1/7/49 at 8:30 pm on WATV. Cahn's 1935 crime drama, made for a Poverty Row outfit absorbed by Republic in 1935, made New York TV debut 5/4/46 on WABD, flagship of the old DuMont network. Copyright expired 1963. 
NY TV debut 1/7/54 from 6:15 to 7:25 pm on WCBS' "Early Show.'' Ignoring chronological order, second Fox Chan broadcast by Channel 2 (after 1934's CHARLIE CHAN IN LONDON with Warner Oland on "The Late Show'' three days days earlier) was Lachman's solid series finale from 1942.
1/7/59 at 7:30, 9 and 10:30 pm on WNTA's "Movie Night.'' Struggling Channel 13's thrice-a-week showcase licensed AMBERSONS from WOR owner RKO General. NY TV debut 9/16/57 on Channel 9's "Million Dollar Movie,'' whose 2 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY broadcasts tonight overlapped these 3.
1/7/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' This had made NY TV debut the night before, with Odets' heavy-going 1944 RKO drama (Barrymore won Best Supporting Actress Oscar) arriving amid of flood of 1950s and even early 60s titles.
1/7/69 on WABC's "4:30 Movie.'' European productions like Visconti's SENSO (1954) sometimes turned up amid Channel 7's lineup of Japanese sci-fi, AIP beach party musicals and post-network Fox titles.
1/6/74 from 6:30 to 8 pm on WPIX. Odd time slot for Bacon's odder wartime fantasy from the author of PORTRAIT OF JENNY, released to theaters in 1946. Originally ran 92 minutes, so normally it would fill a two-hour slot at this point.
1/7/79 from 3:30 to 7 pm on WPIX. Five years later, Channel 11 was supersizing time slots for films, including Selznick's three-hour opus, which originally premiered in two 90-minute installments (over two weeks) on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie'' beginning 1/27/58.
1/7/84 at 10:30 pm on WNET's "Cinema 13.'' Lang's MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944) kicks off a month of Milland thrillers on Saturday nights. It made NY TV debut 8/19/60 on WCBS' "Late Show.''
1/7/89 at 12:15 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Dieterle's 79-minute 1934 mini-epic for Warner Bros. followed Van Dyke's 149-minute MARIE ANTOINETTE (MGM, 1938), which cast Gladys George as du Barry.
1/7/94 at 2:30 am on WLIW. Goldwyn's loan-out of Niven got US theatrical rights to retitled Howard's FIRST OF THE FEW, released by RKO in 1943. NY TV debut 8/6/55 on WCBS. US copyright expired 1971, but may have been restored under Uruguay Round Act.
1/7/99 at 2:30 pm on TCM. Reportedly Earle Stanley Gardner wasn't pleased that Cortez (the original Sam Spade in 1931) was cast as Perry Mason in 1936 after Warren William left WB. William McGann replaced the original director, Alan Crosland, who died in a car accident.
