The Best in Mystery

The Best in Mystery is an American anthology and mystery television series that ran for three years in the 1950s as a summer replacement series for the crime drama The Big Story.[1]

The series premiered on NBC on July 16, 1954, and aired on Friday nights from 9 to 9:30 p.m. until September 1954.[1] The next summer it aired from July 1955 to September 1955,[1] and the following summer 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]

Guest stars

Episodes

  • Lullabye - July 16, 1954
  • Lost Kid - July 23, 1954
  • Death Makes a Pass - July 30, 1954
  • Account Closed - August 6, 1954
  • The Watchers and the Watched - August 13, 1954
  • Frozen Escape - August 20, 1954
  • Death Has No System - August 27, 1954
  • Victim Ann Norville - September 3, 1954

References

  1. 1 2 3 Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). "The Best in Mystery (Dramatic Anthology)". The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (9 ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4. Retrieved March 27, 2026.
  2. 1 2 McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 87. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  3. ↑ "(untitled brief)" (PDF). Ross Reports on Television. April 20, 1955. p. 2. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Friday (15)" (PDF). Ross Reports on Television. July 10, 1955. p. 79. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Friday(13)" (PDF). Ross Reports on Television. July 9, 1956. p. 61. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Network New Business" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 7, 1954. p. 33. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
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