The Best in Mystery
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The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Each episode of this 1950s anthology series presents a different mystery story. The show ran as a summer replacement and included episodes from other series as well as original stories.
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What happens
The Best in Mystery is an American anthology and mystery television series that ran for three years in the 1950s as a summer replacement series for the crime drama The Big Story. The series premiered on NBC on July 16, 1954, and aired on Friday nights from 9 to 9:30 p.m. until September 1954. The next summer it aired from July 1955 to September 1955, and the following summer from July 13, 1956, to August 31, 1956. The 1955 broadcasts featured MCA-TV productions, most of which had been broadcast on The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse or Studio 57. Episodes aired in 1956 featured Dick Powell as Willie Dante, owner of the San Francisco night club Dante's Inferno. They were first broadcast as part of Four Star Playhouse on CBS. The program was sponsored on alternate weeks by Simoniz and American Tobacco Company, with American Tobacco and the Toni Company alternating in 1956. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Sneak Preview- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.