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11/24/48 at 8 pm on WATV. 1941 Poverty Row exploitation mystery featuring John Archer and Gale Storm made NY TV debut 8/5/44 on WNBT.
11/24/53 from 6 to 7:20 pm on WOR. One of a long string of 1940's Bs made under contract by Pine-Thomas Productions for Paramount, which sold them off for TV early (NY debut 10/15/51 on WCBS) minus original logos. All seem to have lapsed into the public domain.
NY TV debut 11/24/58 from 5 to 6:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Lorre plays "Baron Rudolph Maximilian Tagger" posing as eccentric "Colonel Gimpy'' in St. Clair's 1936 spy thriller set in airplane industry. Not to be confused with 1946 RKO of the same title.
NY TV debut 11/24/58 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Channel 9 departs from its previously inflexible 90-minute MDM time slot for Welles' masterpiece, which still endured at least 20 minutes of cuts each time during its week-long run, 16 showings in all.
NY TV debut 11/24/58 from 7:30 to 9 on WNTA's "Movie Night.'' Zanuck and Arliss take on anti-semitism (embodied by Karloff's character) in Werker's bold 1934 biopic of the financier. Channel 13's viewers could not enjoy Technicolor finale in original color. Repeated at 9 and 11.
11/24/63 at 1:05 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show.'' NY TV premiere of 1941 screwball comedy about Nazi agents in Hollywood was one of 21 scheduled films preempted this day on NYC's 7 TV stations for continuing coverage of JFK's assassination.
NY TV debut 11/24/68 from 7 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview.'' Richardson's cameo-filled 1960 satire of the funeral industry (via Waugh) was so corrosive that the networks passed. Not even the adventurous "The CBS Late Movie'' would touch it post-syndication.
NY TV debut 11/24/73 at 11:30 pm on WABC's "Saturday Night Movie.'' Another Metro release (Ranald McDougall, 1961) that was too adult for the networks. Borgnine disapproves of son Franciosa's affair with prostitute (top-billed Gina Lollobrigida).
US TV debut 11/24/73 from 9 to 11 on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' On the other hand, Fonda entertaining married mogul Robards in her apartment in Robert Ellis Miller's 1966 WB comedy was judged fit for prime-time network showing at this point.
11/24/78 from 4:30 to 6 pm on WOR. John Belushi in rubber suit hosted heavily-edited US TV debut 3/15/77 from 9 to 10 pm on NBC. A year later, 1974 Japanese horror (unlike KONG remake, not set at World Trade Center) closed out 4-film Godzilla marathon the day after Thanksgiving.
11/24/83 at 4:15 pm on WOR. Long-running triple features of KONG, SON and JOE would last three more Thanksgiving Days. After owner RKO General was forced by FCC to sell Channel 9, new owner (MCA) of renamed WWOR declined to re-license its RKO library.
11/24/88 at 3 am on "TNT Overnight" Earliest listing I can find for Davies' 1929 talkie debut is 2/17/83 on Philadelphia's Channel 3.
11/24/93 at 11:45 am on AMC. Arch Oboler wrote 1943 flag-waver with Brown and Carney set in munitions plant, directed by Hungarian-born Republic Pictures mainstay John Auer.
11/24/98 at 4 am. A rare occasion 20 years ago when the New York Times listings didn't cut off TCM's final late-night movie.
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