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Oct 7, 2021 · In the early 1970s, ABC, in an attempt to counter-program against the dominance of Johnny Carson and his NBC “Tonight Show,” decided to air a series of suspense and action and mystery-based movies under the umbrella title of “ABC’s Wide World of Mystery.”. Beginning on January 8, 1973, “WWOM” aired, in 90-minute timeslots, on a ...
The Wide World of Mystery: Created by Brian Clemens. With John Karlen, Michael Parks, Susan Strasberg, Robert Symonds. A 90 minute late-night mystery and suspense anthology series which ran on ABC (American Broadcasting Company), between 1973 and 1978.
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- 1973-01-15
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- 90
WIDE WORLD OF MYSTERY (along with the nighttime soap opera THE EDGE OF NIGHT, and many newscasts, sports programs, and game shows) fell victim to a mass inventory purge at ABC in 1978 which resulted in the network wiping a large number of broadcast tapes in order to reuse them.
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5. The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) Suicide Club. 1974 2h. 7.0 (7) Rate. TV Movie. A man (Peter Haskell) joins a card game where the stakes are a matter of life and death. Sensing foul play, he persuades a young woman (Margot Kidder) to help him reveal the operator of the game (Joseh Wiseman) as a card cheater.
I've been researching ABC's Wide World of Mystery series for the past several months with the goal of making a complete series overview as nobody seems to have put one together before. Turns out not only are there far more installments than anyone thought (125+ rather than the 50-60 usually attributed to it over the years) but many installments ...