TCM Schedule for Saturday 12/20/25: Christmas Marathon: A Christmas Carol; Going My Way; The Bells of St. Mary's

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DAY AT A GLANCE

CHRISTMAS MARATHON
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
Bundle of Joy (1956)
Bachelor Mother (1939)
Carol for Another Christmas, A (1964)
Saturday, December 20
- TCM DAYTIME
CHRISTMAS MARATHON
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) (6:30 am ET)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Prancer (1989) (TCM Premiere)
3 Godfathers (1949)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Apartment, The (1960)
- TCM PRIMETIME
CHRISTMAS MARATHON
Remember the Night (1940)
We're No Angels (1955)
Lady in the Lake (1947)
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Cover Up (1949)
Curse of the Cat People, The (1944)

FULL SCHEDULE

11:30 PM Bell Book and Candle (1958)
A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unknowing publisher.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:30 AM Bundle of Joy (1956)
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:30 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:30 AM Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 AM On Moonlight Bay (1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, ["Smiling"] Jack Smith
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Prancer (1989)
A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is part of the team that pulls Santa's sleigh. Her hope is to bring it back to health in time for Christmas.
Dir: John D. Hancock Cast: Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N


2:00 PM 3 Godfathers (1949)
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr.
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 PM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:45 PM The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:00 PM We're No Angels (1955)
After escaping Devil's Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 AM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective's viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
A reformed thief tracks down an escaped convict so he can prove the man is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N


3:30 AM Cover Up (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


5:00 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother's life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y