TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 17: 31 Days of Oscar - The Desert/Nuclear Fears

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

31 Days of Oscar - Students and Teachers (continued)

12:00 AM Blackboard Jungle (1955)
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


1:45 AM Canary Row (1950)
Tweety Bird is spotted inside the Broken Arms Hotel by Sylvester the Cat.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
In this musical remake, a conservative boys' school teacher falls in love with an actress.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:45 AM Good News (1947)
A football hero falls in love with his French tutor.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Days of Oscar - The Desert

6:30 AM The Desert Song (1943)
A man leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:30 AM The Wind and the Lion (1975)
An Arab chief triggers an international incident when he kidnaps an American widow and her children.
Dir: John Milius. Cast: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



10:45 AM Morocco (1930)
A sultry cabaret singer falls hard for a Foreign Legionnaire.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg Cast: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



12:30 PM Road to Morocco (1942)
Two castaways get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they're caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:00 PM Sahara (1943)
An international platoon fights off Nazis in World War II Africa.
Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:45 PM Khartoum (1966)
In the Sudan in 1884, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi.
Dir: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon Cast: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Action Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:05 PM From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (1954)
A Warner Bros. cartoon episode with Ralph Phillips and his daydreaming fantasies. Ralph fights math problems on the chalkboard and becomes part of the pony express.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc, Dick Beals, Bea Benaderet
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:15 PM Them! (1954)
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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TCM Primetime: 31 Days of Oscar - Nuclear Fears

8:00 PM On the Beach (1959)
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:30 PM The China Syndrome (1979)
A TV reporter investigates the goings on in a shoddy nuclear power plant and ends up against more than she bargained for.
Dir: James Bridges Cast: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Lewis Arquette, Michael Douglas
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



12:45 AM Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Fearful that the Russians are fluoridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper unleashes a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets, and a frantic President and Joint Chiefs of Staff must somehow find a way to stop it.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:30 AM Seven Days to Noon (1950)
A scientist threatens to detonate a nuclear warhead if the nation will not halt arms research.
Dir: John Boulting Cast: Barry Jones, Andre Morell
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N



TCM Early Morning: 31 Days of Oscar - On Stage

4:15 AM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Runtime: 176 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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