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Gregory Peck goes to war tonight; plus a slew of Sci-fi films by day.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM Manster, The (1962) A mad scientist turns a reporter into a two-headed killer. Cast: Peter Dynely, Jane Hylton, Tetsuo Nakamura. Dir: George P. Breakstone, Kenneth G. Crane. BW-73 mins, TV-PG
7:15 AM Killer Shrews, The (1959) A maniacal scientist creates a formula that turns your average shrew into a giant, man-killing beast. Cast: James Best, Ingrid Goude, Baruch Lumet. Dir: Ray Kellogg. BW-68 mins, TV-PG
8:30 AM Wild, Wild Planet, The (1965) Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders. Cast: Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero. Dir: Anthony Dawson. C-94 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
10:15 AM War of the Planets (1965) Martians with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth. Cast: Tony Russel, Franco Nero, Massimo Serato. Dir: Antonio Margheriti. C-97 mins, TV-PG
12:00 PM Green Slime, The (1969) A mysterious fungus invades a space station and turns the inhabitants into monsters. Cast: Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi. Dir: Kinji Fukasaku. C-90 mins, TV-14
1:45 PM Soylent Green (1973) A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food. Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young. Dir: Richard Fleischer. C-97 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
3:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution. Cast: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
6:00 PM 2010 (1984) In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a U.S.-Soviet crew investigates a mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter. Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea. Dir: Peter Hyams. C-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow. Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, James Robertson Justice. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-117 mins, TV-G
10:00 PM Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) A World War II Army psychiatrist tries to help his battle-shocked patients. Cast: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson. Dir: David Miller. C-126 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
12:15 AM Guns of Navarone, The (1961) A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy a pair of Nazi guns. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. Dir: J. Lee-Thompson. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 AM Purple Plain, The (1954) A blinded Canadian flier has to find his way through World War II Burma. Cast: Gregory Peck, Maurice Denham, Win Min Than. Dir: Robert Parrish. C-102 mins, TV-PG
4:45 AM On the Beach (1959) After a nuclear war, U.S. sailors stationed in Australia deal with the end of civilization. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire. Dir: Stanley Kramer. BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
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