NBC Mystery Movie thread

[Mikey]

It's obscure now but at the time it was pretty popular.

Watched it every week with the family

[PNGwynne]

I still remember watching an old epsiode of Love,Sidney starring Tony Randall.

I'm surprised to see someone mention that obscure series. It's pallid now, but that show, and particularly the pilot telefilm, meant a great deal to me when I was...trying to figure things out.

[Mikey]

Even though I have the DVD's i'd like to see MeTV start playing the newer Columbo's from 1989 - 2003.

Many are not that good, but some shine even more than the classic series - see Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo

[HardyGirl]

Ever since Me-TV started showing Columbo on Sunday nights, I have become a fan of the show. However, they don't have license to enough of the series, so they just keep showing the same eps all the time. (Geez, I think I have some of them memorized). My housemate, who is 35 adores Columbo, and wants me to watch it w/ her on Sunday nights. Me-TV also has McMillian & Wife, McCloud and Banacek (taken over from Cozi-TV) weeknights (or mornings?) at 12:30 AM after Perry Mason. I wrote and suggested they switch and show Columbo in this time slot, and do the "original" Mystery wheel on Sundays. I never heard back.

[Wee67]

Columbo holds up very well, IMHO. Seeing the show rerun on MeTV inspired me to buy the series on DVD.

[phil]

I really liked Hec Ramsey. I wouldn't mind watching it again. Columbo still holds up very well. I don't remember seeing much of Banacek when it originally aired but I did enjoy watching the first season on DVD. I do wish the DVDs of these shows had the original NBC Mystery Movie opening and theme. I always liked that music.

[warlock664]

McCloud would be my pick as favorite; never really watched enough of the others to have a second or third choice.

[Mikey]

^ Quincy started out as a hour and a half wheel show for one season.

Most of these episodes co-star Lynette Mettey as Quincy's girlfriend

Also, remember -- a wheel show season isn't as long as a normal series season because they share the timeslot with 3-4 other shows -- so there isn't that many wheel Quincys

[GlobalObserver]

I could be wrong, but I remember Quincy as always being a weekly series.

[PNGwynne]

I've not heard of several of those, but I'm a Columbo junkie. I'd choose McCloud second. Never liked Banacek, too smarmy.

I do enjoy Quincy, like Mego73 I didn't know he'd been featured in telefilms, too.

[Mikey]

If anyone is interested somebody posted the entire Hec Ramsey pilot on youtube... (watchable quality)

First time I ever seen it and I must say Hec just might be my new second favorite wheel show after Columbo.

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[Mikey]

I still remember watching an old epsiode of Love,Sidney starring Tony Randall.
In the episode he made a reference about watching Quincy on TV

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I thought Petrocelli was one of them, too. Petrocelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember liking that one. My favorites were 1) McCloud, 2) McMillian and Wife, and 3) Columbo. I was such a fan of the Odd Couple, I always had a hard time enjoying Quincy. I typed cast him.

[Mikey]

I just got done watching a Columbo 2 minutes ago

It was the second pilot starring Lee Grant

VERY cool series

[mego73]

Columbo was the king!

But I also enjoyed McCloud, McMillian and Wife and Banacek .

I like Quincy too, but had no idea it was under the Mystery Movie umbrella.