John Karlen
Otto Roget
Search results
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.
- (137)
- 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.
https://letterboxd.com/campnightmare/list/abcs-wide-world-of-mystery-complete-episode/
Beginning on 8 January 1973, this 90-minute late-night mystery and suspense anthology series ran on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) – on a rather erratic schedule – until 10 January 1976.
Police lieutenant Danny Ianello and insurance investigator Susan Browning become involved in the mystery surrounding the apparent suicide of wealthy Allen Harper. Their investigation uncovers a flamboyant blackmailer, drug addiction, and possibly murder.
An orphaned teenager becomes involved with an alien who was beamed to Earth from another galaxy in a TV signal. Is the alien a dream come true or a harbinger of doom? Originally broadcast as part of “The Wide World of Mystery.”
Private pilot Tink Wilson flies in a shipment of narcotics to be delivered at the military academy where his cadet son Chuck will graduate that night. Following the exchange, a unseen assailant shoots and kills Wilson, while Chuck and his military rifle go missing. Rate. Top-rated.
