TCM Schedule for Monday November 29, 2021 - Dance Numbers

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Daytime features lady detectives; primetime has two classics from Bob Fosse plus some Broadway melodies.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
10m | Short | TV-G
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case.
Director: Richard Bare. Cast: Charles Horvath, Art Gilmore, Howard Mitchell

6:15 am Murder Most Foul (1964)
1h 30m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell

8:00 am Murder at the Gallop (1963)
1h 21m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson

9:30 am Murder Ahoy (1964)
1h 33m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell

11:15 am Murder She Said (1961)
1h 26m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

12:45 pm Lured (1947)
1h 42m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn

2:45 pm Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
1h | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman's disappearance.
Director: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson

4:00 pm Deadline at Dawn (1946)
1h 23m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.

5:30 pm Wanted! Jane Turner (1936)
1h 6m | Crime | TV-PG
A postal detective tracks the gang that robbed a mail truck and killed the driver.
Director: Edward Killy. Cast: Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Judith Blake

6:45 pm The Big Steal (1949)
1h 11m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone e...
Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix

8:00 pm Cabaret (1972)
2h 4m | Musical | TV-14
A young writer gets mixed up with a pleasure-loving singer in the decadent world of 1930s Berlin.
Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey

10:15 pm All That Jazz (1979)
2h 3m | Adaptation | TV-MA
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking

12:30 am Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
A vaudeville team breaks up when both men fall for the same gorgeous hoofer.
Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy

2:30 am Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
1h 50m | Musical | TV-G
Backstage problems jeopardize a Broadway musical.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy

4:30 am Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor