NYC TV debut 12/17/48 from 9:30 to 10:45 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' Madison Pictures handled TV distribution of Landers' stylish, two-year-old thriller with Stroheim as a murderous hypnotist. Rare PRC release that does not seem to be in the public domain. 
12/17/53 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' A number of the newer and higher-profile titles on Channel 2 at this point had debuted with week-long runs on WPIX's "First Show.'' Daves' 1947 noir made its Channel 11 bow on 1/2/53.
12/17/58 at midnight on WNTA. Landers' 1945 screwball contribution to the imitation "Thin Man'' genre, a Pine-Thomas production sold off in 1951 by Paramount to TV distributor Select Pictures. Followed 3 repeats in a row of MY DARLING CLEMENTINE on Channel 13's "Movie Night.''
12/17/63 on WNEW's "10 O'Clock Movie,'' repeated at 1:30 on "The Late Lunch Movie.'' Newman's British indie noir, filmed in Italy and distributed to stateside theaters by Fox in 1951, made NY TV debut 7/5/55 on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Not on DVD.
12/17/68 at 9 pm on "NBC's Tuesday Night at the Movies.'' Tagline of Pepsi commercials became title of 1964 beachfront frolic whose eclectic pleasures include two stars of "Gilligan's Island," comedians Lynde and Woodbury, Ms. Sinatra and Ellen Burstyn as a spoil-sport professor.
12/16/73 at 9 pm on "NBC's Monday Night at the Movies.'' Hilariously awful, gender-bent 1969 remake of Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, reset in the thrilling world of professional golf. Released after the death of director Robert Sparr, a busy TV helmer.
12/16/78 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm on WCBS' "Picture for a Sunday Afternoon.'' Fleming's 1934 classic made NY TV debut 7/8/57 on WCBS' "Early Show.'' Haskin's 1950 Technicolor version made US TV debut 1/5 and 1/12/55, broadcast in black and white on ABC's "Disneyland.''
12/17/83 at 10 pm on WNET's "Cinema 13.'' Hard to imagine Hecht, MacArthur and Garmes' Astoria-shot 1935 art film in the nearly 6000-seat "Showplace of the Nation,'' backed by a live stage show with the Rockettes. Never on video in the US, MIA from TV. rarefilmm.com/2018/03/the-sc…
12/17/88 at 2:40 am on WNET. Sternberg took over AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1931) after Paramount sent Eisenstein packing. Channel 13 sandwiched it between CAPE FEAR (1962) and BLOOD ON THE SUN (1945) on one of its Saturday night movie marathons.
12/17/93 at 10:30 am on AMC. Psychoanalyst Fred helps Ginger understand why she can't go through her wedding to Ralph Bellamy, a theme that Ginger would explore with many variations.
12/17/98 at 6 pm on TCM. "Tennessee Williams' First Great Comedy!'' (1962, via George Roy Hill) made US TV debut 12/11/66 on "The ABC Sunday Night Movie.'' As Howard Thompson often observed, character ace John McGiver steals it.
According to a 1935 Time Magazine review by Britton Hadden, the film is "loosely based on'' Hecht's novel "A Jew in Love'' (1931), banned in Canada and other places, "with echoes from his pornographic'' novel "Fantagius Mallare.'' Well, you learn something every day.
