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1/23/49 from 7 to 8:30 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' Based on a Broadway play by Nora Ephron's parents, 1944 comedy made NY TV debut 6/8/46 on WNBT, as WNBC was known in those days. 
NY TV debut 1/23/49 at 8:30 pm on WATV. Keene's vast filmography, dominated by westerns, ranged from DeMille's THE GODLESS GIRL (under his birth name, George Duryea) to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.
1/23/54 at 2:30 pm on WPIX. Rinty IV and Bobby Blake headlined a double feature that also included A GIRL, A BOY AND A DOG with Sharyn Moffett.
NY TV debut 1/23/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Buster Keaton supposedly did some uncredited direction on Buzzell's 1946 remake of LIBELED LADY. The next year, Wynn's wife divorced him and married Johnson. In Technicolor but broadcast in monochrome.
NY TV debut 1/23/64 from 1 to 3:15 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show.'' Character great George received Best Actress Oscar nomination for Ruggles' Grade-A 1938 woman's picture, sadly less well known than The Three Stooges' VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLEY (1938).
US TV debut 1/23/69 on "The CBS Thursday Night Movies.'' Ford and O'Sullivan were reprising their Broadway roles in Yorkin's 1965 comedy, produced by his partner Norman Lear.
1/23/74 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Pichel's 1947 noir made NY TV debut 3/24/58 on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.''
US TV debut 1/23/79 from 8 to 11 on "NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies.'' Interrupted at 9 pm for President Carter's State of the Union Address.
