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For a while I swear it was Family of Cops. I thought this was just a delusion I shared with a friend, until I worked on the Radio Times film desk – where they run a vast database which can indeed tell you every time a film has been shown, either terrestrial or satellite – and found Five really were showing Family of Cops every couple of months. Tremors and Midnight Run actually seem rather good choices for repeat runs.

mark it appears on stateside tv but pretty much only on turner classics (sadly the case now for any movie pre-godfather w/ the exception of 60s bond/eastwood/mcqueen)(note this)(as that joke notes ‘shawshank redemption’ holds the title but there was a time believe it or not when the answer was very possibly yes really BEASTMASTER).

Tremors used to be shown almost daily on the Cable SCI-FI channel!

I have def. seen Citizen Kane on UK terrestrial telly, tho’ not for quite some time (but then how often do any B+W movies from the 1940s get shown on mainstream TV these days?)

Anyway, shurely the correct answer is Carry On Up The Khyber.

“but then how often do any B+W movies from the 1940s get shown on mainstream TV these days?)”

Plenty, actually, but normally, as noted by Marcello, in the pensioner-friendly lunchtime slot, or else at about 12:30am on BBC2. About three years ago they had a great week of Robert Mitchum films on BBC2. There was a Nick Ray season not that long ago, and they showed Fritz Lang’s big American films (including the Big Heat) on BBC2 in the after midnight slot in the last couple of months.
I’ve definitely seen Kane on TV, and I can prove it, because I’ve got it on tape (as well as The Magnificent Ambersons).