TCM Schedule for Monday June 13, 2022 - Special Theme: LGBTQ Directors

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Daytime has mad scientists of all sorts; nighttime has more LGBTQ directors, this time from the 60's and 70's.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
1h 1m | Comedy | TV-G
A gambler sells his body to science to pay his debts.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat

7:15 am Devil Bat (1940)
1h 9m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A mad scientist trains killer bats to respond to a special scent.
Director: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'brien

8:30 am Spook Busters (1946)
1h 8m | Comedy | TV-G
When they set themselves up as ghost hunters, the Bowery Boys tangle with a mad scientist.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille

9:45 am Master Minds (1949)
1h 4m | Comedy | TV-G
The Bowery Boys take on a mad scientist when one of them develops the ability to predict the future.
Director: Jean Yarbrough. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

11:00 am Forbidden Planet (1956)
1h 38m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PGA group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
Director: Fred Mcleod Wilcox. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen

12:45 pm Voyage to the Sky (1937)
Documentary | TV-G
An imaginary voyage through space that shows Earthlings the wonders of the solar system.
Director: Jean Painleve.

1:00 pm The Invisible Boy (1957)
1h 25m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-G
A boy's robot playmate is taken over by aliens.
Director: Herman Hoffman. Cast: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster

2:45 pm Simon (1980)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-PG
Scientists brainwash a man into believing he's from outer space.
Director: Marshall Brickman. Cast: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton

4:30 pm Trog (1970)
1h 33m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A scientist tries to protect a caveman brought back from suspended animation.
Director: Freddie Francis. Cast: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay

6:15 pm Deadly Friend (1986)
1h 32m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-14
A boy tries to save his friend by implanting robotic microchips in her brain.
Director: Wes Craven. Cast: Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Anne Twomey

8:00 pm A Taste of Honey (1961)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-14
Deserted by her mother, a pregnant teen turns to a gay friend for help.
Director: Tony Richardson. Cast: Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens

9:45 pm What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
1h 41m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-14
After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.
Director: Curtis Harrington. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver

11:30 pm Gay Girls Riding Club Shorts
The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone (1963)
Always on Sunday (1962)
Spy on the Fly (1967)
What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963)

1:30 am Private Parts (1972)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-MA
A young girl moves into her estranged aunt's hotel when she begins to suspect that a guest was murdered.
Director: Paul Bartel. Cast: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio

3:00 am Female Trouble (1975)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-MA
A fictitious biography of Dawn Davenport, a headline-seeking criminal.
Director: John Waters. Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

4:45 am Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-MA
An elderly German woman defies convention by marrying a much younger Moroccan immigrant.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Irm Hermann