NY TV debut 11/21/48 from 9 to 10:10 pm on WPIX. Roach's 1936 Patsy Kelly boxing comedy was part of a package of 36 Roach features released theatrically between 1931 and 1943 by MGM or United Artists, now distributed by Unity Television. 
NY TV debut 11/21/48 at 9 pm on WJZ. Fairbanks vehicle with Alma Rubens, quite possibly the oldest (1916) film shown on TV up to this point, was part of a Sunday-night series of silents simulcast on Channel 7 and the ABC stations in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
11/21/53 at 10:30 pm on WABC. Independently-produced 1939 adaptation of WPA-sponsored social drama, shot at Astoria studio in Queens, released theatrically by Paramount. NY TV debut 7/17/47 on WABD; broadcast on at least two other stations before Channel 7 got it.
NY TV debut 11/21/58 on WNTA's "Movie Night.'' King's 1936 remake of a twice-filmed story, was produced in lovely early three-strip Technicolor, unavailable to Channel 13's viewers 60 years ago. Also cut by around 10 minutes.
NY TV debut 11/21/58 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' 1948 Davis dud was last film to ever play the newly-renamed Warner Theatre in Manhattan (formerly the Hollywood) before they sold it for use as a legit house called the Mark Hellinger. Now the Times Square Church.
11/21/63 at 9 on WABC. 1935 musical with Metropolitan Opera star turned huge Hollywood attraction (after a false start at MGM) is NYC's first feature film offering on Thanksgiving, one day before America changed forever. Followed at 10:30 by "Girl Talk'' with Virginia Graham.
US TV debut 11/21/68 from 9 to 11:30 pm on "The CBS Thursday Night Movies.'' Ford's 1964 opus in Super Panavision 70 ran 154 minutes in theaters, so CBS' editors had their work cut out for them for this Thanksgiving night presentation.
11/21/73 from 8 to 11 pm on "ABC Movie Special.'' Fox's expensive 1967 flop rolls out for the first time on Thanksgiving Eve, one day ahead of a much more successful Rex Harrison musical.
11/21/78 at 2:31 am on WNEW's "Hollywood's Finest.'' Raymond Chandler shares screenplay credit on Pichel's 1944 adaptation of Field weepie about Ladd trying to cure Young's deafness with a serum. NY TV debut 2/10/61 on WCBS.
11/21/83 from 8:30 to 11 on WOR. 1965 French resistance classic was the oldest film on NYC's TV stations today, with a less-heralded Frankenheimer, THE HORSEMEN (1971), the runner-up at 1:30 am on WABC.
11/21/88 at 3:20 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Only pre-TNT broadcast I can locate for Van Dyke's 1931 musical via ProQuest Historic Newspapers is 2/23/63 on WTAE, the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh. Nothing in New York City.
11/21/93 at 8 am on Showtime. US TV debut 2/8/64 on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' I still say it's better than SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, which bowed a month earlier on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' nypost.com/2015/02/25/why…
11/21/98 at 4 pm on WNET. Oscar-nominated Grant liked Stevens' 1940 drama so much he ended up owning it, but neglected to renew the copyright in 1968. In the '70s Grant promoted a musical remake which mercifully never happened.
