Anecdotes

According to the first television schedule issued by NBC in 1941, this was the first feature movie broadcast on New York's first television station WNBT (7/2/41 at 9:00 pm) after it graduated from its experimental status as W2XBS and was officially christened WNBT (Channel 1) on 6/29/41. Post-WWII NYC television viewers also got an early look at it when it was re-broadcast 8/17/47 on WCBS (Channel 2). In Detroit it first aired 10/27/48 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Baltimore 6/17/49 on WAAM (Channel 13), in Washington DC 6/29/49 on WMAL (Channel 7), in Salt Lake City 8/30/49 on KDYL (Channel 4) and in Cincinnati Sunday 1/1/50 on WCPO (Channel 7). West Coast fans finally got a look at it in Los Angeles 6/18/51 on KFI (Channel 9) and in San Francisco 5/15/52 on KRON (Channel 4).

Used props from The Invisible Ray (1935).