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NY TV premiere 2/7/44 from 8:30 to 9:40 pm on WNBT. Rosen's three-year-old Monogram stars Ford as a reporter whose honeymoon is interrupted when he sees a man fall to his death with a tell-tale piece of paper in his hand. 
2/7/54 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Lippert's 1951 French import CASABIANCA was retitled for the US market and somehow ended up listed as PRIVATE SUBMARINE.
NY TV debut 2/7/59 at 1:30 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4 Matinee.'' Between his Universal and Goldwyn periods, Wyler stopped off at Fox for 1935 romantic trifle about a prince posing as a bellhop who conveniently hooks up with a lovely lottery winner. DVD: Fox Cinema Archives.
NY TV debut 2/7/59 from 5:30 to 6:45 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' When she wasn't girlfriending Wallace Ford on Poverty Row, Rogers was doing it at MGM with Gable backup Bowman in Sidney's B-grade wartime thriller from 1942.
NY TV debut 2/7/59 from 11:15 to 1:15 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Around eight commercial breaks didn't help viewers trying to keep the flashbacks-within-flashbacks-within flashbacks straight in Curtiz' convoluted 1944 follow-up to CASABLANCA.
2/7/64 from 9 to 10:30 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' George Bailey's travails had wended their way through at least four stations since its 1956 debut on WCBS, Capra's original 130 minutes customarily butchered to fill 90 minute time slots with commercials.
2/7/64 from 5 to 6:30 pm on WABC's "Big Show.'' John Ashley absented himself from AIP's 1959 sequel to HOT ROD GANG. Allegedly filmed on location in Montville NJ, played drive-in double bills with DIARY OF A HIGH SCHOOL BRIDE.
2/7/69 from 4:30 to 6 pm on "Movie 4.'' Sequel to HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES made NY TV debut 3/17/61 on WCBS' "The Late Show,'' two and a half years after its predecessor premiered on Saturday night "Movie 4.'' After length absence, both resurfaced on "CBS Late Movie'' in 1974.
2/7/74 from 3 to 4 pm on WOR. Tourneur's 69-minute horror classic was chopped so it could fill an hour (with commercials) between Channel 9's two-hour broadcasts of NEVER A DULL MOMENT (1950) on "Movie 9'' and 3 GUNS FOR TEXAS (1968) on "The 4 O'Clock Movie.''
2/7/79 from 2:50 to 4:56 am on WNEW. Karloff was unavailable for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943) but he did this Technicolor remake of a lesser-known horror property that recycled PHANTOM's sets. Lotsa commercials padded 86-minute A. NY TV debut 9/21/61 on WCBS in black-and-white
2/7/74 at 1 am on WABC. Keaton, as Nazi general, seems to be partly sending up Von Stroheim in his penultimate feature, 1966 Italian import released posthumously by American International in the US after A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.
