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2/17/49 at 5:30 pm on WATV. Race car drive Mulhall and young ward (Darro) help out bus liner owner (Lane) in one of 12 action-packed episodes from 1934 serial from Mascot, absorbed the next year into Republic. 
NY TV debut 2/17/54 from 11:30 pm to 12:45 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' 1940 remake of the long-lost CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON (1931), the first film in the series starring Toler's predecessor, the late Warner Oland. Distributed by Unity TV.
2/17/59 at 9 am on WABC's "Morning Feature.'' Capra's 126-minute 1938 Oscar winner was butchered to fit a 90-minute time slot for this five-day run, followed by Joe Franklin. Advertised as "uncut'' for its NY TV debut 1/20/57 on WRCA's Sunday night "Movie 4.''
US TV debut 2/17/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Milland directed as well as playing the title role in THE SAFECRACKER, a 1958 MGM British production.
NY TV debut 2/17/64 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Sanders, here with his ex-wife and future sister-in-law Zsa Zsa, reportedly replaced George Brent as character loosely based on Serge Rubenstein, stock manipulator whose 1955 murder remains unsolved.
2/17/69 at 10 am on WPIX. If this was even being broadcast in color, then it was from the godawful Cinecolor reissue version of Mamoulian's 1935 landmark, finally restored to three-strip glory in the '80s. NY TV debut 9/1/44 on WNBT -- in black and white.
2/17/74 at 10:30 pm on WOR. Quite the poster tagline for Altman's collaboration with the great Sandy Dennis. "Cold turkey in an overheated oven,'' blurbs Howard Thompson, who had written NY Times' original 1969 review, which decried "psychosexual nonsense.''
NY TV debut 2/17/79 from 9 to 11 pm on WNET's "Cinema 13.'' Largely forgotten here, the Swedish director of ELVIRA MADIGAN was popular with American film critics and art house audiences of the 1970s.
