According to the Brooks & Marsh book, here are the rotating series from Mystery Movie's run on NBC, season-by-season:
1971-72: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan & Wife (McCloud having debuted the previous season as part of "Four-In-One") 1972-73: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan, Hec Ramsey (Sunday); Banacek, Cool Million, Madigan (Wednesday) 1973-74: same as 1972-73 season Sundays; Banacek, Faraday & Company, Tenafly, The Snoop Sisters (Wednesday until January, then Tuesdays); 1974-75: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan, Amy Prentiss 1975-76: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan, McCoy 1976-77: Columbo, McCloud, McMillan, Quincy M.E. (Quincy moved to its own timeslot with hour-long episodes in January, and was replaced on Sunday with Lanigan's Rabbi; that was indeed due to it getting higher ratings than the other rotating series, although IIRC it wasn't that far ahead of Columbo, and the latter was never going to be a weekly series because Peter Falk refused to do more of them than he already was) The Ellery Queen series with Jim Hutton ran in the 1975-76 season and was the lead-in to Mystery Movie during its last nine months (Ellery 8:00-9:00, Mystery Movie 9:00-11:00). As MM had gone to two-hour episodes beginning with the previous season, perhaps NBC and Universal felt trying to do Ellery in that length would have been excessive? Trivial addition to thread ... the number of episodes produced for each Mystery Movie series (pilot episodes not included): Columbo: 43 McCloud: 39 (not including the 1970-71 Four-In-Ones) McMillan (with and without Wife): 39 Banacek: 16 Hec Ramsey: 10 Madigan: 6 McCoy: 5 Cool Million: 4 Faraday and Company: 4 Lanigan's Rabbi: 4 Quincy M.E.: 4 (then 144 more after being spun off) The Snoop Sisters: 4 Amy Prentiss: 3 There were 22 episodes of Ellery Queen produced, for comparison purposes. On Jun 27, 10:37 am, Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: > Quincy was part of the mystery wheel? I remember only the other three. > Too bad they couldn't have worked Ellery Queen in there; might have > prolonged the series. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
