12/8/43 at approximately 9 pm. One of Disney's wartime shorts, an 11-minute, part-animated, argument for vaccination produced with The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Broadcast in black and white. 
NY TV debut 12/8/48 at 8 pm on WATV. You have to wonder how many of these Poverty Row productions would survive if safety prints hadn't been struck for early TV broadcasts. Distributed in 1936 by Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, currently streaming on Amazon.
12/8/48 at approximately 9:05 pm on WPIX. Chaplin plays "Darn Hosiery'' in his two-reel A BURLESQUE ON CARMEN (1916). There's also a padded-out 44-minute version prepared by Essanay without his participation that Chaplin unsuccessfully sued to stop. Which was being shown?
12/8/53 at 12:05 am on WNBT. In the final, "not bad'' (Maltin) Philo Vance mystery, released by PRC in 1947, he joins a detective magazine as a technical advisor and murder happens.
NY TV debut 12/8/58 from 7:30 to 9 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' First of three major Cagneys that Channel 9 managed to get for prime time showings the first time around. WCBS, which heavily cherry-picked the pre-48 WB's, had already shown LITTLE CAESAR on "The Late Show."
NY TV debut 12/8/58 from 1:15 to 3 am. Robson's only vehicle for home studio MGM (1934) was the second in which she played a fictionalized version of real-life "Witch of Wall Street'' Hetty Green, after MOTHER'S MILLIONS aka SHE-WOLF (Universal, 1931).
NY TV debuts 12/8/63 at 8 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview'' and 10:15 to midnight on "International Movietime.'' Quite the double feature on Channel 9. Was FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952) being shown with subtitles or dubbed? Over on WNEW, 9 pm panel discussion:"Foreign Films: Art or Arty?''
12/8/68 at 10 pm on WNJU. Channel 47 out of Newark was showing mostly Spanish-language films from Argentina and Mexico, but some dubbed Hollywood product presumably licensed from Channel 9 parent RKO General were beginning to creep into the schedule.
12/8/73 at 11:30 pm on WABC's "Saturday Night Movie.'' "Un Film de Darryl F. Zanuck'' was rare Fox film from the '50s that debuted on CBS (late, in 1970) instead of NBC or ABC. Virtually all decamped to WABC after their network bows.
12/8/78 at midnight on WOR. "The original sawtooth, and still the best,'' blurbs @nytimesarts' Howard Thompson, who preferred Walker's 1935 stark shocker (whose poster including a "Warning!'' to "Hysterical Women!'') over Waggner's 1941 wolfbane bloomer.
12/8/83 on WOR's "4 O'Clock Movie.'' All sorts of hints in poster for the first outside gig in decades for Fox legend Henry King, a ripe 1959 melodrama set in 1931 California wine country.
12/8/88 from 2:45 to 4:45 am on WABC's "Haunted Hollywood.'' Menzies' THINGS TO COME (1936) is more Everytown than Tinseltown, but what the heck, a big Christmas surprise is on the way. I'd love to see how John Carradine introduced on syndicated series of public-domain shockers.
12/8/93 at 4 pm on Showtime. Only film with two different Warner Bros. logos, courtesy of prologue appended for 1949 reissue in which David Brian "presents'' the 1935 film to audience of FBI agents, complete with original "jumping WB'' logo.
12/8/98 at 4 am on TCM. "The singing team's one witty film,'' gushes Howard Thompson of MGM's first feature (1938) entirely in three-strip Technicolor, which balances schmaltz of Victor Herbert score with Dorothy Parker-Alan Campbell script.
