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1/19/49 at 8 pm on WATV/13 Rosen's 1936 Poverty Row immigrant crime drama made its New York City TV debut 5/17/46 on WABD/5. 
1/19/54 at 6:15 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Lamont's 1937 Grand National adventure with singing cowboy Houston (who died of a heart attack in 1944) was also shown on TV under its reissue title, SPOILERS OF THE SOUTH SEAS.
1/19/59 at 1 pm on WNTA's "Quality Theatre.'' You can smell the desperation in struggling Channel 13's NY Times ad for the launch of its new daytime showcase. In fact, WOR was showing the "high calibre'' NOTORIOUS at 1:30, followed by THE GARDEN OF ALLAH (1936) at 3. All repeats.
1/19/59 at 5 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Robert Rockwell, best remembered as Mr. Boynton on "Our Miss Brooks,'' plays a Commie dupe in R.G. Springsteen's risible 1949 contribution to Hollywood's Red Scare cycle. Blu-ray: Olive Films.
NY TV debut 1/19/59 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Channel 9 had been showing post-1948 RKO's for a while. 1951 comedy had been shot in 1948, held back partly because of Hughes' pique at Sinatra, spite-billed third and conspicuously missing from poster.
1/19/59 from 12:45 am to 2:15 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' IMDB says this was the NY TV debut of 1930 Jenny Lind biopic (with Beery as P.T. Barnum), which had apparently been postponed from an earlier listed premiere on Channel 2.
NY TV debuts 1/19/64 at 8 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview'' and 10 pm on WABC's "World's Biggest Movies.'' Italian-made double feature made for a really big night for fans of Mitchell, who 55 years later is featured posthumously in Welles' THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND.
NY TV debut 1/19/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Even Channel 2 felt compelled to engage in some peplum pushing with Hollywood refugees. 1959 Italian epic, originally intended for RKO release, listed under US title DESERT DESPERADOS (THE SINNER in the UK).
1/19/69 at 2:55 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show II.'' @nytimesarts' peerless Howard Thompson blurbs: "A straight, fast mop-up cancelling out, for once, nearly everybody but Scott and a horseless Kay Francis, yep, Kay Francis.''
@nytimesarts US TV debut 1/19/74 from 9 to 11:30 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' It was still fairly rare for directors to get mentioned in network ads for movies. Kazan probably would probably have been happier to forget this 1969 mistake.
@nytimesarts NY TV debut 1/19/74 on WABC's "11:30 Movie.'' Channel 7 gives its patented snarky-ad treatment to William Wyler's 1965 thriller. It was against a post-CBS appearance of THE NANNY (Hammer-Fox, 1965) with Bette Davis on WCBS' Saturday night "Late Show.''
@nytimesarts 1/9/79 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Boyer plays Indian prime minister in C. Vidor's 1953 Ladd vehicle that shares title (in the US) with a 1934 French-British co-production in which Boyer portrays Japanese naval officer. US TV debut 4/4/65 on "NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies.''
