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2/9/49 at 7 pm on WATV. Paramount, which never knew what to do with Sheridan, loaned her out for 1935 Poverty Row Northern before an unbilled bit in DeMille's THE CRUSADES. NY TV debut 6/9/48 on WATV. 
2/9/54 at 11:30 pm on WATV. Phil Rosen directs 1936 oddity based on an idea by President Roosevelt developed by six writers plus co-screenwriter Nathaniel West. Channel 13 repeated it the following afternoon. Copyright expired 1964.
NY TV debut 2/9/59 from 7:30 to 9 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Stevenson's 1949 anti-Communist jeremiad, reworked at Hughes' request by an uncredited Nicholas Ray, was shown under its general release title THE WOMAN ON PIER 13.
NY TV debut 2/9/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Sherman's noir-ish 1948 western RELENTLESS, also featuring Akim Tamiroff, Barton MacLane and Mike Mazurki, was broadcast in black-and-white.
NY TV debut 2/9/59 at 1 am on WCBS' "The Late Late Show.'' Perry Mason and Della Street were turned into Nick and Nora style wisecracking tipplers for diverting second (1935) episode in the series, which for some reason screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the '60s.
NY TV debut 2/9/64 from 8 to 10 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview.'' Continental distributed Leder's 1960 indie biopic filmed at the old Biograph Studio in the Bronx, also home to A FACE IN THE CROWD and THE FUGITIVE KIND.
NY TV debut 2/9/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Lanza plays Fontaine's protege, manipulated by manager Vincent Price in Mann's soapy 1956 musical drama based loosely on a novel by James M. Cain.
NY TV debut 2/9/69 from 7 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "The Big Preview.'' Baker, who turned down SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING with Albert Finney, instead directed 1961 cult western set in Mexico.
US TV debut 2/9/74 from 9 to 11 pm on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.'' Heston reportedly wanted Welles (not Boris Sagal) to direct 1971 adaptation of Matheson's novel, previously filmed as THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1966, Vincent Price) and later as I AM LEGEND (2007, Will Smith)
2/9/79 from 2:23 to 4:53 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' When it opened 9/5/40 at the Capitol, Bosley Crowther thought "there hasn't been a picture in a long time to compare with'' underrated Conway's box-office gusher. NY TV debut 3/2/58 from 11:15 to 1:30 am on "The Late Show.''
2/9/74 from 3 to 4:30 pm on WHNB's "Saturday Afternoon at the Movies.'' Huston's 1942 thriller, completed by an uncredited Vincent Sherman after he left for wartime service, was broadcast on Channel 30, the NBC affiliate in New Britain CT now known as WVIT.
