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The Best in Mystery is an American anthology and mystery television series that ran for three years as a summer replacement series for the crime drama The Big Story. [1]
The series aired on NBC from July 16, 1954, to September 3, 1954, presenting eight episodes on Friday nights from 9 to 9:30 p.m.,[ citation needed] from July 1955 to September 1955, [1] and from July 13, 1956, to August 31, 1956. [2] The 1955 broadcasts featured MCA-TV productions, most of which had been broadcast on The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse [3] or Studio 57. [4] Episodes aired in 1956 featured Dick Powell as Willie Dante, owner of the San Francisco night club Dante's Inferno. [2] They were first broadcast as part of Four Star Playhouse on CBS. [5]
The program was sponsored on alternate weeks by Simoniz and American Tobacco Company, [6] with American Tobacco and the Toni Company alternating in 1956. [5]
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verification. (June 2019) |
The Best in Mystery is an American anthology and mystery television series that ran for three years as a summer replacement series for the crime drama The Big Story. [1]
The series aired on NBC from July 16, 1954, to September 3, 1954, presenting eight episodes on Friday nights from 9 to 9:30 p.m.,[ citation needed] from July 1955 to September 1955, [1] and from July 13, 1956, to August 31, 1956. [2] The 1955 broadcasts featured MCA-TV productions, most of which had been broadcast on The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse [3] or Studio 57. [4] Episodes aired in 1956 featured Dick Powell as Willie Dante, owner of the San Francisco night club Dante's Inferno. [2] They were first broadcast as part of Four Star Playhouse on CBS. [5]
The program was sponsored on alternate weeks by Simoniz and American Tobacco Company, [6] with American Tobacco and the Toni Company alternating in 1956. [5]