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NY TV debut 2/16/49 at 8:30 pm on WATV. Bennet's 1935 indie distributed theatrically via States Rights system casts La Rue and Norton, usually seen as heavies and drunks, as heroic reporter and gangster. 
2/16/54 from 7 to 8 pm on WOR. De Forest Kelley makes screen debut as writer who fears murderous dreams are real in 1947 Pine-Thomas thriller released by Paramount. Same director, Maxwell Shane, remade Cornell Woolrich story as NIGHTMARE (1955).
2/16/59 from 7:30 to 9 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Lots of dream sequences in Kanin's 1941 comedy as Freudian-influenced Rogers once again demonstrates romantic ambivalence like only she can.
2/16/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Channel 2 oversells Robert Florey's modest thriller, shot before Pearl Harbor but premiered on Christmas Eve 1941. Starring a real-life member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, who decided to do this instead of BLUES IN THE NIGHT.
2/16/64 at 8 pm on WOR's "Big Preview'' and 10 pm on WABC's "World's Biggest Movies.'' Fairly recent European action pictures were quite the ticket on Sunday nights 55 years ago. ABC was having trouble filling the 10 o'clock time slot, so viewers got local movies instead.
NY TV debut 2/16/69 at 10 pm on WOR's "The Adult Flick.''
2/16/74: Late-night offerings among 28 theatrical features on NYC's TV stations this Saturday, including HEIDI and CHARGE OF THE LIFE BRIGADE (both 1936) on WNEW as well as a Pier Angeli '60s double feature (ONE STEP TO HELL and SPY IN YOUR EYE) on WPIX.
2/16/74 at 3 pm on WHNB's "Saturday Afternoon at the Movies'' and midnight on WHNB's "The Late Show.'' At the time, I was living 110 miles away in Hartford, where we didn't get NYC stations and Channel 30, the NBC affiliate, showed classics only on Saturdays.
US TV debut 2/16/79 from 9 to 11:16 pm on "The ABC Friday Night Movie.'' Precisely listed end time was for the benefit of VCR owners, who could not fit Ashby's 1975 comedy onto a two-hour tape, which generally had a capacity of 130 minutes, unless they paused for commercials.
