Back here, we were talking about the various specials and programs featured on an anthology series called ABC's Wide World of Entertainment. I said, with regard to the concept of rotating shows, "I suppose that worked somewhere at some point on one of the three networks we had then but no example springs to mind." A lot of you wrote in to remind me of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, a series which featured in rotation, McCloud, McMillan and Wife, and Columbo…and then in its last season, Hec Ramsey.
I suppose that series was a hit but what I was thinking of what ABC's Wide World of Entertainment was two out of four weeks — a series which featured all sorts of different programs, many of them one-shots, in no predictable pattern.
Some of you also reminded me of one of the one-shot specials on ABC's Wide World of Entertainment. It was this special on the history of the game show — which was never on ABC — What's My Line? It's mostly made up of Mystery Guest segments…