NY TV debut 11/12/48 from 8 to 9:40 pm on WPIX. Part of a 24-film package of films from Producer-director Alexander Korda's London Films, 1938 celebration of India's British Raj was directed by Zoltan Korda, an even better director than his brother. Broadcast in black and white. 
NY TV debut 11/12/48 at 8:30 pm on WATV. New one on me but poster for 1936 kidnap drama from Poverty Row's already-defunct Chesterfield is a grabber. No kin to Dale, Muriel Evans was better known for appearances in many westerns and Charlie Chase shorts.
11/12/53 from 6 to 7:25 pm on WOR. William H. Pine of Pine-Thomas directs Weissmuller in rare 1946 appearance outside Tarzan and Jungle Jim series, paired with erstwhile Tarzan Crabbe. Paramount cut its logos off when they sold pre-1948 series to a TV distributor. All now PD.
11/12/58 at 10:30 and 1 pm on WNEW. Boy Soprano Breen migrated down the cast list when his RKO-distributed 1936 vehicle RAINBOW ON THE RIVER was re-released in 1945 by Screencraft as IT HAPPENED IN NEW ORLEANS, as it was also known on early TV. All Breens are in the pubic domain.
11/12/58 at 1 pm on WABC's "Afternoon Movie.'' Bunch of laid-off Universal contractees (led by Mark Harmon's mom) hold a reunion at 1949 Allied Artists. Maybe @HollywoodComet has heard of this Gay '90s musical set on the Bowery; it's new to me. Does @WarnerArchive hold rights?
NY TV debut 11/12/58 at 7:30 pm on WNTA's "Movie Night.'' As close as Bogie got to a tearjerker, playing unlucky Depression-era dad to child star Jason, sent up the river by overzealous cop O'Brien. Repeated at 9 and 10:30.
11/12/63 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on WOR. Anderson's 1955 British war film was part of eclectic mix on "Million Dollar Movie,'' including Italian gladiator epics, Japanese monsters, as well as pre- and post-1950 Hollywood films from WB, MGM, Allied Artists, Universal, Paramount, RKO.
11/12/63 from approximately 4:35 to 5:50 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show III.'' Sometimes I got up early enough to catch the end of the '30s Warner Bs that so often greeted the dawn on Channel 2 in this era. Busy Noel Smith directed Dick Purcell and Anne Nagel in 1936 sports drama.
11/12/68 at 8 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' "Too awful for words,'' Howard Thompson gripes about de Cordova's obscure 1945 romantic drama that Channel 7's none-too-picky programmers scraped from the bottom of WB's pre-1950 barrel. Not on DVD; nobody's complaining.
11/12/68 from 3 to 4:30 pm on WOR. I don't care if Howard Thompson calls this "excruciating,'' who wouldn't want to see 1961 tuner in "fabulous Musicolor'' with that cast? Gosfield's billing refers to his role on "The Phil Silvers Show.'' But no, it's not Superman's Jack Larson.
11/12/68 from 11:30 to 1:10 am on WCBS. Weeknight "Late Show'' would soon get pushed to a 1:10 start after CBS put Merv Griffith up against "The Tonight Show.'' Apparent NY TV debut of final (1956) film in Universal's "Creature'' trilogy, distributed to TV by Seven Arts.
11/12/73 at 8 pm on "Million Dollar Movie.'' "Good, at least the first 50 runoffs'' is Howard Thompson warily greeted the WOR bow of 1952 Anthony Mann western that had run in heavy rotation for years on WCBS.
US TV debut 11/12/73 from 9 to 11 on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Sometimes I wonder if anyone was enticed into watching movies on TV by newspaper ads as ugly as this one that appeared in the New York Times.
11/12/78 from 1:27 to 3:22 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' I love the precision of these early VCR-era late-night listings. Ritt's THE BROTHERHOOD (1968), which bowed on ABC in 1970, was a miscast Mafia epic whose box-office failure almost made Paramount pass on THE GODFATHER.
11/12/83 at 8 pm on WNEW. "Welcome back,'' Howard Thompson apparently joked about 1934 evergreen that premiered 1/10/57 on WCBS, ran in the '60s on WNBC, returned to WCBS in the 1970s and was closing out its NYC syndicated runs on Channel 5.
11/12/88 at 11 pm on USA's "Night Flight.'' It's unclear from the listings whether cable network was showing Universal's entire 12-chapter serial from 1939 or the 78-minute feature version, but God bless them either way. Spoiler alert!
11/12/93 at 2 am on The Disney Channel. Fred and Ginger's first teaming (1933) inspired Stanley Donen to direct BLAME IT ON RIO (1984), he told me at the time. I guess he had to blame it on something.
11/13/98 at 8 pm on @TCM's "Feature Presentation with Robert Osborne.'' Only time I saw Wyler's 1938 Civil War epic on the big screen was at the Wadsworth Atheneum, an art museum in Hartford CT. Around 1974 on a double bill with THAT CERTAIN WOMAN.
11/13/73 at 9:30 pm on Sterling Manhattan's "Movie of the Week.'' Before the explosion of cable networks, some systems presented syndicated films no longer under contract to local stations. Besides Columbias from Screen Gems, Sterling also booked pre-48 WB's from United Artists.
