The Best in Mystery

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]

Guest stars

• Agnes Moorehead
• Tom Drake
• Elizabeth Patterson
• Harry Harvey, Jr.
• Ross Elliott
• Mary Field
• Lloyd Corrigan
• Jay Novello
• George Nader
• Carolyn Jones
• Fay Roope
• Lynne Roberts
• Morris Ankrum
• Kim Spalding
• Marilyn Erskine

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. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1999). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (7th ed.). New York: The Ballentine Publishing Group. pp. 88–89. ISBN 0-345-42923-0.
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. "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 22 June 2019.

External links

• The Best in Mystery at ctva.biz
• The Best in Mystery at IMDb