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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]

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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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  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 22 June 2019.


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