7 FACES OF DR. LAO
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1964 fantasy drama, directed by George Pal, has a more serious moral than many – partly because the screenplay adaptation of the Charles G. Finney novel is by Twilight Zone frequent collaborator Charles Beaumont. Tony Randall stars, in a show-off role of the type Peter Sellers sometimes played, embodying a multitude of very different characters in the same film. Randall, as the mysterious traveling showman Dr. Lao, plays everyone from Merlin to Medusa, while his co-star, Barbara Eden, gets a leading role one year before starring in TV’s I Dream of Jeannie.