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NY TV debut 2/3/49 at 9 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' PRC's first color release (1945) co-starred Tim Holt's sister. 
NY TV debut 2/3/54 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Hitler has a cameo via newsreel footage in H. Bruce Humberstone's solid 1937 mystery. The series moved to WABD/5, which showed them on Saturday afternoons, when Channel 2 was through with them.
2/3/59 at 10 am on WNEW's "10 O'Clock Movie.'' Lyric tenor Melton never caught on as an actor, but Louis King's 1937 musical, his third and final acting role, introduced Donald O'Connor.
2/3/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Third and final (1952) film collaboration of Mr. and Mrs. Bette Davis, with her appearing in a supporting role.
2/3/64 at 4:50 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show III.'' Frank S. Nugent praised McLaglen's "blusteringly perfect performance'' in The Times when "rowdy melodrama'' opened 10/23/36 at the Roxy. Just try to see it now.
2/3/69 at noon on WNEW's "Dialing for Dollars.'' Farrow's 1947 return of Holden and Hayden to Hollywood after World War II service was interrupted for game show segments as well as commercials.
2/3/74 at 1 pm on WNEW's "Metromedia Movie.'' Channel 5 ran a double feature until 5 pm on Sundays for decades until they gave up on rigid two-hour time slots.
2/3/79 at 1:30 am on "The WABC Late Movie.'' Sam Katzman's 1967 quickie was loosely inspired by real-life curfew riots in West Hollywood.
