TROLLEY SONG and HALLOWEEN sequence deleted for TV broadcast.

I, too, saw this broadcast. I believe it was 1980. It was Ben Hunter's
Matinee on KTTV channel 11. He was on for years. In the early to mid
'70's he used to run his films at noon entirely uncut (although they
ran three hours, due to commercials and even an adoption segment!!).

Hunter was very warm, very classy. He would be sitting in his living
room set (remember the fish tank behind him?), casually dressed with
a cup of coffee.

Sad note: In December, 1980, Hunter died of a heart attack on a Monday
or Tuesday evening. He had appeared THAT DAY, running a Joseph Cotton
picture. I remember watching him discuss Cotton. Then hearing on the
L.A. news that he had died that night.

By the way, it was in 1980 that they cut Ben Hunter's Matinee down to
a two-hour format. Suddenly, his film were cut to pieces in order to fit
the time frame.

Ahhh...memories indeed!! Funny that you and I would remember this
horrible cut to "St. Louis." Anyway, he loved Judy Garland and would run
a lot of her pictures ("The Clock", "For me and My Gal", "Girl Crazy").
He once told a story of how he was a graveyard disc jockey in L.A. and
that Judy would call him in the middle of the night, looking for someone
to chat with, due to insomnia and loneliness.