TCM Highlights: February 2-8 & Full February 2026 Calendar
What To Know
- TCM celebrates Bugs Bunny as Star of the Month with nightly blocks of classic Looney Tunes shorts, featuring Bugs and his iconic costars throughout the first week of February.
- The network also spotlights a variety of classic films and stars, including tributes to John Carradine, Bob Mackie, and screenings of movies like Picnic, A Night at the Opera, Deathtrap, and Which Way is Up?
- TCM plans to continue regularly featuring Looney Tunes shorts in its monthly programming, making the network an ongoing home for these animated classics.
This week, it’s Rabbit Season, as TCM pays tribute to Star of the Month Bugs Bunny. The network will be the ongoing home of classic Looney Tunes shorts, and will feature them regularly in future monthly programming — but this week, you can look forward to a bit of Bugs every night of the week.
And if you’re in the mood for something a bit more down to earth, don’t worry — there’s also a tribute to John Carradine, the 1955 William Holden and Kim Novak drama Picnic, the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera, the twisted Michael Caine/ Christopher Reeve thriller Deathtrap, a primetime tribute to Bob Mackie, Richard Pryor’s Which Way is Up?, and much more.
Monday, February 2
TCM Star of the Month: Bugs Bunny
Warner Bros./Everett Collection
What’s up, Doc? TCM’s Star of the Month is none other than that wascaly wabbit himself, Bugs Bunny. In honor of his trademark wackiness, TCM mixes things up a bit by featuring Bugs (and some of his most ridiculous costars) in primetime and into the late hours every weekday during the first week of February.
Enjoy classic Bugs Bunny cartoons with Elmer Fudd and then Gruesome Gorilla (Feb. 2); Yosemite Sam (Feb. 3); Marvin the Martian and, later, small-time hoods Rocky and Mugsy (Feb. 4); Wile E. Coyote and then Witch Hazel (Feb. 5); and, finally, Daffy Duck (Feb. 6). In addition to these pairings are The Tortoise and Hare Trilogy on Feb. 2, and The Hunting Trilogy with both Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd (Feb. 6).
Other cartoon theme groupings are Mad Science for late night on Feb. 3; Rabbit Rhapsodies in late night on Feb. 4 (where a lot of us learned our classical music); and Once Upon a Time… for late night on Feb. 6, featuring hilarious Bugs send-ups of well-known fairy tales. Between and after the cartoons, TCM also showcases feature films from its vast library that parallel the night’s programming themes, with gorillas, buccaneers, monsters and fairy tale heroes among the subjects.
Daily Lineup
(Red titles are Star of the month airings)
8am Bomba on Panther Island (1950)
9:30am The Lost Volcano (1950)
11am The Hidden City (1950)
12:15pm The Lion Hunters (1951)
1:45pm Elephant Stampede (1951)
3:15pm African Treasure (1952)
4:30pm Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
6pm Safari Drums (1953)
8pm A Wild Hare (1940)
8:20pm Rabbit of Seville (1950)
8:30pm A Night at the Opera (1935)
10:30pm Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
10:50pm Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)
11pm Walk, Don’t Run (1966)
1am Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
1:20am Hurdy Gurdy Hare (1950)
Tuesday, February 3
Adventure!
beginning at 8pm
Everett Collection
Settle in for a night of classic adventure tales (and the Looney Tunes they inspired) with a screening of the Gary Cooper, Robert Preston and Ray Milland classic Beau Geste. Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion, but the real danger in the desert comes from a gem called the “Blue Water.” Will the boys make it through their service with their lives?
Then, sail the high seas with Captain Horatio Hornblower. Gregory Peck plays the titular top-notch Royal Navy captain, who achieves glory on the waves as he outsmarts opponent after opponent, but is tormented by his forbidden love for Lady Barbara.
Daily Lineup
(Red titles are Star of the month airings)
7:45a Dive Bomber (1941)
10a Flying High (1931)
11:30a Central Airport (1933)
12:45p Desperate Journey (1942)
2:45p This Man’s Navy (1945)
4:30p The Lost Squadron (1932)
6p Too Hot to Handle (1938)
8p Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
8:20p The Fair Haired Hare (1951)
8:30p Beau Geste (1939)
10:30p Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
10:50p Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
11p Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
1a Hair Raising Hare (1946)
1:20a Water, Water Every Hare (1952)
1:30a Frankenstein (1931)
Wednesday, February 4
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
beginning at 6:15pm
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
No one is quite who they seem to be in this evening of droids, pod people, and other mysterious doubles. First up, in Westworld (written and directed by blockbuster novelist Michael Crichton!), Richard Benjamin and James Brolin play visitors to an anything-goes android theme park where the robots have decided they’re sick of being used and abused. Telly Savalas costars as a gunslinging droid who runs thrillingly amok.
Then, in Invaders from Mars, the lovely adults of a small town are turned into cold, angry doppelgangers after a flying sauce shows up. What’s happening? Aliens have colonized the ‘burb, and even calling in the military might not help.
Daily Lineup
(Red titles are Star of the month airings)
7:45a Tall Man Riding (1955)
9:15a The Hanging Tree (1959)
11:15a Tension at Table Rock (1956)
1p Black Patch (1957)
2:30p The Train Robbers (1973)
4:15p Firecreek (1968)
6:15p Westworld (1973)
8p Haredevil Hare (1948)
8:20p The Hasty Hare (1952)
8:30p Invaders From Mars (1953)
10:30p Bugs and Thugs (1954)
10:50p Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
11p The Roaring Twenties (1939)
1a A Corny Concerto (1943)
1:20a Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
1:30a Carnegie Hall (1947)
Thursday, February 5
John Carradine Birthday Celebration
beginning at 6:30am
20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy: Everett Collection
Like the Barrymores, the Carradines occupy a notable place among acting families. Patriarch John Carradine — father of actors David (Kung Fu), Keith and Robert, and grandfather of actors Martha Plimpton and Ever Carradine — was born on this day in 1906, and TCM celebrates with a daytime marathon of seven of his early films from 1936 to 1939, airing in chronological order. A few of these showcase Carradine’s long partnership with director John Ford: Mary of Scotland (1936), where the actor plays the Queen of Scots’ private secretary, and the monumental Western Stagecoach (1939). In other film offerings, Carradine portrays Abraham Lincoln in Of Human Hearts (1938); stars with Lucille Ball in an early version of the disaster-film genre, 1939’s Five Came Back; and even appears in a Western-style tale of colonial Australia, 1939’s Captain Fury. All of today’s films are an excellent glimpse into the early honing of Carradine’s celebrated acting prowess.
Daily Lineup
(Red titles are Star of the month airings)
6:30a Mary of Scotland (1936)
9a Captains Courageous (1937)
11a The Last Gangster (1937)
12:30p Of Human Hearts (1938)
2:30p Stagecoach (1939)
4:30p Captain Fury (1939)
6:30p Five Came Back (1939)
7p Operation: Rabbit (1952)
8:20p To Hare Is Human (1956)
8:30p Picnic (1955)
10:30p Baseball Bugs (1947)
10:50p Rabbit Punch (1948)
11p The Brave One (1956)
1a Bewitched Bunny (1954)
1:20a Broomstick Bunny (1956)
1:30a Hamlet (1948)
Friday Feb. 6
Man in the Wilderness
8:30pm
Everett Collection
If you are a fan of 2015’s Oscar-winning The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio, you must see this 1971 version of the same survival story of 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass, starring Richard Harris in the title role (called Zach Bass in this film). With a screenplay by Jack DeWitt, the same writer for the gruesome, and also Harris-starring, A Man Called Horse of a year earlier, the film relates an incident in which Bass, traveling with an expedition in the American Northwest, is mauled by a bear and left by his party to die. He lives, however, and manages to track down his companions for revenge. The film also stars John Huston as expedition leader Captain Henry (based on the historical Gen. Ashley) and was shot over two to three months in Spain in, interestingly, some of the same places as David Lean‘s Doctor Zhivago.
Daily Lineup
(Red titles are Star of the month airings)
8:15a Double Trouble (1967)
10a It! (1967)
11:45a My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
1:30p Ten Little Indians (1965)
3:15p Look in Any Window (1961)
4:45p Door-to-Door Maniac (1961)
6:15p Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965)
8p Rabbit Fire (1951)
8:20p Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
8:30p Man in the Wilderness (1971)
10:30p Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
10:50p Show Biz Bugs (1957)
11p Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
1a Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
1:20a Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
1:30a Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Saturday, February 7
Costume Party
beginning at 8pm
Courtesy Everett Collection
You know Bob Mackie‘s designs from gowns worn by Cher and Carol Burnett (including the famous curtain-rod dress from The Carol Burnett Show‘s “Went With the Wind” sketch), and tonight TCM celebrates the famous fashion designer all night. The evening begins with the TCM premiere of 2024’s Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, which details his six-decade, award-winning career and features interviews with Burnett, Cher, RuPaul, Miley Cyrus, Pink, Bernadette Peters and Mackie himself. Then, take in the 1981 movie Pennies From Heaven, starring Peters and Steve Martin, the costumes for which earned Mackie an Oscar nomination.
Daily Lineup
6:45a Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
8:15a Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
9:30a Holt of the Secret Service (1941)
10a Tarzan’s Peril (1951)
11:30a Men of Steel (1937)
12p Paris Blues (1961)
1:45p Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
4p Deathtrap (1982)
6:15p To Have and Have Not (1944)
8p Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion (2024)
10p Pennies From Heaven (1981)
12a Vice Squad (1953)
1:45a Two Minute Warning (1976)
3:45a The Omega Man (1971)
Sunday, February 8
Black History Month: Directed by Michael Schultz, Part 2
beginning at 8pm
Everett Collection
This second and final night focusing on the films of groundbreaking Black director Michael Schultz begins with the TCM premiere of another 1977 Richard Pryor vehicle, Which Way Is Up?, in which the actor plies his comedic skills in three different roles. Following this is 1985’s Krush Groove, a story loosely based on the genesis of pioneering record label Def Jam Recordings. Starring actor Blair Underwood in his feature film debut as producer Russell Walker, the film also features appearances by musicians Sheila E. (as a love interest), Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys and New Edition. Enjoy this entertaining snapshot of the early days of hip-hop.
Daily Lineup
6a The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
8a Deep Valley (1947)
10a Vice Squad (1953)
11:45a Twice Blessed (1945)
1:15p The Big Store (1941)
2:45p The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
4:30p Gay Purr-ee (1962)
6p Ninotchka (1939)
8p Which Way Is Up? (1977)
10p Krush Groove (1985)
12a Within Our Gates (1920)
1:30a Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
3a Metis (2020)
4:45a Maitresse (1975)
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