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NY TV debut 2/26/54 at 11:30 pm on WATV. Auer fascinatingly depicts 1939 TV in bizarre hoax story with Barbier as heroic kiddie show host. Recycles Manhattan effects footage from DELUGE (KBS-Admiral/RKO, 1933), which itself escaped early TV showings because Republic bought it. 
NY TV debut 2/26/59 at 11:15 pm on WOR's "Shock Theater.'' Grinde directs first (1939) of Karloff's four resurrection melodramas for Columbia, included in Screen Gems' "Shock of Shock'' package. Hosted by the inimitable Zacherley.
2/26/64 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Hitchcock's 1950 thriller, his first shot in England since the war, made NY TV debut Friday 1/11/63 on Channel 2 during newspaper strike. By 10/27/70 it was playing on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie,'' which had abandoned 7-day format.
9/26/69 from 9:30 to 11 am on WNEW. Many of UA's post-1950 TV titles hit TV ahead of the majors. Karlson's hard-hitting 1953 noir made NY TV debut 12/5/57 on WRCA's "Movie 4.''
9/26/74 at 11:30 pm on WNET. Channel 13's "Dream Week'' programming included a bunch of silent shorts licensed from Paul Killiam, as well as a single episode of the Pearl White serial THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE (1914).
9/26/79 from 1 to 3 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' The fourth "RKO library" title to premiere on "Million Dollar Movie'' (4/02/56), the best (1946) of O'Brien's RKO period originally had its complex 93 minute-plot trimmed to fit then-standard 90-minute time slots for its one-week run.
