NY TV debut 11/6/48 from 8 to 9 pm on WPIX. Roach Jr.'s 48-minute streamliner was the third and last with these characters. Erstwhile Miss America LaPlanche, who had played some bits at MGM, is best known for DEVIL BAT'S DAUGHTER. 
11/6/48 at 8:30 pm on WJZ/7. Orson Welles did uncredited narration for Edward Ludwig's excellent 1940 indie adaptation released by RKO. NY TV debut 3/29/47 on WNBT/4. Ubiquitous in the early days of television, until Disney bought and suppressed to protect its planned remake.
11/6/53 at 5 pm on WCBS' "Late Matinee.'' Channel 2 was showing the original 53-minute theatrical cut from 1951 of Lippert mystery, which neatly fit into a one-hour time slot. Distributor also made it available in a cut designed for half-hour time slots.
11/6/53 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Probably the NY TV debut of clever 1949 classic, independently produced by Harry M. Popkin. Like most of his films, it eventually entered the public domain. Remade in 1969 (as COLOR ME DEAD) and 1998.
NY TV debut 11/6/58 at 11:15 pm on WABC's "Shock Theater.'' Host Zacherly not mentioned in ad for last official entry in Universal's classic monster canon. Distributed to TV by Screen Gems as part of its "Son of Shock'' package, which also included Columbia titles.
11/6/63 at 9 pm on WNEW's "Movie Greats.'' Channel 5 was promoting prime-time debuts of features that had been on NYC TV for years. Sherman's 1943 classic bowed 7/27/57 on WCBS' "The Late Show.''
US TV debut 11/6/68 at 9 pm on "The ABC Wednesday Night Movie.'' 20 years after its 1965 release, I asked Richard Crenna about this legendary comedy penned by William Peter Blatty. "We knew from Day 1 it was going to be a huge disaster,'' he told me.
11/6/68 at 11 pm on WOR's "The Flick.'' Perry's groundbreaking 1962 indie drama debuted on Channel 9's "The Big Preview'' in November 1966 and ran for a week on "Million Dollar Movie'' in February 1967.
11/6/73 at 8 pm. Something I've never seen, three stone classics going head-to-head in prime time on all three of NYC's independent VHF stations. It was Election Night, and WOR offered THE LAST HURRAH at 11 pm for a chaser.
US TV debut 11/6/73 on "The WCBS Late Movie.'' Caulfield reportedly replaced the fired Betty Hutton in the last of the 13 budget westerns Lyles made for Paramount release with veteran casts. They were designed for the bottom half of double bills, still common in 1968.
11/6/78 on WOR's "4 O'Clock Movie.'' A long newspaper strike was over, but Howard Thompson's blurbs weren't back in @nytimes. He never did weigh in on this 1971 horror set in the 1930s. Colleague Vincent Canby's review said it was "likely to give misogyny a bad name.''
11/6/83 at 7 pm on WNJN. New Jersey Public Television offers a minor 1948 Durbin on this Sunday during what seemed to be the nadir of classics on New York City TV.
11/6/88 at 4 pm on TNT. After purchasing the MGM and WB libraries, Turner cleared the rights to a bunch of movies that hadn't been shown on TV in years. Some, like Curtiz' 1938 flop, turned out to be disappointments for a new generation of fans.
11/6/93 at 8 am on Showtime. Turner was amortizing the cost of its film acquisitions by licensing titles like 1937 expose of an anti-immigrant group to Showtime and its sister channel The Movie Channel. Robert Osborne was introducing films on the latter.
11/6/98 at 4 pm on TCM. Dunno about Zsa Zsa, but Farley Granger did not have fond memories of the omnibus THE STORY OF THREE LOVES (1953), his penultimate film for MGM.
