OUR MAN FLINT
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
TCM is launching an evening of spy-spoof movies, starting with this smartly satiric 1965 comedy – starring James Coburn as super-agent Derek Flint – which heavily inspired Mike Myers’ Austin Powers movies. (Even the sound of the top-secret phone in Myers’ movies comes directly from Flint.) After Our Man Flint, TCM presents two of Dean Martin’s lighter, less enjoyable but still genial 1966 Matt Helm spy spoofs, The Silencers (10 p.m. ET) and Murderers’ Row (11:45 p.m. ET, co-starring Ann-Margret). Then comes the British 1964 comedy Carry on Spying (at 1:45 a.m. ET), one of the first spoofs to hop on the James Bond craze. And, finally, TCM presents a pair of Vincent Price spy spoofs, in which he plays a villain playing world domination using robot women as his pawns. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine , from 1965, is shown at 3:30 a.m. ET, followed at 5:15 a.m. ET by 1966’s Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Both films feature teen idols from the era: Frankie Avalon in the first movie, Fabian in the second.