TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 31: Summer Under the Stars: Peter Sellers [View all]

The man. The characters. The disguises. The mayhem!

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

1:15 AM
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
1h 26m | Musical | TV-G
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone

3:00 AM
April Showers (1948)
1h 34m | Musical | TV-G
A family vaudeville act is torn apart by the father's drinking problem.
Director
James V. Kern
Cast
Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda

4:45 AM
This Marriage Business (1938)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
A reporter turns a small-town clerk into a hero and then falls for his daughter.
Director
Christy Cabanne
Cast
Victor Moore, Allan Lane, Vicki Lester

6:00 AM
Your Past Is Showing (1958)
1h 32m | Crime | TV-PG
Bumbling blackmail subjects join forces to do in their tormentor.
Director
Mario Zampi
Cast
Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton

8:00 AM
tom thumb (1958)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks.
Director
George Pal
Cast
Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn

10:00 AM
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
1h 23m | Comedy | TV-PG
An impoverished nation declares war on the U.S. hoping to lose and score foreign aid.
Director
Jack Arnold
Cast
Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell

11:30 AM
Only Two Can Play (1961)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-PG
A Welsh librarian fed up with his meager, married existence meets a beautiful woman with whom he tries to consummate an affair.
Director
Sidney Gilliat
Cast
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell

1:30 PM
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-PG
Two poor little rich girls dog the steps of a womanizing pianist.
Director
George Roy Hill
Cast
Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker

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3:30 PM
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-14
A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
Director
Hy Averback
Cast
Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young



5:30 PM
Being There (1979)
2h 10m | Comedy | TV-14
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Director
Hal Ashby
Cast
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: PETER SELLERS

8:00 PM
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-PG
Fearful that the Russians are fluoridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper, commanding officer of the U. S. Air Force base at Burpelson, unleashes a B-52 atomic bomb attack on Russia.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Peter Sellers (in multiple roles), George C Scott, Sterling Hayden



10:00 PM
After the Fox (1966)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A notorious con man poses as a film director to front a major caper.
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Cast
Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland



12:00 AM
Always on Sunday (1962)
TV-PG
Two undertakers have some fun at the beach before it's time go in and punch the clock.
Director
No Director Available
Cast
No Cast Information Available.

12:00 AM
The Party (1968)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-PG
A no-name, bumbling foreigner ends up at a posh Hollywood party and gets in one series of embarrassing pickles after another.
Director
Blake Edwards
Cast
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion



2:00 AM
The Bobo (1967)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
To land a job, an aspiring singer has to seduce a heartless gold digger.
Director
Robert Parrish
Cast
Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi

4:00 AM
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
1h 48m | Comedy
On Dr. Fu Manchu's 186th birthday, someone spills his age-reversing elixir, and the evil doctor sends his minions off to find the ingredients to make more.
Director
Piers Haggard
Cast
Sid Caesar, Clement Harari, Simon Williams