SilverWook said:
One little detail about the tv footage I had forgotten about is that there was a title card with a date before the auditorium scene with Loomis that's gone missing. Did any of the previous releases have that? I can't dig out my Criterion to check at the moment.
I dug out my Criterion CAV LD and checked for you.
At the end of Chapter 13 and beginning of Chapter 14 (auditorium scene) there's a title card that reads, "Smith's Grove, Illinois" followed by "May 1, 1964".