TCM Schedule for Sunday June 28, 2026 - 100th Birthday: Director Mel Brooks

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(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
1h 46m | Adventure | TV-14
A scheming seductress plots to make herself queen of Egypt.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin

8:00 AM The Prodigal (1955)
1h 54m | Epic | TV-PG
Biblical story of a young man led astray by an evil priestess.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern

10:00 AM Stolen Face (1952)
1h 12m | Drama | TV-PG
A plastic surgeon decides to fix a convict's badly scarred face--with an operation to make her look like a doppelganger of the woman he loves.
Director: Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell

12:00 PM Marty (1955)
1h 34m | Romance | TV-PG
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Director: Delbert Mann. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti

2:30 PM The Twelve Chairs (1970)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-PG
A fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella

4:15 PM The Producers (1967)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-14
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn

6:00 PM Spaceballs (1987)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-MA
Rogue space merchant Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf, must stop the evil
Dark Helmet from stealing a planet's air supply.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, John Candy

8:00 PM Blazing Saddles (1974)
1h 33m | Western | TV-MA
A corrupt State Attorney tries to drive townspeople off of valuable land by appointing the first Black sheriff to the town, thinking the racist townsfolk will move away but the sheriff sets out to win the town over.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

10:00 PM Young Frankenstein (1974)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-14
A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein sets out to make a man.
Director: Mel Brooks. Cast: Terry Garr, Cloris Leachman, Gene Wilder

12:00 AM The Iron Mask (1929)
1h 45m | Adventure | TV-G
D'Artagnan comes to the rescue when the evil Count De Rochefort tries to replace King Louis XIV with his twin brother, in this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas story. The last silent film of Douglas Fairbanks.
Director: Allan Dwan. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte

2:00 AM The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
Ouyang Feng is having a secret affair with his cousin, the Queen Consort of Jinlun. To prevent the King from finding out about their relationship, the pair decide to murder the King and steal the royal seal to take over the kingdom. A parody of the novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes."
Director: Jeffrey Lau. Cast: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

4:00 AM Chungking Express (1994)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-14
Two Hong Kong cops struggle with loneliness and heartbreak after being
dumped by their girlfriends.
Director: Wong Kar Wai. Cast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wang

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1. I came upon the Producers today and forgot how funny it was !

Now I can’t turn off TCM. Watched Spaceballs and Blazing saddles countless times and still find things I missed that makes me laugh. Even though I have the DVD collection of all of Mel Brooks movies I got hooked watching on TCM!