NY TV debut 12/13/43 from 8:20 to 4:20 pm on WNBT. Channel 1's Monday night feature film is a three-year-old Monogram release, one of several teen comedies teaming Jones and Moran, Selznick's Huckleberry Finn. 
NY TV debut 12/13/48 from 8:30 to 10:10 pm. Menzies, Wells and Korda's visionary 1936 sci-fi predicts a Christmas Eve 1940 massacre in Everytown and giant flat-screen TVs, among many other things.
12/13/53 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Darwell was third actress to play Raine's salty captain in forgotten 1945 programmer, after Marie Dressler (MGM, 1933) and Marjorie Rambeau (WB, 1940). Also portrayed by Minerva Urecal in a 1957 TV series.
12/13/58: Even as pre-1948 features from the Hollywood majors flooded TV, there were no fewer than four British movies on view on New York City stations on a Saturday night after 11 pm, 60 years ago.
12/13/63 at 5 to 6:30 pm on WABC's "The Big Show.'' Nicholson's first lead was playing a murderous hot-rodder in this 1960 cheapie aimed at the drive-in crowd.
12/13/68 from 8 to 9:30 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' Howard Thompson: "Tawdry but flavorsome melodrama.'' 1953 United Artists release from the team behind DOA.
12/13/73 at 10 am on WPIX. I wonder if @HollywoodComet has seen this 1940 Paramount musical programmer?
12/13/78 at 1 pm on "Movie 9.'' Any 1955 western where Woodward takes a whip to Burr can't be a total loss.
12/13/83 at 1 am on WNBC. Legendary tipplers Burton and Dunn mixing it up in the same 1960 movie? One of them actually won an Oscar.
12/13/88 at 2:15 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Turner Network Television helped rescue once-popular team from obscurity. Seiter's pre-code (1931) RKO divorce comedy is quite funny.
12/13/93 at 11:30 am on AMC. Goldwyn packages syndicated to local stations left Fitzmaurice's delightful 1930 crime drama out but included Sam Wood's inferior 1939 remake with David Niven.
12/13/98 at 4 am on TCM. Turner restored the Technicolor finale to ghastly 1939 musical that made entirely monochromatic NY TV debut 1/17/62 on WCBS. "One of the worst's worst,'' blurbed @nytimesarts' Howard Thompson.
