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NY TV debut 2/14/44 at 8:30 pm on WNBT. Corrigan's forgotten Rogers and Hart musical, second and final Technicolor production from independent Pioneer Pictures Corp., absorbed into Selznick International. Distributed by RKO in 1936, re-released by Film Classics in Cinecolor. 
NY TV debut 2/14/49 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. on WCBS. Monogram's ad department struggles with complex racial politics of 1940 western that made its NY TV debut 6/6/48 on Channel 2.
2/14/54 at 11:30 pm on WNBT. It's two former child stars named Jackie for the price of one in Monogram's 1948 sequel to its 1947 service comedy KILROY WAS HERE.
NY TV debut 2/14/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Walsh's 1941 WB remake arrived on TV decades before the original ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Paramount, 1933) surfaced. Walsh's own 1948 musical remake made its NY TV debut 4/18/61, also on Channel 2.
NY TV debut 2/14/59 at 11:15 pm on WRCA's "Movie 4.'' Herman Mankiewicz adapts Thurber story for Dwan's 1941 Fox football musical with an amazing cast and five Leo Robin- Ralph Rainger songs including "Hail To Bolenciecwcz."
2/14/64 at 1 and 2:35 am on WCBS' "The Late Show Show.'' Channel 2 was having some Valentine's Day fun, with Lanfield's 1937 comedy depicting Winchell-Bernie "feud'' making NY TV debut ahead of Marshall's 1937 FIRE, which bowed 2/1/4/62 on "The Early Show.'' Both long MIA.
2/14/69 at 1 am on WABC's "Best of Broadway.'' "Vivid, stunningly beautiful and all but forgotten,'' blurbs Thompson of Castellani's 1954 version before moving in for the kill. "Two weaknesses: R. and J.''
US TV debut 2/14/74 from 9 to 12:45 am on "The CBS Thursday Network.'' At least Lean's 1970 romantic epic was not shown in two parts.
2/14/79 at 1 pm on "Movie 9.'' Thompson claimed '41 was the best of the Streets, but I've never seen '32 one with Dunne, which does not appear to have turned up on TV until 1990. NY TV debut 4/13/66 on WCBS. BTW, here's the "Movie 9'' intro:
If 1944 strikes you early for a feature film broadcast, starting in July I'll be tweeting out the very earliest regularly scheduled movies shown on US television, from 80 years ago.
