11/7/48 at 8 pm on WATV/13. Suicidal millionaire gives desperate woman a Pygmalion-style makeover to snag a rich husband. Usual complications ensue in 1935 Poverty Row romantic drama. NY TV debut way back: 7/31/40 on W2XBS, before the NBC flagship had a commercial license. 
NY TV debut 11/7/53 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Edward Ludwig's THE BIG WHEEL (1949) with Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea and Mary Hatcher, was Rooney's first film after he left MGM. Copyright expired 1977.
NY TV debut 11/7/58 from 5:30 to 7 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Originally 95 minutes in theaters, cut to around 75 for time slot. 1945 sequel to SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE (1944), which debuted 7/20/57 on WCBS' "The Late Show'' at presumably full length.
Few membered that 1937 classic actually debuted in three severely edited parts, beginning 3/14/56, on ABC's low-rated, half-hour. weekly TV series "MGM Parade.'' These were introduced by Walter Pidgeon, who also interviewed Robby the Robot. See the FORBIDDEN PLANET DVD.
11/7/63 from 1:25 to 2:55 pm on WCBS' "Late Late Show.'' Mr. Ruggles was billed either as Charles or Charlie, seemingly at random, for much of his screen career. Mystery seems to be his last of his '30s run at Paramount, released in 1940. Mostly worked in support after this.
11/7/68 at 10 am on WOR. I don't remember Channel 9 having a weekday morning movie at this point, so it probably didn't last long. Quentin Tarantino, a fan, introduced cameo-packed 1943 comedy on one of the cable networks years ago.
US TV debut 11/7/68 from 9 to 11 pm on "The CBS Thursday Night Movies.'' I'm not sure it was a coincidence that striking 1959 post-apocalyptic drama (filmed in black and white) turned up on the tube two days after Richard Nixon was elected president.
11/7/73 from 4:15 to 5:30 pm on WNJU. Spanish-language station showed radio stars' only solo effort (1944), directed by an Oscar-winning screenwriter, as DIOS DEL CIELO. Later the Spanish-language title of a somewhat better-known Terrence Malick film.
11/7/78: Just five years after CASABLANCA, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY went head to head on NYC's three independent stations (WNEW, WOR and WPIX) on Election Night, the lineup looked quite different.
11/7/83 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Channel 9 kept the lights burning for classic films at a point when they had mostly disappeared from NYC's VHF stations, even if Lanfield's 1947 mythical-kingdom comedy was admittedly low-wattage Hope.
11/7/88 at 4 am on "TNT Overnight.'' LeRoy's 1931 Gilbert vehicle made NY TV debut 9/16/57 on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Apparently never seen again by Big Apple audiences on TV again until this cablecast 31 years later.
11/7/93 at 7 pm on WLIW. Never included in pre-1948 Warner packages because of convoluted rights issues, studio's biggest grosser since SAY IT WITH SONGS (1929) fell into the public domain in 1971, much to the delight of PBS stations like Channel 21 and VHS distributors.
11/7/98 from 12:30 to 3:50 am on WLIW. Through the miracle of expired copyrights, a silent-and-sound Fairbanks Sr. triple feature, albeit in truncated prints. On Long Island's public broadcasting Channel 21 (now part of WNET/13) in the wee hours of Saturday morning.
