12/28/48 at 8 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' Prolific Poverty Row veteran Newfield's work was often on display 70 years ago. 1945 screwball comedy, one of many films he directed for PRC, made NY TV debut 10/18/47. 56 minutes originally, later syndicated at 26. 
12/28/53 at 1 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Now running seven days a week instead of just weekends, showcase often featured better films than on the preceding "Late Show.'' Wood's 1940 Best Picture Oscar nominee, bowing 11/7/52 on WPIX, followed ROAD TO THE BIG HOUSE (1947).
NY TV debut 12/28/58 at 10:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Kubrick's second film, shot on location New York City and released mostly at the bottom of double bills, was rushed onto TV. Got the usual Sunday night treatment on Channel 4, interrupted for 10 minutes of news at 11.
12/28/63 at 9 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' Nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor makes her feature debut, opposite erstwhile "Our Gang'' lead Carl "Alfalfa'' Switzer in 60-minute 1942 Hugh Herbert vehicle for Universal.
12/28/63 from 1:05 to approximately 7:15 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show I-IV.'' This quadruple feature ran past dawn on Sunday following the Saturday night premiere of EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956) on "The Late Show,'' beginning at 11:20 pm.
12/28/68 at 1:30 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4 Matinee.'' Forgotten 1964 ethnographic documentary from the French director of the Oscar-winning SKY ABOVE AND MUD BENEATH (1962).
12/28/73 at 4:30 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' Ferrer and Kerr make like Ernest and Julio Gallo in 1957 vineyard melodrama. Sole big-screen effort by a TV director who was married to Eva Marie Saint from 1951 to 2016.
12/28/78 at 1 pm on WOR. Just to the left of Gladys' sign is the International Theater, home of the East Coast satellite ceremony for the first Oscar broadcast in 1953. Demolished the next year to make room for the New York Coliseum, replaced in 2002 by the Time Warner Center.
12/28/83 from 2 to 4:20 am on WNEW's "Hollywood's Finest.'' 9/4/58 WCBS debut of 93-minute musical was listed for an approximately 105-minute time slot. Commercials loads had exploded 25 years later, especially for late night movies.
12/28/88 at midnight on WABC. Lots of Times Square marquee action, among other things, in Coppola's YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW (1967). You can read my high school review for the Bryant Clipper in Queens NY here: nypost.com/2013/08/09/rev…
12/28/93 at 7 pm on AMC. Stanwyck plays Sierra Nevada Jones in one of several Benedict Bogeaus productions that RKO did not retain TV rights to. Co-star Reagan, by then heavily involved in TV, didn't think much of 1954 western.
12/28/98 at 6 pm on AMC. Howard Thompson said he never heard of 1967 Jules Verne adaptation with Burl Ives replacing originally cast Bing Crosby as P.T. Barnum. Me neither. Topped 1967 AIP double bill in NYC. IMDB claims ABC showed it in 1971, but can find no listings for that.
