Welcome to What to Watch, the weekly series in which I attempt to control your viewing habits!

The following are my recommendations of classics on cable this week, as well as a few streaming recs and the films that I hope to watch this week. (The “new to me” films I’m interested in are marked with an asterisk, as usual.) All times are in EST and subject to change.

April 3

12:15 am on TCM – The Graduate (1967)
2:15 am on TCM – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
4:50 am on FMC – The Man Who Wouldn’t Die (1942)
6:45 am on TCM – The West Point Story (1950)
3:30 pm on TCM – On the Waterfront (1954)
5:30 pm on TCM – Guys and Dolls (1955)

April 4

8:15 am on FMC – The Abominable Snowman (1957)*
9:00 am on TCM – Fire Over England (1937)
6:00 pm on TCM – Goodbye Again (1961)
10:00 pm on TCM – How Green Was My Valley (1941)*

April 5

3:00 am on FMC – Way… Way Out (1966)* – Also airing at 1 pm
7:45 am on TCM – The Vampire Bat (1933)
1:45 pm on TCM – Fast Company (1938)*
8:00 pm on TCM – Mildred Pierce (1945)
10:00 pm on TCM – Stella Dallas (1937)

April 6

9:30 am on TCM – Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
7:00 pm on AMC – The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

April 7

2:00 am on TCM – Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
3:30 am on TCM – Macabre (1958)*
6:00 am on FMC – The Sound and the Fury (1959)
8:00 am on FMC – Claudia (1943)*
8:30 am on TCM – I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)*
11:15 am on FMC – Kiss Them For Me (1957)
1:30 pm on TCM – Cover Girl (1944)
3:30 pm on TCM – Double Indemnity (1944)
8:00 pm on TCM – Spellbound (1945)

April 8

12:00 am on TCM – Blackmail (1929)
6:00 am on FMC – Tales of Manhattan (1942)*
8:00 pm on TCM – Roxie Hart (1942)*
9:30 pm on TCM – Knock On Any Door (1949)

DON DRAPER ALERT: Mad Men episodes (“The Other Woman,” “Commissions and Fees” and “The Phantom”) are playing from 5 am to 7 am followed by a short preview of the new season.

April 9

1:15 am on TCM – Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
1:30 pm on TCM – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
8:00 pm on TCM – My Gal Sal (1942)

And a few streaming recommendations…

Blithe Spirit (1945) – Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime

Invisible Invaders (1959) – Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) – Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime

The Omen (1976) – Available on Netflix