TCM Schedule for Sunday 17, 2026 - Cher Double Feature

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6:30 AM Forbidden Planet (1956)
1h 38m | Science Fiction | TV-PG
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors. A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen

8:15 AM Kiss Me Kate (1953)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-G
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

10:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
1h 36m | Suspense | TV-PG
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

12:15 PM Humoresque (1946)
2h 3m | Romance | TV-PG
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy neurotic.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant

2:30 PM The Nun's Story (1959)
2h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A young nun is sent to do nursing work in the Belgian Congo, but soon begins to doubt her vows and question a life with the Convent, and instead joins the underground resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans

5:15 PM South Pacific (1958)
2h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A Navy nurse must choose between love and prejudice while serving on an island in the South Pacific during World War II. Adaptation of the 1949 stage musical.
Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr

8:00 PM Silkwood (1983)
2h 11m | Biography | TV-MA
A laborer at a nuclear power plant risks her life to report unsafe practices.
Director: Mike Nichols. Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher

10:30 PM Moonstruck (1987)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-14
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

12:30 AM The Rag Man (1925)
1h 8m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a runaway orphan helps a junk dealer make his fortune.
Director: Edward F. Cline. Cast: Jackie Coogan, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ethel Wales

2:00 AM Fires on the Plain (1959)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-MA
Japanese soldiers abandoned by their command fight to survive the last days of World War II.
Director: Kon Ichikawa. Cast: Eijii Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis

4:00 AM Pigs and Battleships (1961)
1h 48m | Comedy | TV-MA
An comedic look at Japan's relationship to the American military presence.
Director: Shôhei Imamura. Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima