TCM Schedule for Monday September 15, 2025 - Star of the Month: Peter Sellers

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Mystery (especially those of Agatha Christie) dominate daytime.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Murder She Said (1961)
1h 26m | Suspense | 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

7:30 AM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
1h 21m | Suspense | 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

9:00 AM Murder Ahoy (1964)
1h 33m | Suspense | 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

10:45 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
1h 32m | Suspense | TV-14
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Director: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian

12:30 PM The Alphabet Murders (1965)
1h 30m | Suspense | TV-G
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders committed in alphabetical order.
Director: Frank Tashlin. Cast: Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley

2:15 PM Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at
the family mansion.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

4:15 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
1h 35m | Suspense | TV-PG
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley

6:15 PM The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
1h 24m | Suspense | TV-PG
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
Director: Edgar Selwyn. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allen, Lewis Stone

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 flouridating 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.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

10:00 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

12:00 AM Lolita (1962)
2h 33m | Drama | TV-14
A professor finds himself in a struggle of temptation of desire for a young teen nymphet.
Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters

2:45 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-G
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara

4:15 AM Vacation from Marriage (1945)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Director: Alexander Korda. Cast: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns