NY TV debut 11/29/43 from 9:20 to 10 pm on WNBT. NBC flagship regularly broadcast feature films from 1939 (when it was experimental station W2XBS) until 5/10/42. Programming then severely curtailed because of the war. 75 years ago tonight, movies returned with 1937 adventure. 
NY TV debut 11/28/48 at 6 pm on WNBT. Smart William Boyd bought all 66 of the "Hopalong Cassidy'' westerns he made for Paramount and United Artists release (1934-44). He distributed them to TV, cut to 54 minutes to fit one-hour time slots with commercials. 1941 entry was No. 39.
11/29/53 at 1 pm on WCBS' "Picture for a Sunday Afternoon.'' This showcase, introduced by Channel 2 in 1951, varied greatly in start time and length over the years. Originally 86 minutes in "Glorious Cinecolor,'' here it was filling a monochromic hour before "Amos 'n Andy.''
NY TV debut 11/29/58 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' @nytimesarts' Thomas Pryor put musical biopic on his list of the 10 worst films of 1947, along with A DUEL IN THE SUN, MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA, FOREVER AMBER and THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
11/29/63 from 5 to 6:30 pm on WABC's "The Big Show.'' Channel 7's predecessor to the long-running "4:30 Movie'' skewed young, heavy on American International Pictures' drive-in fare. Indefatigable Edward L. Cahn's 1956 teen musical was double-billed with his RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS.
1/29/68 at 1:15 am on WNBC's "Great Great Show.'' Universal did not hold TV rights to independently produced 1957 SuperScope drama "actually filmed in the heart of the Dark Continent.'' It debuted on Channel 4's Saturday night "Film Festival'' in package of mostly European films.
11/29/73 from 4:15 to 5:30 pm on WNJU's "Cine de la Tarde.'' 1943 comedy, part of a series derived from radio, was dubbed into Spanish and listed as "El Gordition Enamorado.'' Love those RKO posters.
11/29/78 from 11:30 pm to 1:15 am on "The CBS Late Movie.'' Listed as made for TV, Wiederhorn's Bahamas-filmed horror with Cushing as aging Nazi breeding an army of zombies apparently had some theatrical exposure. Followed by a "Kojak'' rerun.
11/29/83 at 3 am on WPIX. I seem to recall Milestone's fact-inspired 1943 war drama running in heavy rotation on WNEW's "Metromedia Movie,'' along with GUADALCANAL DIARY.
11/29/88 at 2:35 am on "TNT Overnight.'' This might well have been the first glimpse NYC TV viewers got of Sandrich's racy musical featuring a team that WOR's programmers didn't seem much interested in. Released in February 1934, five months before the Production Code crackdown.
11/29/93 at 6:15 am on The Movie Channel. Berkeley's last big-budget musical for Warners (1938) is a mixed bag, but Johnnie Davis' opening introduction of "Hooray for Hollywood'' is memorable and there's also Benny Goodman.
11/29/98 at midnight on TCM's "Silent Sundays.'' At least three people, maybe more, were killed during the making of Brown's 1928 epic. greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com/2010/10/metros…
