christopher Guest Cast: Jim Pollack, Robert Lucas, Buddy Garion
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:


3:15 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

6:00 AM Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Dir: Charles Martin Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:15 AM The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM The Judgment of Tarzan (1934)
The 12th and final chapter of the Mystery Mountain 1934 serial. Railroad detective Ken Williams is dispatched to catch the mysterious Rattler, who is disrupting construction of a new railroad line and interfering with a stagecoach line run by Jane Corwin. The Rattler remains a mystery with his skill at disguising himself to look like other people.
Dir: Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason Cast: Ken Maynard, Verna Hillie, Syd Saylor
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC:


10:00 AM Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
The jungle king braves a lost prehistoric world to obtain malaria serum for the Allies.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:30 AM They're Always Caught (1938)
This short film shows the role a crime laboratory plays in the solving of criminal investigations.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Stanley Ridges, John Eldredge, Louis Jean Heydt
Runtime: 22 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
When a major rock 'n' roll star arrives in a small Iowa town for a contest, a local songwriter tries to get him to record one of his songs.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Maureen Stapleton
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM Mary Poppins (1964)
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
Runtime: 139 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: N


4:30 PM Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
An eccentric inventor uses his flying car to free a kingdom of children from oppression.
Dir: Ken Hughes Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
Runtime: 145 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:15 PM The Power of Film Episode 6: Love and Meaning (2023)
Although it’s often said that in order to succeed, a Hollywood film has to have a happy ending, when you look at the most memorable love stories it’s astonishing how many of them end with the separation or death of one or both lovers. Often, the paradox underlying the film helps explain why they stick in our memories.
Dir: Laura Gabbert Cast: Howard Suber
Runtime: 40 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Killer's Kiss (1955)
When he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:30 PM The Harder They Fall (1956)
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 AM Cash on Demand (1961)
A man disguised as a bank insurance inspector enters a London bank and robs it with ingenious "gentlemanly" techniques.
Dir: Quentin Lawrence Cast: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM The Young Runaways (1968)
Three teenage runaways leave home for life in the big city for a variety of reasons. Fortunately, a kind soul offers the teens refuge in his home.
Dir: Arthur Dreifuss Cast: Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Lloyd Bochner
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:


4:00 AM The Big Cube (1969)
LSD almost ruins the life of a former actress and her stepdaughter.
Dir: Tito Davison Cast: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y