TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 4: Westerns/Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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

TCM Daytime: Westerns

6:15 AM Riding Shotgun (1954)
A stagecoach guard is mistaken for a member of a gang of outlaws.
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:45 AM Tall Man Riding (1955)
Larry Madden is a vengeful cowboy who returns to the town that once shunned him. He's set his sights on destroying the ranch owner who publicly whipped him years earlier. What Madden doesn't count on is the love he still has for the rancher's daughter
Dir: Lesley Selander Cast: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N

9:15 AM The Hanging Tree (1959)
A doctor saves a man from a hanging and then tries to run his life.
Dir: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman Cast: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

11:15 AM Tension at Table Rock (1956)
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
Dir: Charles Marquis Warren Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:00 PM Black Patch (1957)
When the town marshal, a former Civil War veteran, is accused of murdering a former friend turned bank robber for the money, the town is thrown into a moral dilemma.
Dir: Allen H. Miner Cast: George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Tom Pittman
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:30 PM The Train Robbers (1973)
A bandit's widow enlists a famed gunman to return the gold her husband stole.
Dir: Burt Kennedy Cast: John Wayne, Rod Taylor, Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

4:15 PM Firecreek (1968)
An aging sheriff, who vows for peaceful resolutions, is put to the test when a gang of hoodlums ride into his town intent on taking it over.
Dir: Vincent McEveety Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

6:15 PM Westworld (1973)
A high-tech amusement park for adults features three recreated historical environments - Medieval World, Roman World, and West World - populated by highly realistic androids programmed to indulge the whims of every high-paying guest. The main attraction of West World is the Gunslinger - a robot programmed to start duels ...
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

TCM Primetime: Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny

8:00 PM Haredevil Hare (1948)
Bugs Bunny is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (Marvin the Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:10 PM The Hasty Hare (1952)
Marvin the Martian and his dog K-9 are assigned to bring back one Earth creature for study. They capture Bugs Bunny, but Bugs coaxes the Martian dog into setting him free.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:20 PM Hare-way to the Stars (1958)
Suffering from a rabbit-hangover, Bugs Bunny accidentally climbs onto a rocket ship parked directly over his hole. He's taken to Marvin the Martian's home where he steals explosives Marvin was planning to use to blow up the Earth.
Dir: Chuck Jones Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:30 PM Invaders from Mars (1953)
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Dir: William Cameron Menzies Cast: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:30 PM Bugs and Thugs (1954)
When Bugs Bunny calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:40 PM Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
Bugs Bunny finds that gangsters Rocky and Mugsy have chosen his new abode, a condemned building, as their hideout. Bugs manipulates them into attacking each other to prove that crime doesn't pay.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:50 PM The Unmentionables (1963)
In a spoof of TV's "Untouchables," Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Mess" (Bugs Bunny) through the ACME cereal company.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc, Ralph James, Julie Bennett
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:00 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:00 AM A Corny Concerto (1943)
Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
Dir: Robert Clampett Cast: Arthur Q. Bryan, Robert Clampett
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:10 AM Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
When Bugs Bunny attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:20 AM Baton Bunny (1959)
Bugs Bunny conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.
Dir: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 AM Carnegie Hall (1947)
A woman pushes her son to pursue a career as a classical pianist.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Marsha Hunt, William Prince, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:00 AM The Great Waltz (1972)
Musical biography of Johann Strauss, the man known as "The Waltz King."
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Horst Buchholz, Mary Costa, Rossano Brazzi
Runtime: 135 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y