NY TV debut 1/4/49 at 8 pm on WPIX. Dennis Morgan's first acting role (under birth name) after extra work and uncredited lip-synching to Allan Jones' "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody'' in THE GREAT ZIEGFELD (also released in 1936). Listed under re-release title SEA RAIDERS. 
NY TV debut 1/4/54 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Several, if not all, of the Monogram Chans had aired in the Big Apple but 1934 mystery was first of the earlier Fox series. Initially distributed by Unity Television with Fox logos clipped off, though that fooled nobody.
NY TV debut 1/4/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Keighley and Berkeley's THE SINGING KID (1936), Al Jolson's last starring vehicle, is the first musical (besides CAIN AND MABEL) that I've run across in Channel 2's 135 carefully cherry-picked Warner "pre-'48s."
US TV debut 1/4/64 from 9 to 11:20 on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Panned and scanned, Negulesco's 1955 musical was based on a much-filmed story. As 1931 non-musical with Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter, reworked four years later as Shirley Temple vehicle CURLY TOP.
1/4/64 from 4 to 5:15 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show II.'' Fox got a Canadian court to overturn a $1 million judgement won by the owners of the song whose title the studio appropriated for otherwise unrelated 1935 comedy about a gambler. DVD: Fox Cinema Archive.
US TV debut 1/4/69 from 9 to 11:15 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Ownership of Grant's penultimate feature (1964), produced by one of his companies (Granox), reverted to him. One of several Grants owned by Paramount.
1/4/74 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' One of Selznick's shadow productions (because of his UA contract) that RKO got to keep, Dmytryk's excellent 1946 drama of returning veterans debuted 9/15/58 on Channel 9's "Million Dollar Movie.''
1/4/79 from 2:17 to 4:11 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' VCR-friendly listing for Richard Bare's legendary indie I SAILED TO TAHITI WITH AN ALL-GIRL CREW (1968). @nytimesarts' Howard Thompson dubbed it "one of the world's worst.''
1/4/84 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Travis, Bette Davis' hapless romantic interest in THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, was still plugging away in 1958 sci-fi cheapie that made NY TV debut 4/8/61 on WPIX's "Chiller Theatre.'' Underachieving '30s Fox star Michael Whalen was also in it.
1/4/89 at 4 pm on TNT. Hawks' 1936 adaptation of Broadway play made NY TV debut 3/6/61 on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie,'' then quickly disappeared until Turner cleared the rights in the '80s. Issued on VHS, it's been long gone again, reportedly since TCM's only showing in 1994.
1/4/99 at noon on TCM. Though available in syndication from 1956, DeMille's jaw-dropping 1930 musical does not seem to have had any takers in New York City, where TV audiences first glimpsed its pre-code glories on TNT in the late '80s. I saw it earlier at Theatre 80 St. Marks.
