The Best in Mystery
American television series
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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
