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NY TV debut 2/21/44 from 8:30 to 9:45 pm on WNBT. With few civilians sets operable because neither parts nor repairmen were available in wartime, telecast of Nigh's 1940 comedy-drama was supposedly viewed mostly in military hospitals. 
2/21/49 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm on WCBS' "The Chuck Wagon.'' 1943 western introduced Connecticut-born "Sheriff'' Bob Dixon. He sometimes had guests like pal Edward R. Murrow on 1949-51 film showcase , eventually picked up by CBS as "Chuck Wagon Playhouse.'' NY TV debut 6/6/48.
2/21/54 from 9 to 10 am on WCBS' "Breakfast Show.'' 1937 Poverty Row romance with speedboat racing from Elmer Clifton, director of DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (1922), made NY TV debut 7/30/51 on WABC.
NY TV debut 2/21/59 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Channel 2 seemed to have five-year licenses on the WB pre-'48s from AAP they began rolling out in January 1957, but as with the MGMs they didn't apparently begin for each title until the first broadcast.
NY TV debut 2/21/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "Schaefer Award Theatre.'' Holliday and Douglas, who had appeared together on Broadway in "Born Yesterday'' (1946), finally made a film together 10 years later. This time, she took Josephine Hull's stage role.
US TV debut 2/21/69 from 9 to 11 pm on "The CBS Friday Night Movie.'' Donen's 1953 classic from MGM's Jack Cummings musical unit hit the tube after most of Arthur Freed's, thanks to theatrical bookings well into the 1960s.
2/21/74 at 1:30 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Hawks and Faulkner's 1955 period bomb made NY TV debut 1/7/63 on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie'' where it impressed the hell out of us teenage viewers.
2/21/79 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' RKO's biggest hit of 1943 got the usual "dated as a dodo'' from Howard Thompson for one of its countless showings on Channel 9. But you know what? 40 years later, Potter's wartime romance holds up better than many more famous '40s films.
Undated photo of Bob and Ed.
