1776
TCM, 3:00 p.m. ET
If you watched Hamilton last night on Disney+, you heard the tossaway lyric “Sit down, John!” – which wasn’t really a tossaway at all. It was a shout-out to a previous musical about American independence, 1776, which was preserved on film in this 1972 version. William Daniels plays John Adams, with Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Frankin, Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson, and Blythe Danner, Gwyneth Paltrow’s mom, as the luminous Martha Jefferson. And the opening song, in this musical about the complex political battle to draft the Declaration of Independence, is titled “Sit Down, John!”