12/21/48 from 8:30 to 9:30 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' Corrigan's 1936 Rogers and Hart musical, the third feature shot entirely in three-strip Technicolor, was being broadcast in black and white, as it had been for its NY TV debut 2/14/44 on WNBT. 
NY TV debut 12/21/48 from 8:30 to 9:30 pm on WJZ. Cooch dancer Margo uses abandoned baby to escape the cops on Christmas Eve Los Angeles in Sekely's heart-tugger, released by Columbia in 1939 after sponsor Grand National folded.
12/21/53 from 4:30 to 5 pm on WCBS. "The Early Matinee'' was back on weekdays after cancellation of a United Nations public affairs show, showing films that were cut to fit a half-hour time slot.
12/21/58 at 11 pm on WPIX. Donat's sole directorial effort (1949), for London Films.
12/21/58 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Tracy's first Oscar winner (1938), a Yuletide perennial for decades, made its NY TV debut 9/8/58 on "The Early Show.''
NY TV debut 12/21/63 from 9 to 11:20 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Some pre-Christmas inspiration from Todd, playing a real-life Scotsman who became the U.S. Senate chaplin in Koster's 1954 biopic.
NY TV debut 12/21/63 from 11:20 to 1:05 am on WCBS' "Schaefer Award Theatre.'' First time I ever saw Sandrich's 1942 musical was on brewery-sponsored showcase with only four commercial interruptions, which aired eight times a year. Crosby's blackface number later got cut.
NY TV debut 12/21/68 from 11:30 to 1:30 am. Sirk's 1954 soaper was very last to air on original iteration of "Schaefer Award Theatre,'' which WCBS was forced to cancel because voracious networks made it impossible to find appropriate syndicated premieres.
12/21/73 from 8:30 to 10 pm on WNJU. Ford's 1939 classic, which played Radio City Music Hall, made NY TV debut 8/5/50 at 9 pm on WCBS' "Premiere Playhouse.'' Thanks to Channel 47, this may have been the first time it was broadcast in a Spanish-dubbed version in this market.
12/21/78 from 3:51 to 5:20 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Culver City's troubled and treacly version of life in Hell's Kitchen 70 years ago was held back for two years after completion of principal photography in 1946.
12/21/83 from 2 to 4:05 am on WNEW. Hammer's excellent 1958 reboot (known simply as DRACULA across the pond) originally played on Universal double features with THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE.
12/2/88 at 4:05 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Ruben's 1931 melodrama is part of Hollywood vigilante cycle, with Dix cast as a socialite who is secretly The Reckoner, foe of gangsters.
12/21/93 at midnight on WNYC. One of three Laughton vehicles produced in the UK by Mayflower Films, with 1938 stateside release by Paramount. NY TV debut 3/10/50 on WPIX. US copyright expired 1966, but protection may have been restored in 1995 under the Uruguay Round Act.
12/21/98 at 8 am on TCM. Eddie Anderson plays Noah in adaptation of Marc Connelly's all-black Broadway show with bible stories he co-directed with William Keighley in 1936. NY TV debut 3/15/59 on WCBS' "The Late Show.''
