List of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies titles

This is a chronological listing of the titles that were showcased on the first three seasons of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

Season 1

The first 30-week season (1961–1962) consisted of post-1948 titles from 20th Century Fox. Those films in the widescreen CinemaScope format were resized for the small screen. In terms of content, very little editing was done because the films met the broadcast standards of the time for the most part. There were several weeks when the films ran far beyond the scheduled 11pm end time. The list of films in the "episode guide" come from the TV Listings page of the Lima News, Lima Ohio.

Episode #	Airdate	Movie Title and Year	Main Cast	Network TV Run Time
1	9/23/1961	How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)	Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall	2 hours
2	9/30/1961	The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)	Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner	2 hours, 20 minutes
3	10/07/1961	Titanic (1953)	Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner	2 hours
4	10/14/1961	Garden of Evil (1954)	Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark	2 hours
5	10/21/1961	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)	James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy	2 hours
6	10/28/1961	There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)	Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe	2 hours, 25 minutes
7	11/04/1961	Soldier of Fortune (1955)	Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie	2 hours
8	11/11/1961	Halls of Montezuma (1951)	Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner	2 hours, 20 minutes
9	11/18/1961	Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)	Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie	2 hours
10	11/25/1961	Dreamboat (1952)	Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis	2 hours
11	12/02/1961	Broken Arrow (1950)	James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget	2 hours
12	12/09/1961	Man on a Tightrope (1953)	Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame	2 hours
13	12/16/1961	Destination Gobi (1953)	Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter	2 hours
14	12/23/1961	O. Henry's Full House (1952)	John Steinbeck, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark	2 hours, 25 minutes
15	12/30/1961	On the Riviera (1951)	Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet	2 hours
16	1/06/1962	What Price Glory (1952)	James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Robert Wagner	2 hours, 15 minutes
17	1/13/1962	People Will Talk (1951)	Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn	2 hours, 15 minutes
18	1/20/1962	5 Fingers (1952)	James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie	2 hours, 15 minutes
19	1/27/1962	Cheaper by the Dozen (the 1950 version)	Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy	2 hours
20	2/03/1962	The Frogmen (1951)	Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Robert Wagner	2 hours
21	2/10/1962	With A Song In My Heart (1952)	Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner	2 hours, 20 minutes
22	2/17/1962	Monkey Business (1952 film)	Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe	2 hours
23	2/24/1962	Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)	Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner	2 hours
24	3/03/1962	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)	Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe	2 hours
25	3/10/1962	The Black Rose (1950)	Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Michael Rennie	2 hours, 15 minutes
26	3/17/1962	Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)	Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill	2 hours
27	3/24/1962	No Highway in the Sky (1951)	James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns	2 hours
28	3/31/1962	Bird of Paradise (1951)	Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jack Elam	2 hours
29	4/07/1962	It Happens Every Spring (1949)	Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Ed Begley	2 hours
30	4/14/1962	Diplomatic Courier (1952)	Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Karl Malden	2 hours

Season 2

The second season (1962–1963) began on September 22, 1962, just as the first season started off, with Marilyn Monroe, this time with the television debut of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The broadcast had become a special tribute to Monroe, who had died just a month earlier. It was also a second season of 30 titles from 20th Century Fox.

Episode #	Airdate	Movie Title and Year	Main Cast	Network TV Run Time
31	9/22/1962	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn	2 hours
32	9/29/1962	Broken Lance (1954)	Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark	2 hours
33	10/06/1962	The Egyptian (1954)	Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Edmund Purdom	2 hours, 45 minutes
34	10/13/1962	Three Coins In The Fountain (1954)	Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Louis Jourdan	2 hours
35	10/20/1962	River of No Return (1954)	Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun	2 hours
36	10/27/1962	Mister Scoutmaster (1953)	Clifton Webb, Edmund Gwenn, Frances Dee	2 hours
37	11/03/1962	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)	Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Richard Boone	2 hours
38	11/10/1962	The Desert Rats (1953)	Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton	2 hours
39	11/17/1962	White Witch Doctor (1953)	Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak	2 hours
40	11/24/1962	Sailor of the King (1953)	Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller	2 hours
41	12/01/1962	Night People (1954)	Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen	2 hours
42	12/08/1962	No Down Payment (1957)	Joanne Woodward, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter	2 hours, 5 minutes
43	12/15/1962	Désirée (1954)	Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie	2 hours, 10 minutes
44	12/22/1962	Red Skies of Montana (1952)	Richard Widmark, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone	2 hours
45*	12/29/1962	Rawhide (1951 film, no relation to the CBS-TV series)	Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Jack Elam	2 hours
46	1/5/1963	Decision Before Dawn (1952)	Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Hildegard Neff	2 hours, 25 minutes
47	1/12/1963	The Sun Also Rises (1957)	Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn	2 hours, 35 minutes
48	1/19/1963	Woman's World (1954)	Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Clifton Webb	2 hours
49	1/26/1963	Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)	Humphrey Bogart, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley	2 hours
50	2/2/1963	Niagara (1953)	Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters	2 hours
51	2/9/1963	Kangaroo (1952)	Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Richard Boone	2 hours
52	2/16/1963	The Long Hot Summer (1958)	Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles	2 hours, 15 minutes
53	2/23/1963	The President's Lady (1953)	Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, John McIntire	2 hours
54	3/2/1963	The Roots of Heaven (1958)	Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Eddie Albert	2 hours, 25 minutes
55	3/9/1963	In Love and War (1958)	Robert Wagner, Hope Lange, Jeffrey Hunter	2 hours, 10 minutes
56	3/16/1963	A Certain Smile (1958)	Rossano Brazzi, Joan Fontaine, Johnny Mathis	2 hours, 5 minutes
57	3/23/1963	Fraulein (1958)	Dana Wynter, Mel Ferrer, Theodore Bikel	2 hours
58	3/30/1963	Ten North Frederick (1958)	Gary Cooper, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Stuart Whitman	2 hours
59	4/6/1963	Night and the City (1950)	Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Herbert Lom	2 hours
60	4/13/1963	I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)	Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, Gene Lockhart	2 hours

• To avoid confusion with the TV series Rawhide, 20th Century Fox renamed the film, Desperate Siege for television.

Season 3

The third season (1963-1964) began on September 21, 1963. For the third season in a row, the network opened its Saturday night movie series with a Marilyn Monroe-starring film, 1955's The Seven Year Itch. By this time, NBC had added a second movie night, Monday, to its prime-time schedule. A new package of films were acquired at a cost of $14 million to the network consisting of 42 titles from 20th Century Fox, as well as 35 post 1950 films from MGM to fill both nights. For the most part, heavy dramatic films, such as The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film) were chosen for season three of Saturday Night At The Movies, while lighter fare, such as comedies and musicals were reserved for the new Monday Night series. [1]

Episode #	Airdate	Movie Title and Year	Main Cast	Network TV Run Time
61	9/21/1963	The Seven Year Itch (1955)	Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes	2 hours, 5 minutes
62	9/28/1963	The Journey (1959) (First post-1950 MGM film to air on network TV)	Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards	2 hours, 25 minutes
63	10/5/1963	Ask Any Girl (1959)	David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young	2 hours
64	10/12/1963	The Asphalt Jungle (1950)	Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe	2 hours, 15 minutes
65	10/19/1963	The Tall Men (1955)	Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Cameron Mitchell	2 hours, 25 minutes
66	10/26/1963	Something of Value (1957)	Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier	2 hours, 15 minutes
67	11/2/1963	Let's Make Love (1960)	Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall	2 hours, 20 minutes
68	11/9/1963	The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)	Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn	3 hours, 20 minutes
69	11/16/1963	Untamed (1955)	Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan	2 hours, 10 minutes
N/A	11/23/1963	Pre-empted due to continuing NBC News coverage of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
70	11/30/1963	Count Your Blessings (1959)	Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier	2 hours
71	12/7/1963	The Left Hand of God (1955)	Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb	2 hours
72	12/14/1963	The Opposite Sex (1956)	June Allyson, Joan Collins, Leslie Nielsen	2 hours, 20 minutes
73	12/21/1963	A Man Called Peter (1955)	Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Les Tremayne	2 hours, 20 minutes
74	12/28/1963	The Secret Partner (1961)	Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee	2 hours
75	1/4/1964	Daddy Long Legs (1955)	Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Fred Clark	2 hours, 25 minutes
76	1/11/1964	Imitation General (1958) (Rescheduled from 11/23/1963)	Glenn Ford, Taina Elg, Red Buttons	2 hours
77	1/18/1964	The Naked Spur (1953)	James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan	2 hours
78	1/25/1964	Until They Sail (1957)	Jean Simmons, Paul Newman, Joan Fontaine	2 hours
79	2/1/1964	Lust for Life (1956)	Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Pamela Brown	2 hours, 25 minutes
80	2/8/1964	The Band Wagon (1953)	Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant	2 hours, 10 minutes
81	2/15/1964	Edge of the City (1957)	John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee	2 hours
82	2/22/1964	The Story of Three Loves (1953)	Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Kirk Douglas	2 hours, 25 minutes
83	2/29/1964	Violent Saturday (1955)	Victor Mature, Sylvia Sidney, Lee Marvin	2 hours
84	3/7/1964	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)	Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Jack Carson	2 hours, 5 minutes
85	3/14/1964	Black Widow (1954)	Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney	2 hours
86	3/21/1964	Man on Fire (1957)	Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens, E. G. Marshall	2 hours
87	3/28/1964	Wild River (1960)	Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Albert Salmi	2 hours, 10 minutes
88	4/4/1964	Fourteen Hours (1951)	Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Paul Douglas	2 hours
89	4/11/1964	The Vintage (1957)	Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, Theodore Bikel	2 hours
90	4/18/1964	The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)	Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger	2 hours, 10 minutes

In later seasons, films from other studios, such as Annie Get Your Gun (MGM, 1950), Sunset Boulevard (Paramount, 1950), and Sorry, Wrong Number (Paramount, 1948), would occasionally be shown. All three made their television debuts on Saturday Night at the Movies.

[1] UPI Interview with Don Bays, in charge of movies at NBC. Western Kansas Press, Great Bend, April, 27, 1963