TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 3: Pilots in Action/Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny (continued)

1:00 AM Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
Mrs. Gorilla want to adopt Bugs Bunny; Mr. Gorilla only wants to chase him.
Dir: Robert McKimson Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:10 AM Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950)
When the entrepreneurial Bugs Bunny reads a classified ad for a hurdy gurdy and monkey, he decides to go into the music business.
Dir: Robert McKimson Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:20 AM Apes of Wrath (1959)
The drunken stork loses his baby ape for Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Ape on a jungle island. So, he knocks out Bugs Bunny and delivers him instead.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 AM King Kong (1933)
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York where he wreaks havoc.
Dir: Merian C. Cooper Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:30 AM Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Showmen try to exploit a giant ape raised by an orphan.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Pilots in Action

5:15 AM Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)
Fiddling legend Tommy Jarrell shares his gifts with a new generation.
Dir: Les Blank, Les Conway, Alice Gerrard Cast: Tommy Jarrell, Julie Jarrell Lyons, Togie McGee
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


6:00 AM Bombardier (1943)
Military officers compete for the same woman while training pilots for war.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y



7:45 AM Dive Bomber (1941)
A crusading scientist fights to prevent bomber pilots from blacking out.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



10:00 AM Flying High (1931)
A hare-brained inventor invents a new flying machine but can't figure out how to land it.
Dir: Charles F. Riesner Cast: Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat O'Brien
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:30 AM Central Airport (1933)
Two brothers, daring pilots in a traveling aerial circus, compete for everything -- including the heart of a lovely female skydiver.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Grant Mitchell
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: N



12:45 PM Desperate Journey (1942)
American pilots stranded in Germany during World War II fight their way to freedom.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:45 PM This Man's Navy (1945)
Two Navy vets compete to see whose son is the bigger hero.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, James Gleason
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



4:30 PM The Lost Squadron (1932)
Veteran flyers from World War I find work as movie stuntmen.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 PM Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Rival newsreel photographers vie for scoops and a beautiful lady flyer.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



TCM Primetime: Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny

8:00 PM Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
A western showdown of Bugs Bunny versus Yosemite Sam.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Michael Maltese
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:10 PM The Fair Haired Hare (1951)
After Yosemite Sam builds his house over Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, the two of them try to determine who owns the land through the courts and other less legal means.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:20 PM Sahara Hare (1955)
Yosemite Sam, riding a camel that won't whoa, chases Bugs Bunny into a French Foreign-Legion post.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:30 PM Beau Geste (1939)
Three brothers in the French foreign legion fight off murderous Arabs and a sadistic sergeant.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:30 PM Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
Bugs Bunny infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:40 PM Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs Bunny signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:50 PM Captain Hareblower (1954)
Bugs Bunny will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:00 PM Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:00 AM Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs Bunny through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:10 AM Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc, John T. Smith
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:20 AM Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964)
When Bugs Bunny crosses paths with the Tasmanian Devil once again, he poses as a doctor to trick the Devil into thinking that he's sicker than he really is.
Dir: Robert McKimson Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 AM Frankenstein (1931)
A crazed scientist creates a living being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:00 AM The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
A retelling of Shelley's famous novel, but told in flashbacks from the point of view of Dr. Frankenstein, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife in the climactic confrontation with the monster.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:30 AM Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Baron Frankenstein blackmails a brother and sister into helping him with a brain transplant.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y