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DVR ALERT — If you can break away from football or the Twilight Zone marathon, Turner Classics is showing several excellent Sci-Fi flicks Friday starting with "Things To Come" at 5:30 a.m. (CST) With a Screenplay be H.G. Wells, iIt's sort of a precursor to "1984," filmed a decade before Orwell's novel. Speaking of Wells, he's the protagonist of "Time After Time," which plays at 12:30 p.m.(CST) Malcolm McDowell plays Wells, who follows Jack the Ripper who stole Wells' the time machine, into the 1970s. Mary Steenburgen is the female lead. But "Soylent Green" at 7:30 am (CST), "The Fly" at 9 am (CST), Them! at 11 am (CST), The Day the Earth Stood Still" at 2:30 pm (CST), and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" at 4:30 pm (CST). are also on. Not Sci-Fi, but also excellent "The Magnificent Seven" at 7 pm (CST) and "M" at 9 pm (CST) are also on.
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