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NY TV debut Sunday 2/8/59 from 10:30 pm to 12:20 am on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' Irving Cummings' 1940 Fox musical biopic with Edward Arnold reprising 1934 role as Diamond Jim Brady. Interrupted for 10 minutes of news at 11 and followed by repeat of DILLINGER (1945). 
NY TV debut 2/8/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Even as it worked its way through huge contracts of pre-'48 Hollywood fare, Channel 2 continued premiering later British films like this droll 1956 black comedy with the incomparable Mr. Sim.
US TV debut 2/8/64 from 9 to 11 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Even MGM's ad department thought Minnelli's 1953 delight was better than SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
NY TV debut 2/8/64 at 11:15 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' A double dose of Minnelli AND Oscar Levant for Channel 4 viewers tonight! 1955 drama is really all about the drapes.
NY TV 2/8/64 on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' I'd honestly forgotten that Darrieux is in Rossen's 1956 snoozer of an epic. Channel 2 wouldn't begin regular broadcasts of films in color for another year.
2/8/69 at 5 pm on WCBS. Channel 2 replaced weekday "Early Show'' with Mike Douglas, but it continued most Saturdays. NY TV debut 9/18/61 on WCBS. Except for TARZAN THE APE MAN, all the Tarzans were distributed to local stations by Warners via 1967 merger with Seven Arts.
US TV debut 2/8/74 at 11:30 pm on "The CBS Late Movie.'' PG-rated, gender-bending 1971 shocker from the director of A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) is the Tiffany Network's Friday night horror offering this week.
2/8/74 from 2:10 to 4:12 am on WCBS' "Late Show.'' Most of Channel 2's post-'50 WBs at this point had premiered on WOR or WNBC in the '60s, but this one debuted on WCBS 11/2/62, albeit in black-and-white.
