TCM Schedule for Thurs, Jan 22, 2026: Mysteries (Hildegarde Withers-Miss Marple) / Star of the Month, Jean Arthur

Fictional character Hildegarde Withers is a school teacher and amateur crime-solver in several novels, short stories and films. She was created by American mystery author Stuart Palmer (1905–1968). Miss Marple is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie. An amateur consulting detective, she is one of Christie's best-known characters.

DAYTIME (EST)

6:00 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong

7:15 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with police when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher's murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot

8:30 AM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane

9:45 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
A schoolteacher matches wits with police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer

11:00 AM The Plot Thickens (1936)
A schoolteacher suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.

12:15 PM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord

1:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, an elderly sleuth takes a job as a maid to find clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow

3:00 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson

4:30 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell

6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
A department store owner goes undercover as an employee to thwart union activists.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

10:00 PM The More the Merrier (1943)
The World War II housing shortage brings three people together for an unlikely romance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn

12:00 AM A Foreign Affair (1948)
A prim Congresswoman gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund

2:15 AM The Impatient Years (1944)
A feuding couple re-creates their courtship in hopes of falling back in love.
Dir: Irving Cummings Cast: Jean Arthur, Lee Bowman, Charles Coburn

4:00 AM Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
A man-shy fashion editor pretends to be married until a suitor claims to be her husband.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn