TCM Schedule for Sunday January 1, 2023 - Space Comedies

The new year kicks off with an evening of comedies set in and near outer space.

(all times Eastern)

6:45 am One Way Passage (1932)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
Director: Tay Garnett. Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline Macmahon

8:00 am The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
1h 33m | Musical | TV-G
True story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.
Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver

9:45 am The Philadelphia Story (1940)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-G
Tabloid reporters crash a society marriage.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart

11:45 am The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
1h 28m | Drama | TV-PG
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

1:30 pm Singin' in the Rain (1952)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Director: Gene Kelly. Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'connor, Debbie Reynolds

3:30 pm North by Northwest (1959)
2h 16m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

6:00 pm In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1h 49m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

8:00 pm Spaceballs (1987)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-MA
Only a rogue space merchant can stop an evil dictator from stealing a planet's air supply.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast:Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy

10:00 pm The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
Roy Fleming is a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut.
Director: Edward J. Montagne. Cast: Don Knotts, Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman

12:00 am Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
1h 17m | Comedy | TV-G
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars.
Director: Charles Lamont. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard

1:30 am Have Rocket--Will Travel (1959)
1h 16m | Comedy | TV-PG
Three janitors stumble onto the formula for rocket fuel.
Director: David Lowell Rich. Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita

3:00 am The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A small European nation launches a space program using the local wine as rocket fuel.
Director: Richard Lester. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins

4:30 am Untamed Youth (1957)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
When they're put in a small-town jail, two sisters fight to expose prison corruption.
Director: Howard W. Koch. Cast: Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell