1/3/64 at 1:05 am on WNBC's "13th Hour.'' WNBC was still showing many Technicolor Hollywood films in black-and-white, but British films like 1955 series entry usually got broadcast in color. Even in Channel 4's post-"Tonight'' slot, later renamed "The Great Great Show.'' 
1/3/69 from 4:30 to 6 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' Drastic cuts to 75 minutes or less might have actually helped Lloyd's stultifying Revolutionary War pageant with a patently miscast star, which ran an endless116 minutes when it opened at Radio City Music Hall in 1940.
1/3/74 at 11:30 pm on WNEW's "Hollywood's Finest.'' "Uncommonly colorful, crackling drama,'' Howard Thompson writes of Dassin's final Hollywood film (1948). He was blacklisted while shooting NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950) in London.
1/3/79 from 3:15 to 5:13 am on WNEW. Elliot Nugent directed 1938 service comedy with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s stepfather Whiting in final feature film appearance, his first since 1931. Second-billed Hope's third feature, his only one with Grable.
1/3/84 on WPIX's "12:30 Star Movie.'' Pascal's 1941 Shaw adaptation made its NY TV debut 1/20/50 on Channel 11, part of a syndicated package that also included PYGMALION (1938). By the '60s, both were controlled by Janus Films.
1/3/88 at 3:45 am on TNT. One of several Warner B picture vehicles for MacLane, here playing mine rescue worker in story inspired by real-life 1936 Nova Scotia cave-in. Directed by the severely underrated Louis King, younger brother of Henry King.
1/3/94 at midnight on AMC. Lupino's first post-Warner drama (Fox, 1948) is Negulesco's tangy 1948 noir triangle with Widmark (his third film) and Wilde, who Lupino had appeared with in HIGH SIERRA and LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY.
1/3/99 at noon on TCM. Lloyd Bacon's very funny 1938 adaptation of Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's 1935 Broadway play. Remade by Roy Del Ruth as the semi-musical STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME (1952) with Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor in Robinson and Ruth Donnelly roles.
1/3/59 at 2 pm on WNEW. Haven't gotten around to watching Frank McDonald's THE BIG NOISE (1936) on @WarnerArchive's Guy Kibbee triple feature DVD, but it sounds suspiciously like an uncredited reworking of a George Arliss vehicle from just three years earlier, THE WORKING MAN.
