TCM Schedule for Monday February 23, 2026 - Oscar Goes to the Dogs

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Daytime features movies set on islands.

(all times Eastern)

7:30 AM White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
1h 25m | Romance | TV-PG
An alcoholic doctor runs off to Tahiti, where he finds love with a native girl.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson

9:15 AM All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
1h 34m | Adventure | TV-PG
Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth

11:15 AM Gulliver's Travels (1939)
1h 14m | Adventure | Tv-G
An English sailor is washed ashore in the land of Liliput, where everyone is about two inches tall.
Director: Dave Fleischer. Cast: Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross, Robert Bentley

12:45 PM Robinson Crusoe (1954)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-PG
A shipwrecked Englishman fights to survive on a desert island.
Director: Luis Buñuel. Cast: Daniel O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernández, Felipe de Alba

2:30 PM Hawaii (1966)
2h 42m | Drama | TV-MA
An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris

5:15 PM South Pacific (1958)
2h 38m | Musical | TV-G
Two stories set side by side about love and loss set in the wartime tropics. Adaptation of the 1949 stage play.
Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr

8:00 PM Lassie Come Home (1943)
1h 28m | Adventure | TV-G
A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox. Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty

9:45 PM Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-14
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
Director: Daniel Mann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore

11:30 PM The Awful Truth (1937)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-PG
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy

1:15 AM Umberto D. (1952)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A retiree copes with the realities of old age.
Director: Vittorio De Sica. Cast: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari

3:00 AM Sounder (1972)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

5:00 AM Disraeli (1929)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-G
The noted British statesman plays matchmaker for a pair of young lovers.
Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: George Arliss, Joan Bennett, Florence Arliss

[BigmanPigman]

1. I read Sounder as a school assignment

when I was in 4th grade and when I saw the movie I couldn't strop crying. I still can't watch it.....too emotional.