CBS Sunday Movie

The CBS Sunday Movie (also known at various times as the CBS Sunday Night Movie) is the umbrella title for a made-for-TV and feature film showcase series carried by CBS until the end of the 2005–2006 television season, when it was replaced with drama series. It was the last of the weekly Sunday night movie showcases aired by the Big Three television networks to be canceled, outside of special event premieres and the network's previous run of the Hallmark Hall of Fame film anthology.

On April 7, 2020, as part of schedule changes associated with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television in the United States, CBS announced that it would air feature films under the CBS Sunday Night Movies banner for a five-week event in May 2020, featuring films from corporate sister Paramount Pictures. A sixth week was added to the event to fill the timeslot of the postponed 74th Tony Awards, featuring a sing-along version of Grease.^[1]

In September 2020, CBS announced that the block would return for six additional weeks beginning in October, filling the network's Sunday-night schedule to allow time for its Sunday-night dramas (The Equalizer, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: New Orleans) to resume production.^[2]

Titles

This is a listing of topics pertaining to CBS movies broadcast on television under various umbrella titles.^[1][3]

• Film Theatre of the Air (1941-42, & 1949, Saturday; 1951 and 1953, Tuesday)
• Premiere Playhouse (March–July 1949, Friday; 1949–50, Saturday)
• Budweiser Summer Theatre (1951, Saturday)
• Schlitz Film Firsts^[4] (1951, Friday)
• Summer Cinema (1952, Saturday)
• The CBS Thursday Night Movies^[5] (1965–75)
• The CBS Friday Night Movies^[6] (1966–77)
• The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies (1972–74)
• The CBS Wednesday Night Movies (1977–81)
• The CBS Tuesday Night Movies^[7] (1978–86)
• The CBS Saturday Night Movies^[8] (1981–86)
• CBS Sunday Movie^[9] (1986–2006)
• CBS Tuesday Movie^[10] (1986–2000)
• CBS Wednesday Movie^[11] (1986–2000)
• The CBS Late Movie (1972–89)
• A CBS Special Movie Presentation (1974–2006)
• CBS Sunday Night Movies (2020–present)

Schedules

This list may be incomplete

1981

Date	Movie
March 22	Gone with the Wind

1988

Date	Movie
March 20	Hot Paint

1989

Date	Movie
May 7	Witness
October 8	Mystic Pizza
October 15	The Big Easy

1990

Date	Movie
May 6	The Untouchables
October 1	Night Walk
November 11	Fatal Attraction
November 18	Moonstruck
December 2	The Fatal Image
December 9	Donor

1992

Date	Movie
April 12	Stompin' At The Savoy
April 29	Batman
May 12	With Murder in Mind
September 20	Terror on Track 9
September 27	A House of Secrets and Lies
December 6	A Man Upstairs

1993

Date	Movie
April 11	Steel Magnolias
August 22	Highway Heartbreaker
November 7	Ghost

1994

Date	Movie
May 8	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
July 3	Glory

1995

Date	Movie
January 15	Presumed Innocent
July 2	Nuts
September 10	Only the Lonely

1996

Date	Movie
June 30	For the Boys
July 21	The Godfather Part III
August 11	Dying Young

1997

Date	Movie
February 16	Dave
August 24	The Man Without a Face

1998

Date	Movie
March 22	It Could Happen to You
August 9	Philadelphia
September 13	Goodfellas

1999

Date	Movie
January 3	Sabrina
January 17	Dead Man Walking
May 2	The First Wives Club
July 4	Blue Sky
August 22	To Sir, with Love II

2000

Date	Movie
January 16	Murder at 1600
January 23	Fire Down Below
March 26	Passenger 57
April 23	Michael
September 24	L.A. Confidential
October 1	City of Angels

2001

Date	Movie
January 14	Tomorrow Never Dies
January 21	Absolute Power
February 25	The Mask of Zorro
March 4	Eraser
March 25	Executive Decision
April 15	Deep Impact
June 10	Something to Talk About
June 17	Chance of a Lifetime
June 24	Grace and Glorie
July 1	Bella Mafia
July 8	A Father for Brittany
July 15	To Live Again
July 22	Going Home
July 29	The Staircase
August 19	Tin Cup
November 25	You've Got Mail
December 30	Eraser

2002

Date	Movie
January 6	Entrapment
February 17	The Fugitive
March 31	Analyze This
April 7	The Deep End of the Ocean
April 14	’’The Pilot’s Wife
May 12	Double Jeopardy
June 16	The Negotiator
July 7	A Time to Kill
August 4	Missing Pieces
September 15	Message in a Bottle
November 3	The World Is Not Enough

2003

Date	Movie
March 30	Shanghai Noon
April 6	The Whole Nine Yards
July 6	Wild Wild West
August 3	Instinct
August 17	True Crime
September 14	Out of Sight
October 26	What Women Want
December 28	One True Thing

2004

Date	Movie
January 18	Double Jeopardy
February 29	Rules of Engagement
March 21	Proof of Life
April 11	The Patriot
April 18	Along Came a Spider
June 20	The Cider House Rules
August 22	Pay it Forward
December 26	Ocean's Eleven

2005

Date	Movie
January 2	Behind Enemy Lines
February 20	Stone Cold
February 27	Collateral Damage
April 3	John Q.
April 10	High Crimes
April 17	Don't Say a Word
June 26	Changing Lanes
July 31	I Am Sam
October 23	Enough

2006

Date	Movie
January 1	Surrender, Dorothy
January 15	Jesse Stone: Night Passage
February 12	The Sum of All Fears
February 19	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
March 12	How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
March 19	Time Bomb
April 9	Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor
April 30	Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
May 28	We Were Soldiers
June 4	”Ocean's Eleven”
June 18	’’What Women Want’’

2007

Date	Movie
May 20	Million Dollar Baby

2015

Date	Movie
February 22	Act of Valor

2020

Date	Movie
May 3	Raiders of the Lost Ark
May 10	Forrest Gump
May 17	Mission: Impossible
May 24	Titanic
May 31	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
June 7	Grease Sing-Along^[12]
October 4	Old School
October 11	Clueless
October 18	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
October 25	Scream
November 1	Star Trek Beyond
November 29	Coming to America

2021

Date	Movie
May 30	Gladiator
June 20	Selma
September 5	School of Rock
October 3	Star Trek

2022

Date	Movie
May 14	Top Gun^[13]
December 4	Fit For Christmas^[14]
December 11	Must Love Christmas^[14]
December 18	When Christmas Was Young^[14]

2023

Date	Movie
February 5	TBA
February 12	TBA
March 5	TBA
April 2	TBA

References

1. "CBS Announces Sunday Night at the Movies - Five Iconic, Acclaimed Films from the Paramount Pictures Library to Be Broadcast Every Sunday in May" (Press release). CBS. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
2. Andreeva, Nellie (2020-09-17). "CBS Brings Back Sunday Night Movies To Fill Gap Until Scripted Dramas Return, Moves 'Big Brother' To Monday". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
3. Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946-Present New York: Ballantine Books, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2003. ISBN 0-345-45542-8
4. "Episode List: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars". TV Tango.
5. "Episode List: CBS Thursday Movie Special". TV Tango.
6. "Episode List: CBS Friday Movie". TV Tango.
7. "Episode List: CBS Tuesday Night Movie". TV Tango.
8. "Episode List: CBS Saturday Movie". TV Tango.
9. "Episode List: CBS Sunday Movie". TV Tango.
10. "Episode List: CBS Tuesday Movie Special". TV Tango.
11. "Episode List: CBS Wednesday Movie". TV Tango.
12. Andreeva, Nellie (2020-05-14). "CBS Adds 'Grease Sing-A-Long' To Its Sunday Night Movies Schedule; Watch The Trailer – Update". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
13. "Shows A-Z | TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource". www.thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
14. "Breaking News - More the Merrier! CBS Announces Airdates to Celebrate the 2022 CBS Holiday Collection with Original Movies and Specials | TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2022-12-07.

External links

• CBS Sunday Movie - TV Tango