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NY TV debut 2/1/49 from 8:30 to 10:15 pm on WPIX. Roach's Milestone-directed 1939 prestige bid was initially included in the same 36-film package as the Laurel and Hardys, distributed by Regal Television Pictures. 
NY TV debut 2/1/54 from 11:30 pm to 1 am on WCBS' "Late Show.'' The only bona-fide "A'' western in Unity's Zane Grey series licensed from Paramount, retitled BLAZING ARROWS for TV. Copyright expired 1959. Cooper insured it was ubiquitous on VHS from the late '70s into the '90s.
NY TV debut 2/1/59 at 10:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Third of Mr. A's films to get an ad in Times' TV section for its premiere, following DISRAELI (WABD) and HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD (WNTA).
NY TV debut 2/1/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "Late Show.'' Ladd's 1942 breakthrough, Channel 2's 13th pre-'48 Paramount premiere in eight days, launched what the station dubbed "Fabulous February,'' at least in its print ads.
US TV debut 2/1/64 at 9 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' MGM was about to lose its option on Irving Stone's biography, originally acquired for Spencer Tracy in the '40s, when Douglas was signed for 1956 biopic under Minnelli's direction.
NY TV debut 2/1/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "Late Show.'' Mate's 1955 horse opera was first time Robinson and Stanwyck, cast as father and daughter, acted together though both were in DOUBLE INDEMNITY as well as FLESH AND FANTASY.
NY TV debut 2/1/69 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Farrow's 1954 western noir is new to me. Maybe @selfstyledsiren knows it?
@selfstyledsiren 2/1/69: I've been trying to ignore this, but WCBS for some reason renamed "The Late Late Show'' as "Weekend Theater'' on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights beginning in December 1968. The old name was back by May 1969.
@selfstyledsiren 2/1/74 at 10 am on WPIX. Eighth (1943) of Paramount's 11-film Aldrich series, derived from a Broadway hit with still-extant Lydon replacing Jackie Cooper after the first two, made NY TV debut 8/19/64 on WCBS. Later a fixture on AMC.
@selfstyledsiren 2/1/79 at midnight on WOR's "Late Movie.'' Dern's manager directed obscure '60s knockoff of THE WILD ONES with Dern, then-wife Ladd, Nicholson, Stanton and top-billed Mitchell, who later appeared in Welles' recently-released THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND.
