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NY TV debut 1/11/49 from 8 to 9:30 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' John Boulting's feature directing debut, starring Richard Attenborough and featuring Robinson as a flight instructor, was made for the Royal Air Force Film Unit and released to UK theaters in 1945 by RKO. 
NY TV debut 1/11/54 from 6:15 to 7:25 pm on WCBS' "Early Show.'' Viewers weary of Republic B's were treated to Humberstone's 1936 series peak, replete with Karloff as amnesiac singer, an Oscar Levant mock opera and William Demarest as a racist police sergeant bested by Chan.
NY TV debut 1/11/59 at 10:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Ford claimed that he "raised hell'' in unsuccessful attempt to get out of directing potboiling 1938 salute to British colonialism with brothers Greene, Sanders, Niven and Henry setting out to clear late father Smith's name.
NY TV debut 1/11/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Channel 2's first pre-1948 Paramounts would begin arriving in a couple of weeks, but they still had plenty of high-profile Golden Age titles from MGM (like Conway's 1936 screwball gem), WB and other studios to roll out
US TV debut 1/11/64 at 9 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Marshall's 1958 military comedy was originally scheduled to arrive on 11/23/63 but postponed because entertainment programming was pre-empted due to JFK's assassination the day before.
NY TV debut 1/11/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Webb's remarkable run of films for Fox included Neame's 1956 thriller about a famous British military hoax in World War II.
NY TV debut 1/11/64 at 11:45 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' Mamoulian's 1957 musical remake of NINOTCHKA was in the same syndication package of 30 post-'48 MGMs as THE TENDER TRAP, THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME and I'LL CRY TOMORROW.
1/11/69 at 2:30 pm on WOR. Arthur Lubin's 1939 entry in Universal's amalgamated "Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys'' series also offered the talents of Mary Carlisle, Buster Crabbe, El Brendel, Victor Jory and Robert Armstrong.
1/11/69 at 9 pm on WNJU's "Theatro Espectacular.'' Even the ever-formidable Rowland V. Lee couldn't put over the wildly miscast Abel as D'Artagnan in 1935 RKO flop, shown in a Spanish-dubbed version on Newark-based Channel 47.
1/11/74 at 4 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Robert Altman's remake, THIEVES LIKE US, opened in Manhattan exactly one month after this broadcast. Ray's striking directorial debut (shot in 1947, but not released until 1949) made NY TV debut 5/21/56 on "Million Dollar Movie.''
1/11/79 at 11:30 pm on WOR's "Late Movie.'' Busy Scott's incredibly varied filmography even encompassed Enright's 1945 Buck adaptation with "primitive passions!..amid the devastation of daily bombings!'' NY TV debut 5/20/57 on -- you guessed it -- "Million Dollar Movie.''
1/11/84 at 8 pm on WPIX. Channel 11 was showing the Fox Marilyns in prime time all week. Wilder's adaptation of Broadway play w/Walter Matthau and Gena Rowlands is a wonderful time capsule of mid-century Manhattan, including a cameo by soon-vanished Third Avenue elevated subway.
1/11/89 at 3:35 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Is Dunne strong-willed enough to resist the hypnotic powers of her vengeful former college classmate, "half-caste'' Loy? George Archainbaud's 1932 thriller, seldom seen at this point, is a real jaw-dropper.
1/11/94 at 10 am on AMC. Thanks to Mann, Huston's final screen performance (1950) is one of his most memorable, matched by Stanwyck as his daddy-obsessed daughter in one-of-a-kind Freudian western.
1/11/99 at 1 pm on TCM. Part of a daytime tribute to once hot prospect Alda, whose diminished billing in Sherman's 1947 noir indicated he would soon disappear from Warner's contract list, as would Sheridan.
