TCM Schedule for Monday April 21, 2025 - Star of the Month: Red Skelton

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Daytime features some rather lethal couples.

(all times Eastern)

6:45 AM Obsession (1949)
1h 36m | Crime | TV-14
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife's lover in an acid bath.
Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne

8:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
1h 53m | Crime | TV-PG
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

10:30 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
1h 46m | Crime | TV-14
Two very-much-in-love con artists--a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con--prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Director: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lobianco, Mary Jane Higby

12:30 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
1h 56m | Drama | TV-PG
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Director: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey

2:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
1h 45m | Suspense | TV-PG
A woman recovering from mental problems witnesses a murder, but nobody believes her.
Director: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw

4:15 PM Deathtrap (1982)
1h 55m | Comedy | TV-14
A blocked playwright plots to kill a beginner and steal his script.
Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon

6:15 PM Badlands (1973)
1h 35m | Crime | TV-14
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana's badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates

8:00 PM Bathing Beauty (1944)
1h 41m | Musical | TV-G
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone

10:00 PM Neptune's Daughter (1949)
1h 33m | Musical | TV-G
Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.
Director: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban

11:45 PM Texas Carnival (1951)
1h 17m | Comedy | TV-G
A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel

1:15 AM Three Little Words (1950)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
Musical biography of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, who surreptitiously helped each other out of jams.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen

3:15 AM A Southern Yankee (1948)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-PG
A bellboy masquerades as a spy and lands behind enemy lines during the Civil War.
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy

5:00 AM Watch the Birdie (1951)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Director: Jack Donohue. Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller