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NY TV debut 2/2/49 from 8:30 to 9:45 pm on WPIX. Times critic Theodore Strauss (who later wrote novel source for MOONRISE) on Roach's 1941 knockoff of famous farce: "TWENTIETH CENTURY started down the tracks with a full head of steam and [this] starts off without a thimbleful.'' 
2/2/54 at 7:30 pm on WPIX's "First Show.'' Romulus Films' forgotten 1951 Ealing-style comedy was wrapping up its one-week premiere run on Channel 11's predecessor to "Million Dollar Movie.''
NY TV debut 2/2/54 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' De Toth's crackling 1948 indie noir, initially distributed to TV by Quality Films, is now owned by Paramount. Video: @KLStudioClassic
@KLStudioClassic NY TV debut 2/2/59 from 7:30 to 9 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Were entire numbers cut to fit 1934 musical's 107 minutes into a 90-minute time slot with lots of commercials?
@KLStudioClassic NY TV debut 2/2/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' After eight days of tub-thumping new Paramounts, Channel 2 reminds us it had lots of unseen features from other suppliers, in this case Screen Gems, in a vault that supposedly held 2,000 features at its peak.
@KLStudioClassic NY TV debuts 2/2/64 on WOR's "The Big Preview'' at 8 pm and "International Movietime'' at 10 pm. 1949 medical romance is still running on TCM, but has anyone seen Chevalier's 1954 French comedy about a bachelor's brood (listed as MY SEVEN LITTLE SINS) in decades?
@KLStudioClassic 2/2/69 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' This made NY TV debut 9/24/64 on Channel 2, so normally you'd expect Jones' 1954 exploitationer with an admittedly impressive cast on "The Late Late Show III'' five years later. Shot in 3-D and broadcast that way once in the '90s.
@KLStudioClassic 2/2/74 from 9 to 11:10 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' An 130-minute time slot for a 1972 sci-fi thriller that ran only 89 minutes in theaters would allow for an awful lot of commercials.
@KLStudioClassic 2/2/74 at 11:30 pm on WPIX's "Film Festival.'' Due to their late arrival, Goldwyns were the only major feature package to play on just two NYC broadcast stations. WCBS buried 8/15/66 debut of Arzner's 1934 flop at 1:20 am, but WPIX was willing to give Sten a bit more respect.
@KLStudioClassic US TV debut 2/2/79 at 12:40 am on "The CBS Late Movie.'' Jim Hutton's last theatrical feature (1975), directed by Ray Danton, slipped in after a Friday episode of the straight-to-late-night "The New Avengers.''
@KLStudioClassic 2/2/74 from 3 to 6 pm on WHNB's "Saturday Afternoon at the Movies.'' No matter how NBC's Hartford-New Britain CT affiliate sliced them, "imaginative" Technicolor double feature was not a great fit in 3-hour time slot even with its minimal commercial load I remember from this era.
