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NY TV debut 1/18/54 on WCBS' "The Late Show'' at 11:30 pm. Channel 2 continues rolling out the Fox Chans in random order with Oland's 16th and final appearance as the sleuth before his 1938 death. Distributed by Unity TV minus the Fox logo. 
NY TV debut 1/18/59 at 10:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Channel 4 was carrying almost all of the network color shows available in New York at this point. But Technicolor films like Ratoff's 1945 musical with a Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin score were generally shown in black and white.
US TV debut 1/18/64 from 9 to 11:30 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Though Mann's 1953 western runs a taut 93 minutes, for some reason it was listed for a 150-minute time slot. Why?
NY TV debut 1/18/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Unlike Channel 7's "Best of Broadway,'' Channel 2 was eschewing post-network titles. Followed by HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO, CRY WOLF and A STOLEN LIFE on three-part Saturday night "Late Late Show'' from 1:20 am to around 7
1/18/69 at 1:20 am on WABC's "Best of Broadway.'' Sturges' 1953 Mexico-set noir opened at the Mayfair 3/30/53 but its 69-minute runtime ensured Stanwyck's first (1953) after a temporary retirement mostly played on double bills with the likes of I LOVE MELVIN.
1/18/73 at 11:30 pm on WTIC. Hartford affiliate on Channel 3 (soon renamed WFSB) delayed the Friday "CBS Late Movie'' to Sunday nights so it could present it own local syndicated shows on Fridays. No wonder I was driving back to NYC almost every weekend with choices like this.
1/18/79 at 1 pm on WOR's "Cinema 9.'' 1951 The 1,475-seat Globe showed films from 1935 to 1957. Since then, strictly legit as the Lunt-Fontanne with entrance on 46th. Haskin's 1951 Nat Holt western made US TV debut 3/6/65 on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.''
