TCM Schedule for Fri, Mar 6, 2026: 31 Days of Oscar (Shores / Baseball: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham)
DAYTIME (listings EST)
6:30 AM Min and Bill (1930)
Two crusty waterfront characters try to protect their daughter from a terrible secret.
Dir: George Hill Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan
7:45 AM Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
A glamorous ghost helps a henpecked husband save his wife from gold-digging friends.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke
9:15 AM Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
An underwater "Romeo and Juliet" drama.
Dir: Robert D. Webb Cast: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland
11:15 AM Woman in the Dunes (1964)
An entomologist vacations with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for a village.
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Cast: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui
2:00 PM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
4:00 PM Summer of '42 (1971)
A high school student falls in love, for the first time, with a World War II bride.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
6:00 PM The Sandpiper (1965)
Sparks fly between a single mom and an Episcopalian headmaster at her son's school.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
PRIME TIME. LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM Field of Dreams (1989)
A "voice" inspires an Iowa farmer to transform part of his farm into a baseball field.
Dir: Phil Alden Robinson Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones
10:00 PM Bull Durham (1988)
A struggling minor league pitcher is transformed by a baseball groupie seductress and a veteran catcher.
Dir: Ron Shelton Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Max Patkin
12:00 AM Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Battery mates cope with terminal illness during a baseball season.
Dir: John D. Hancock Cast: Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia
1:45 AM The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Baseball legend Lou Gehrig faces a crippling disease at the height of his success.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
4:00 AM The Stratton Story (1949)
Bio of Monty Stratton, baseball player who fought to continue his career after losing a leg.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan