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11/9/53 at 1 to 2:15 am on WCBS. "The Late Late Show'' was now running seven nights a week, instead of just Friday and Saturdays. But if the listings are correct, films were still being butchered. Cromwell's 1941 adaptation originally ran 117 minutes.
11/9/58 from 5 to 6:30 pm on WNTA's "Shirley Temple Theater.'' Confusing ad tries suggests Channel 13 broadcast was both a repeat AND a premiere. Further research reveals 1936 Temple-Kibbee classic made NY TV debut 11/3/57 on WPIX's "Feature Playhouse.''
NY TV debut 11/9/58 at 10:30 pm on WRCA. "Foreign Film Week'' on "Movie 4'' kicks off on Sunday night with third film in Dino Risi's comic trilogy. 1955 Italian import was dubbed, cut and of course not presented in its original color version. Plus interrupted for news at 11!
US TV debut 11/9/63 from 9 to midnight on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' One of the season's most highly touted premieres ran a full three hours in 2:35 CinemaScope in 1959 theaters, so home audiences were seeing an edited, panned and scanned reduction of the original.
NY TV debut 11/9/63 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' 1956 romantic comedy about peacetime recruits by the original author of SEE HERE PRIVATE HARGROVE (1944), now a busy screenwriter. Channel 2's audiences saw panned and scanned Warnerscope. Dig that mushroom cloud!
US TV debut 11/9/68 from 9 to 11:05 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Another big (black and white) premiere (Universal, 1962) on the legacy network's longest-running movie showcase. Offerings were eventually eclipsed by ABC's deeper-pocketed "Sunday Night Movie.''
11/9/68 at 11:30 pm on WABC's "Best of Broadway.'' You wouldn't expect to see a monochrome 1945 biopic get Saturday-night slot on Channel 7, but I'm about 70 percent sure this was NY TV debut of indie that apparently was never in any of Fox's TV packages and has since vanished.
11/9/73 at 4:30 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4,'' on WABC's "4:30 Movie,'' at 11:30 on "The CBS Late Movie'' and 1:30 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' No idea why four different Day movie turned up on 3 channels on this date. This happened when Cagney got his AFI tribute, which she hasn't.
11/9/78 from 12:05 to 2:20 am on "The CBS Late Movie.'' When this "Hogan's Heroes'' cast reunion opened on 1/4/68, Renata Adler wrote in @nytimes: "I think you ought to skip... because this first film of the year is so unrelievedly awful, in such a number of uninteresting ways.''
11/9/83 on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Channel 9 seems to have been the last local syndicated stop for second-tier 1941 Marx Bros. that made NY TV premiere 2/1/57 on WCBS, eventually migrating to WNEW and then back to WCBS for a second set of runs.
"World Color Premiere'' 11/9/88 at 8:05 pm on SuperStation TBS. Here's a 30-year-old promo with members of a "test audience'' who allegedly preferred colorized Curtiz 9-to-1 over the original black and white version.
11/9/88 at midnight, 2 and 4 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Meanwhile, an article in American Film magazine credited TBS' sister station for creating a cult following for the quintessential pre-code cad with triple features like this.
11/9/93 at 1 pm on TNT. An inventor of cellular technology "casts her spell'' as the immortal "tropical siren'' Tondelayo. 1942 MGM campfest is a remake of 1929 British film based on Leon Gordon's 1926 Broadway play.
11/9/98 at 1:30 am on Turner Classic Movies. Between FOUR DAUGHTERS (1938) and FOUR WIVES (1939), WB put most of the cast (including Garfield, whose character was killed off in the first film) in Curtiz' excellent pseudo-sequel, remade just three years later as ALWAYS IN MY HEART
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