The NBC Mystery Movie is the umbrella title of an American television series produced by Universal Pictures, that NBC broadcast from 1971 to 1977, sometimes split into two subsets broadcast concurrently on different nights of the week: The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie and The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.
The NBC Mystery Movie was a "wheel series", or "umbrella program" that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. In its first, 1971–72, it rotated three detective dramas that were broadcast on Wednesday nights from 8:30–10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones (7:30–9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain Time).
Springing from the success of their popular series The NBC Mystery Movie, which had debuted during the 1971-1972 season, rotating episodes of McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan & Wife, NBC also launched a clone of the umbrella series, The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie, which debuted in the original time period (the original series having been moved to Sunday nights, becoming The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie) and featured three new programs:
Banacek, starring George Peppard as Thomas Banacek, a free-lance Polish-American insurance investigator in Boston. Like Hec Ramsey, it lasted two seasons (1972–1974).
Cool Million, starring James Farentino as a former CIA agent turned private investigator and security/retrieval expert whose fee per case was one million dollars.
Madigan had Richard Widmark reprising his 1968 film role as a streetwise veteran detective of the New York City Police Department.
During the 1973–1974 season, the programs rotating on Sunday remained the same, while on Wednesday, Cool Million and Madigan were canceled and Banacek rotated with three new series:
Faraday & Company, starring Dan Dailey as a private detective who returns to Los Angeles after a quarter-century in a South American jail.
Tenafly, starring James McEachin as an African-American private detective.
The Snoop Sisters, starring Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters who routinely found mysteries which they solved.
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