TCM Schedule for Monday September 29, 2025 - Star of the Month: Peter Sellers

Daytime celebrates Silent Movie Day.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
2h 23m | Silent | TV-G
A rebellious Israelite prince out for vengeance crosses paths with the Messiah.
Director: Fred Niblo. Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy

8:30 AM The Big Parade (1925)
2h 22m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a young innocent enlists for World War I service but soon learns the horrors of war.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth

11:15 AM The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
1h 10m | Silent | TV-G
A Russian mutiny triggers revolutionary sentiments around the nation.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein. Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Gomorov

12:30 PM The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
1h 18m | Silent | TV-G
In this film, a severely deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.
Director: Rupert Julian. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry

2:15 PM The Lost World (1925)
1h 4m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a scientist tries to prove the existence of dinosaurs in South America.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt. Cast: Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone

4:00 PM The Freshman (1925)
1h 16m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a naive college boy tries to join the football team after making a fool out of himself.
Director: Sam Taylor. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict

5:30 PM Seven Chances (1925)
57m | Silent | TV-G
To inherit a fortune, a man races to find a bride by 7 p.m.
Director: Buster Keaton. Cast: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards

6:30 PM The Gold Rush (1925)
2h | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a lost soul in the Yukon seeks love and wealth.
Director: Charlie Chaplin. Cast: Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale

8:00 PM The Party (1968)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-PG
A no-name, bumbling foreigner ends up at a posh Hollywood party and gets in one series of embarrassing pickles after another.
Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion

9:45 PM The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
1h 53m | Action | TV-PG
The famous Pink Panther diamond has been stolen from the museum and retired jewel thief Sir Charles Litton is immediately blamed. In danger of being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, Litton reluctantly works with Inspector Jacques Clouseau to find out who the real crook is.
Director: Blake Edwards. Cast: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell

11:45 PM Being There (1979)
2h 10m | Comedy | TV-14
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

2:15 AM There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-MA
A womanizing TV star meets his match in an independent teenager.
Director: Roy Boulting. Cast: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton

4:00 AM I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-14
A henpecked L.A. lawyer escapes into the world of hippies and free love.
Director: Hy Averback. Cast: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young