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Once this was an established success, NBC and [[Universal|Universal Television]] launched a second night, moving the three originals to Sundays (they initially aired on Wednesdays) as the rebranded ''NBC Sunday Mystery Movie'' and premiering the ''NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie''; they also tried to find a fourth spoke for the wheel, but none of the new arrivals (see below for chronology) stuck, and neither did the ''NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie'' itself (which only ran from 1972-74) - in fact, it wasn't until the final season that they finally had an addition which was a real hit, in ''[[Quincy|Quincy, M.E.]]''. In 1977 all the elements were cancelled except for the crusading coroner, who in a reversal of ''McCloud'' was granted his own hour-long slot (although ''Columbo'' continued to make appearances in additional TV movies).
The series was introduced for most of its run with an opening theme by [[Henry Mancini]] and visuals featuring a silhouetted figure walking across a landscape at sunset, using a torch to light up images of the elements of the wheel that season (the order depending on which one was airing that evening.) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ26K3nVM_0 Here are] [
In 1989 ABC resurrected the concept; see ''[[The ABC Mystery Movie]]''.
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