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NY TV debut 1/27/49 from 9 to 10:30 pm on WATV. Lubitsch's 1925 Wilde adaptation was one of the higher-profile silents shown on Channel 7. 
NY TV debut 1/27/49 from 9 to 10 on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' 1944 mystery comedy from Poverty Row's Producers Releasing Corporation, distributed to TV by Madison Pictures.
NY TV debut 1/27/54 from 6:15 to 7:25 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Chan's entire family was on view (albeit briefly) in Harry Lachman's fun 1936 series entry, initially distributed by Unity Television minus the original Fox logo.
NY TV debut 1/27/59 from 5:30 to 7 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Highly appropriate title for Lewis Allen's 1945 follow-up to THE UNINVITED, which unlike its predecessor has been unavailable for decades due to rights issues.
NY TV debut 1/27/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Mark Sandrich directs 1941 adaptation of Samson Raphaelson play that starred Gertrude Lawrence, Donald Cook and Glenn Anders on Broadway in the 1930-40 season.
US TV debut 1/27/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Fuller's 1955 noir, a departure for a film series generally aimed more at women, was filmed on location in Japan.
NY TV debut 1/27/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Tracy played Ruth Gordon's father in Cukor's 1953 adaptation of her autobiographical play, a role portrayed on Broadway by Fredric March. Anthony Perkins' film debut.
1/27/69 at 9:30 am on WNEW's "Fortune Movie.'' Protypical medical movie, first of many from MGM, was based on Pulitzer play by Sidney Kingsley. First of seven films teaming Gable and Loy, and the only one released before the Production Code was fully enforced in July 1934.
1/27/74 at 1:25 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Hitchcock's 1951 masterpiece was slotted by Channel 2 on a Sunday night after an off-network "Name of the Game'' rerun. NY TV debut 7/11/61 on WOR's "The Big Preview.''
1/27/79 at 11 pm on WNET's "Cinema 13.'' 1940 British drama set in a Welsh mining town. NY TV debut 6/18/45 on WNBT, as WNBC was known from 1941-1954.
1/27/2010 at 8 pm on TCM. Final night of "Shadows of Russia'' brings first US broadcast of McCarey's 1952 anti-Communist drama since two showings on ABC in 1973. Even with outtakes from STRANGERS ON A TRAIN used after Walker's death, hasn't been shown since, but it's on DVD.
1/27/2010 at 10 pm on TCM. The evening's other "Shadows of Russia'' debut was somehow Oscar nominated for Best Feature Documentary of 1951, but Gordon Douglas' 1951 noir actually holds up pretty well as entertainment.
Here's my "Shadows of Russia'' collaborator, Comrade @selfstyledsiren, on the final night including THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE BEDFORD INCIDENT, SCARLET DAWN and THE DOUGHGIRLS. selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2010/01/shadow…
Coincidentally, I've been reading an advance copy of @shawnlevy's upcoming book "Castle on Sunset'' about the Chateau Marmont. In a section on one-time resident Perkins, Levy mentions in passing that MGM "didn't care for'' THE ACTRESS and "barely gave it a release.''
