Daylight Savings Time briefs

Here in the US, it's time foe the annual spring forward, when clocks advance by one hour. This means that the TCM schedule is once again slightly wonky, since they don't seem to know when to put the time change. (Frankly, I don't think it's that difficult, but that's another story.)

It dawned on me that there's an unintended benefit to having Noir Alley get a Saturday night airing as well as the one at 10:00 AM Sunday, which is that it pretty much starts at midnight between Saturday and Sunday every week and runs two hours. This week, the movie is Ride the Pink Horse, a 101-minute movie that's going to run well over 1:45 once you add in Eddie Muller's extended intro and outro, so it fits well into two hours. That takes us right up to when the clocks go forward an hour in the Eastern time zone.

TCM's schedule page does get it right at first, with a pair of Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple movies airing. The first one is Murder, She Said, which airs at 3:00 AM ET (although it's still 1:00 AM CT) and runs 86 minutes. That's followed by Murder Most Foul, which should begin at 4:30 AM on the east coast, 3:30 AM Central, and 1:30 AM Mountain. But for some reason TCM lists it at 3:30 AM ET. They also say it's a 91-minute movie, but have only put it in a 90-minute time slot. (IMDb lists it as 90 minutes; I don't have a DVD to check the run-time down to the second.) So I'm guessing that after the overnight theme and with the coming attractions, it's going to run a bit into the time slot of the next movie.

And I would like to mention the beginning of the Sunday morning lineup. That ostensibly begins at 6:00 AM, although it's likely to be a minute or two late, with Leslie Howard's 1938 version of Pygmalion. That and a two-reeler get us to 8:00, which is another airing of the excellent documentary on Howard that premiered on TCM a few years back, Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn.