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NY TV debut 1/10/44 at 8:40 am. A "New and Surprising'' Moore in what turned out to be the silent star's final screen appearance. Vignola's 1934 Poverty Row remake first turned up on TV 75 years ago tonight. Copyright expired 1962. 
1/10/49 from 9 to 10:15 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' Lead in Samuel Bronston's 1943 indie, from Budd Schulberg yarn about prisoners' wives, was earlier going to be Jean Arthur, Claire Trevor or Glenda Farrell. NY TV debut 7/26/47 on WCBS. Copyright expired 1971.
1/10/54 at 9 pm on WOR. Powell, a popular radio performer, plays runaway teenage film star "Jane Powell'' in her film debut. Fields' penultimate screen appearance. Simon's 1944 musical was independently released for UA release. NY TV debut 5/6/52 on WCBS.
NY TV debut 1/10/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' "A theme that was old when BERTHA THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL [1926] was new,'' writes John Douglas Eames in "The MGM Story'' of 1946 romantic drama, which made a "fortune'' due to its popular (if chemistry-free) stars.
1/10/64 at 9 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' Preminger's 1949 noir made its NY TV debut 12/05/60 on WNTA's "Picture of the Week,'' which premiered a package of post-'48 Foxes a season ahead of "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Currently out of print on DVD.
1/1/69 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Welles' 1957 Hollywood comeback, a popular attraction in repertory houses more than a half century ago, made its NY TV debut 11/4/67 on Channel 2's eponymous film showcase.
1/10/74 at 1 pm on WNEW's "Flashing Phrase Flick.'' Quizmaster Ed Ladd hosted Cummings' 1941 western about what Howard Thompson described as "a Confederate Joan of Arc. Mostly bunkum, abetted by good battle scenes and Chill Wills.''
1/10/74 from 3 to 4 pm on WOR. I have no idea what Channel 9 called the once-a-week slot between its 1 and 4 pm weekday movies, otherwise occupied by "Ironside'' reruns. Today showing Stoloff's "rather offbeat crime story'' (RKO, 1936) per "Tiny" Thompson.
1/10/79 from 2:20 to 4:16 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Curtiz' excellent 1950 sorta-remake of Hawks' TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT made NY TV debut 9/22/62 on WNBC's Saturday late-night "Movie 4.'' Now available from @criterion after lengthy period of unavailability.
1/10/84 at 3 am on WOR's "9 All Night.'' "It will leave audiences yearning for that quiet, sunny little hotel in 'Psycho,' '' @nytimesarts' Eugene Archer wrote when Mario Bava's BLACK SUNDAY opened 3/8/61 on the bottom of a "mirth and mystery show'' at RKO's neighborhood theaters
1/10/89 at 12:15 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Thorpe's 1936 dog yarn set in the hills of Missouri was one of many MGM, WB and RKO oldies featured during Turner Network Television's phase as a proto-TCM with commercials.
1/10/94 at 7:15 am. AMC had 150 RKOs, including Hively's obscure wartime B. Climaxes with the head of the spy ring leaping out a window at the top of the Washington Monument, according to Frank S. Nugent's spoiler-ific review of its 3/28/39 opening at the Rialto in Times Square.
1/10/99 at midnight on TCM. I wrote a lengthy piece on Griffith's highly problematic cinematic landmark for its 100th anniversary in 2015. Unfortunately I ended it with a reference to a then-upcoming film with the same title. nypost.com/2015/02/07/why…
