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60-459: The NBC Mystery Movie was a " wheel series ", or "umbrella program", that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. In its first, 1971–72, it rotated three detective dramas that were broadcast on Wednesday nights from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones (7:30–9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time). The origin of the "wheel" format

120-535: A circle (in the original animation, some of these filmstrips contained the NBC logo, and they scrolled upwards at a faster pace), alternatively, the portion of the introduction featuring Columbo replaced the original NBC-branded end graphic. Some syndicated reruns of other Mystery Movie shows retained the intro, but simply faded away before the NBC-branded opening graphic could be shown. The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie theme

180-475: A crime solving anthropologist, and B.L. Stryker , which featured Burt Reynolds as a South Florida private investigator. It was originally meant to be on Saturdays, but moved to Mondays amidst production delays related to the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike . Columbo and B.L. Stryker continued in the wheel's second season on Saturday (as ABC Saturday Mystery Movie ) with two other series in August 1989:

240-455: A fourth series, which changed each year (1974–1977), including: Additionally, the two-hour pilot of another Universal mystery series, Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects , aired in the usual Sunday timeslot of the Mystery Movie on March 23, 1975; it was promoted as an NBC Mystery Movie Special . (The resulting series began airing that September, but in a Thursday night timeslot, and not under

300-554: A household name among artists of easy listening music. Mancini's earliest recordings in the 1950s and early 1960s were of the jazz idiom; with the success of Peter Gunn , Mr. Lucky , and Breakfast at Tiffany's , Mancini shifted to recording primarily his own music in record albums and film soundtracks. (Relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit arrangement of Nino Rota's A Time for Us (as his only Billboard Hot 100 top 10 entry,

360-512: A list of some of his film and television themes. Note: Most of Mancini's scores were not released on LP soundtrack albums. His TV movie music albums were not soundtrack albums but are titled "Music from ..." or "Music from the Motion Picture ..." He routinely retained the rights to his music. Mancini's contracts allowed him to release his own albums for which he rearranged the score music into arrangements more appropriate for listening outside of

420-661: A longstanding partnership was Stanley Donen ( Charade , Arabesque , Two for the Road ). Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks ( Man's Favorite Sport? , Hatari! – which included the " Baby Elephant Walk "), Martin Ritt ( The Molly Maguires ), Vittorio de Sica ( Sunflower ), Norman Jewison ( Gaily, Gaily ), Paul Newman ( Sometimes a Great Notion , The Glass Menagerie ) , Stanley Kramer ( Oklahoma Crude ), George Roy Hill ( The Great Waldo Pepper ), Arthur Hiller ( Silver Streak ), Ted Kotcheff ( Who Is Killing

480-469: A pianist in the 1967 film Gunn , based on the Peter Gunn television series. In the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon Pink, Plunk, Plink , the panther commandeered an orchestra and proceeded to conduct Mancini's theme for the series. At the end, the shot switched to rare live action, and Mancini was seen alone applauding in the audience. Mancini also made a brief appearance in the title sequence of 1993's Son of

540-461: A reunion film in 1989. The film, titled The Return of Sam McCloud , featured Dennis Weaver in the role of United States Senator Sam McCloud. However, unlike the television series, the reunion film aired on CBS. The ABC Mystery Movie theme was composed by Mike Post . In the fall of 1993, NBC made an attempt to revive the wheel format, this time called The NBC Friday Night Mystery . This rotation included: Promotional materials originally included

600-538: A revival of the CBS telefilm series, Janek , which debuted in 1985 starring Richard Crenna as New York City Police Lieutenant of Detectives Frank Janek. An alleged feud between the two networks led to CBS demanding that NBC not proceed with production. The NBC Mystery Movie maintained high ratings finishing in the top 30 of shows for the first four seasons. The show rated as the following: Wheel series A wheel series , wheel show , wheel format or umbrella series

660-809: A scholarship at UCLA and some of his library and works are archived in the music library at UCLA, with additional materials preserved at the Library of Congress. In 1996, the Henry Mancini Institute, an academy for young music professionals, was founded by Jack Elliott in Mancini's honor, and was later under the direction of composer-conductor Patrick Williams . By the mid-2000s, however, the institute could not sustain itself and closed its doors on December 30, 2006. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation "Henry Mancini Music Scholarship" has been awarded annually since 2001. In 2005,

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720-472: A similar format to Welk's, The Mancini Generation , which aired in syndication during the 1972–73 season. Mancini recorded over 90 albums, in styles ranging from big band to light classical to pop . Eight of these albums were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America . He had a 20-year contract with RCA Victor , resulting in 60 commercial record albums that made him

780-535: A single character, handyman Cliff Murdoch ( Guy Raymond ). NBC began working with the mystery crime drama wheel format in 1968 with the 90-minute The Name of the Game . Based on the successful 1966 telefilm, Fame Is the Name of the Game , the first of the long-running World Premiere Movie series, it featured three main characters who worked for the same media corporation in different capacities, each character serving as

840-614: A sister wheel show airing on Wednesday nights; the original was retitled NBC Sunday Mystery Movie with the addition of a fourth program, Hec Ramsey , and the new wheel, NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie debuted with four other new programs. None of the newer programs were as successful as the original three Sunday shows, except for the Wednesday program, Quincy, M.E. , which was spun off as a standalone hour-long series in 1977. Rival programs ABC's The Men , and The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies did not last long either. Attempts at reviving

900-592: A springboard for a different type of story. NBC launched a wheel show each year for the subsequent three years: The Bold Ones , Four in One and The NBC Mystery Movie . McCloud became part of the foundation for the NBC Mystery Movie after the cancellation of Four in One . It was joined by two new shows, Columbo (derived from the 1968 NBC telefilm Prescription: Murder ) and McMillan and Wife . The success of this wheel on Sunday nights eventually led to

960-461: A teacher. At age 12, he began studying piano and orchestral arrangement under Pittsburgh concert pianist and Stanley Theatre (now Benedum Center ) conductor Max Adkins. Not only did Mancini produce arrangements for the Stanley Theatre bands, but he also wrote an arrangement for Benny Goodman , an up-and-coming bandleader introduced to him by Adkins. According to Mancini biographer John Caps,

1020-457: Is a television series in which two or more regular programs are rotated in the same time slot. Sometimes the wheel series is given its own umbrella title and promoted as a single unit instead of promoting its separate components. The most successful example of a wheel series on American television was the NBC Mystery Movie , which debuted in 1971 on NBC and ran for seven seasons. Three of

1080-467: The Boston Pops Orchestra , Peggy Lee , and Matt Monro . The Anita Kerr Quartet won a Grammy award (1965) for their album We Dig Mancini , a cover of his songs. Lawrence Welk held Mancini in very high regard, and frequently featured Mancini's music on The Lawrence Welk Show (Mancini made at least two guest appearances on the show). Mancini briefly hosted his own musical variety TV show in

1140-589: The Juilliard School of Music in New York City following a successful audition in which he performed a Beethoven sonata and improvisation on " Night and Day " by Cole Porter . Because he could only take orchestration and composition courses in his second year, Mancini studied only piano in his first year at Juilliard, in a condition Caps called "aimless and oppressed—a far cry from Adkins's enabling protective environment." After turning 18, Mancini enlisted in

1200-434: The NBC Mystery Movie umbrella.) Of all the wheel series, only the original three — Columbo , McCloud and McMillan & Wife  — survived for the entire run of the Mystery Movie . Most of the others were short-lived, and, with the exception of Hec Ramsey and Banacek , were all only on the air for one season. Quincy, M.E. , which was the next to last new Mystery Movie series to premiere, ended up outlasting

1260-541: The River Thames . Shortly before his death in 1994, he made a one-off cameo appearance in the first season of the sitcom series Frasier , as a call-in patient to Dr. Frasier Crane's radio show. Mancini voiced the character Al, who speaks with a melancholy drawl and hates the sound of his own voice, in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast?" Moments after Mancini's cameo ends, Frasier's radio broadcast plays "Moon River". Mancini also had an uncredited performance as

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1320-719: The Thorn Birds Suite in June 1983. He appeared in 1966, 1980 and 1984 in command performances for the British Royal Family . He also toured several times with Johnny Mathis and also with Andy Williams, who had both sung many of Mancini's songs; Mathis and Mancini collaborated on the 1986 album The Hollywood Musicals . In 1987 he conducted an impromptu charity concert in London in aid of Children In Need . The concert included Tchaikovsky 's 1812 Overture with firework accompaniment over

1380-711: The United States Army Air Forces in 1943. While in basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey , he met musicians being recruited by Glenn Miller . Owing to a recommendation by Miller, Mancini was first assigned to the 28th Air Force Band before being reassigned overseas to the 1306th Engineers Brigade in France. In 1945, he helped liberate the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. Newly discharged from

1440-552: The 1984–85 television season, four series featured original Mancini themes: Newhart , Hotel , Remington Steele , and Ripley's Believe It or Not . Mancini also composed the "Viewer Mail" theme for Late Night with David Letterman . Mancini composed the theme for NBC Nightly News used beginning in 1975, and a different theme by him, titled Salute to the President was used by NBC News for its election coverage (including primaries and conventions) from 1976 to 1992. Salute to

1500-711: The Great Chefs of Europe? ), and others. Mancini's score for the Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy (1972) in Bachian organ andante, for organ and an orchestra of strings was rejected and replaced by Ron Goodwin 's work. Mancini scored many TV movies, including The Moneychangers , The Thorn Birds and The Shadow Box . He wrote many television themes, including Mr. Lucky (starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin ), NBC Mystery Movie , Tic Tac Dough (1990 version), Once Is Not Enough , and What's Happening!! In

1560-647: The Henry Mancini Arts Academy was opened as a division of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center. The center is located in Midland, Pennsylvania, minutes away from Mancini's hometown of Aliquippa. The Henry Mancini Arts Academy is an evening-and-weekend performing arts program for children from pre-K to grade 12, with some classes also available for adults. The program includes dance, voice, musical theater, and instrumental lessons. In 2017,

1620-557: The Municipality of Scanno dedicated a street to Mancini, called "Via Henry Mancini". The American Film Institute ranked Mancini's songs " Moon River " No. 4 and " Days of Wine and Roses " No. 39 on their 100 Years...100 Songs list, and his score for The Pink Panther No. 20 on their list of the greatest film scores . His scores for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), Hatari! (1962), Touch of Evil (1958) and Wait Until Dark (1967) were also nominated for

1680-741: The No. 1 hit "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet ") and its accompanying album A Warm Shade of Ivory , Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist recording music primarily written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and The Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen . Among Mancini's orchestral scores are ( Lifeforce , The Great Mouse Detective , Sunflower , Tom and Jerry: The Movie , Molly Maguires , The Hawaiians ), and darker themes ( Experiment in Terror , The White Dawn , Wait Until Dark , The Night Visitor ). Mancini

1740-470: The Pink Panther , allowing the panther to conduct Bobby McFerrin in performing the film's theme tune. In 1969 at the 41st Academy Awards ceremony, Mancini played the harpsichord in a special number. Marni Nixon sang the rules for nomination in the category of Best Score of a Musical Motion Picture (Original or Adaptation), and together they sang the names of the films and musicians nominated. Mancini

1800-1036: The President was published only in a school-band arrangement, although Mancini performed it frequently with symphony orchestras on his concert tours. Songs with music by Mancini were staples of the easy listening radio format from the 1960s to the 1980s. To advertisers, Mancini's style symbolized the bright, confident, hospitable voice of bourgeois America. Some of the artists who have recorded Mancini songs include Andy Williams , Paul Anka , Pat Boone , Anita Bryant , Jack Jones , Frank Sinatra , Perry Como , Connie Francis , Eydie Gorme , Steve Lawrence , Trini Lopez , George Maharis , Johnny Mathis , Jerry Vale , Ray Conniff , Quincy Jones , The Lennon Sisters , The Lettermen , Herb Alpert , Eddie Cano , Frank Chacksfield , Warren Covington , Sarah Vaughan , Shelly Manne , James Moody , Percy Faith , Ferrante & Teicher , Horst Jankowski , Andre Kostelanetz , Peter Nero , Liberace , Mantovani , Tony Bennett , Julie London , Wayne Newton , Arthur Fiedler , Secret Agent and

1860-410: The characters or the story of an individual episode. Each episode and each series were of widely varying quality, making package re-sale difficult. However, by the early 1980s, various movie episodes from the former Mystery Movie series were rebroadcast on late night's The CBS Late Movie as a package with an earlier half-hour situation comedy series rerun. While they lasted, the best of them employed

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1920-432: The competitive 8:30-10:00 Sunday evening time period for the second season as The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie . In addition, a fourth show was added to the rotation, lasting two seasons (1972–1974): NBC also launched a clone of the umbrella series, The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie , which debuted in the original time period and featured three new programs: During the 1973–1974 season, the programs rotating on Sunday remained

1980-467: The context of the film/theater. Actual film scores using players from Hollywood unions recording under major motion picture studio contracts were expensive to release on LP (ex: the soundtrack for Our Man Flint (not a Mancini score) cost $ 1 more than other LP albums of the day). Many soundtrack albums used to claim "Original Soundtrack" or words to that effect, but were not necessarily the actual soundtrack recordings. These albums were usually recorded with

2040-464: The end of the decade. By the late 1970s, the increasing popularity of situation comedies, coupled with their lower production costs and much greater scheduling flexibility and resale opportunities, surpassed that of these feature-length (90–120 minute) drama anthologies. The anthologies could not reasonably be reduced for shorter broadcast times for the re-run market. They were not designed for casual or short-term viewers, who would have little interest in

2100-474: The fifth film aired in May 1978, NBC cancelled Columbo as well. The NBC Mystery Movie theme music was composed by Henry Mancini . The opening credits consisted of a shadowed figure carrying a flashlight slowly walking toward the camera in a desert landscape under dramatically lit clouds, as images of the various rotating series appeared sequentially on the screen; at the end, an announcer ( Hank Simms ) presented

2160-458: The finest actors, writers and production standards available. The three original 1971–1972 season shows of The NBC Mystery Movie were: The umbrella series was counted a great success in its first season and finished at number 14 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1971–1972 season. Columbo was nominated for eight Emmy Awards and won four categories. This success prompted NBC to move the series to

2220-441: The first) featured a different principal, but frequently included one or more of the others. In ABC's 77 Sunset Strip (1958-64) the two detectives would typically alternate as leads, with a Stuart Bailey case being featured one week, and a Jeff Spencer case the next. In NBC's 90 Bristol Court (1964-65), three unrelated comedy programs set in the same place were shown consecutively in one evening. They were tied together by

2280-566: The format were made in 1989 with the Mystery Wheel of Adventure , a series of made-for-syndication TV movies including six installments of a new version of The Saint , in 1989-1990, with a format that rotated new editions of Columbo and Kojak on ABC , and in 1993-1994 on NBC , with a format that rotated A Perry Mason Mystery and new installments of Hart to Hart , without lasting success. Hallmark Channel had success with its Mystery Movie wheel from 2005 to 2008, discontinuing

2340-499: The greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards , a Golden Globe , and twenty Grammy Awards , plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His works include the theme and soundtrack for the Peter Gunn television series as well as the music for The Pink Panther film series (" The Pink Panther Theme ") and " Moon River " from Breakfast at Tiffany's . The Music from Peter Gunn won

2400-823: The inaugural Grammy Award for Album of the Year . Mancini enjoyed a long collaboration in composing film scores for the film director Blake Edwards . Mancini also scored a No. 1 hit single during the rock era on the Hot 100 : his arrangement and recording of the " Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet " spent two weeks at the top, starting with the week ending June 28, 1969. Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in Maple Heights, Ohio , and raised in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania . Both his parents were Italian immigrants. Originally from Scanno, Abruzzo , his father Quintiliano "Quinto" Mancini

2460-563: The list. Mancini was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards and won 20. He was nominated for 18 Academy Awards and won four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 1961, Mancini won two Academy Awards, one for "Moon River" for Best Original Song and one for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's . In 1962, he won Best Original Song again, this time for " Days of Wine and Roses ". He won Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score again in 1982 for

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2520-449: The military, Mancini entered the music industry. In 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra , led by 'Everyman' Tex Beneke . After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies, opening with the composers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco . In 1952, Mancini joined Universal-International 's music department. During

2580-623: The movie Victor/Victoria . In 1989, Mancini received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 1997, Mancini was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music . On April 13, 2004, the United States Postal Service honored Mancini with a thirty-seven cent commemorative stamp. Painted by artist Victor Stabin , the stamp shows Mancini conducting in front of

2640-501: The new Christine Cromwell , a San Francisco based mystery starring Jaclyn Smith , and a revival of CBS' 1970s crime drama Kojak . The wheel series ran irregularly from February 1989 until August 1990. After the ABC Saturday Mystery Movie ended, ABC kept Columbo in production and Falk starred in an additional fourteen episodes before the network discontinued the series in 2003. Universal brought McCloud back for

2700-455: The next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably Creature from the Black Lagoon , The Creature Walks Among Us , It Came from Outer Space , Tarantula , This Island Earth , The Glenn Miller Story (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination), The Benny Goodman Story and Orson Welles ' Touch of Evil . His first hit as a pop songwriter

2760-425: The night's main actors and series (example: "tonight, starring Peter Falk as Columbo ") . Some syndicated episodes of Columbo retain this opening credit sequence, though the original title caption which included "NBC" and (after the first season), a day of the week was instead replaced by a similar graphic, simply showing multiple colored filmstrips with "MYSTERY" written within the frames, scrolling upwards within

2820-423: The parent series itself; midway through the final Mystery Movie season, Quincy was taken out of the wheel lineup and retooled into a one-hour weekly series that ran for six more seasons, coming to an end in 1983. Although the Mystery Movie series was cancelled at the end of the 1976–1977 season, NBC kept Columbo in production and a seventh season consisting of five films premiered on November 21, 1977. After

2880-434: The same, while on Wednesday, Cool Million and Madigan were canceled and Banacek rotated with three new series: Rescheduling to Tuesday nights as The NBC Tuesday Mystery Movie during January 1974 was not enough to help boost ratings, and the midweek series was canceled. The Sunday series continued, anchored by the popular trio of Columbo , McCloud , and McMillan and Wife . During subsequent years, these rotated with

2940-581: The segment, Behind The Cameras at Warner Brothers . Warner Bros. was inspired by the Disneyland anthology series to do the series for publicity. The series lasted for one season. In 1959 ITV in the United Kingdom introduced The Four Just Men , a 39 episode series linking the common purpose of four characters: Jeff Ryder ( Richard Conte ), Tim Collier ( Dan Dailey ), Ben Manfred ( Jack Hawkins ) and Ricco Poccari ( Vittorio De Sica ). Each episode (after

3000-433: The series amid the growing popularity of its original romance movies. In 2015, its newly-rebranded sister channel Hallmark Movies & Mysteries launched a new mystery wheel. Henry Mancini Henry Mancini ( / m æ n ˈ s iː n i / man- SEE -nee ; born Enrico Nicola Mancini ; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of

3060-402: The shows in the rotation, Columbo , McCloud , and McMillan & Wife , were among the most successful shows on American television in the 1970s. The concept debuted in 1955 with ABC 's Warner Bros. Presents . Warner Bros. Presents was a one-hour show rotating three series based on the movies King's Row , Casablanca , and Cheyenne , with the last 10 minutes set aside for

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3120-607: The young Mancini "preferred music arranging to any kind of musical performance, but taking apart a Chopin mazurka or Schumann sonata in order to play it helped him see...how the puzzle of form, meter, melody, harmony, and counterpoint had been solved by previous composers." After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini first attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh. Later that year, Mancini transferred to

3180-405: Was The Name of the Game , a drama with three rotating stars. It was followed by The Bold Ones and Four in One (the similar The Men was produced for ABC and involved series from three studios, although one of them was Universal). While it was a long and profitable collaboration, it finally succumbed to the changes of the commercial broadcast market regarding both structure and content by

3240-676: Was a joint programming and creative production agreement between the NBC Television Network and Universal Studios Television and Motion Pictures in 1966, in accord with which NBC ordered a multi-year series of dramatic anthology productions from Universal that NBC would broadcast in the United States (both as originals and re-runs), with Universal retaining exclusive rights to overseas release of these productions as feature-length films, while NBC could not offer them as TV re-runs internationally. The first series created under this agreement

3300-589: Was a laborer at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a teenager around 1910. His mother Anna ( née  Pece ) came to the U.S. from Forlì del Sannio , Molise , as an infant. At age eight, Mancini began learning the piccolo . Mancini said that hearing Rudolph G. Kopp's score in the 1935 Cecil B. DeMille film The Crusades inspired him to pursue film music composition despite his father's wishes for him to become

3360-532: Was a pioneer of the inclusion of jazz elements in the late romantic orchestral film and TV scoring prevalent at the time. Mancini's scores for Blake Edwards included Breakfast at Tiffany's (with the standard " Moon River ") and Days of Wine and Roses (with the title song, " Days of Wine and Roses "), as well as Experiment in Terror , The Pink Panther (and all of its sequels), The Great Race , The Party , 10 (including "It's Easy to Say") and Victor Victoria . Another director with whom Mancini had

3420-492: Was a single by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians titled "I Won't Let You Out of My Heart". Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/arranger in 1958. Soon afterward, he scored the television series Peter Gunn for writer/producer Blake Edwards . This was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Along with Alex North , Elmer Bernstein , Leith Stevens and Johnny Mandel , Henry Mancini

3480-818: Was also a concert performer, conducting over fifty engagements per year, resulting in over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime. He conducted nearly all of the leading symphony orchestras of the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra , the Israel Philharmonic , the Boston Pops , the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . One of his favorites was the Minnesota Orchestra , where he debuted

3540-530: Was composed by Quincy Jones for its first season and had an animated open to show the lineup. In 1989, Universal Television and ABC teamed to launch a revival of the mystery wheel, titled the ABC Monday Mystery Movie . The network brought back original Mystery Movie series Columbo to be part of the wheel, with Peter Falk returning in the title role. Two new series joined Columbo in its first year, Gideon Oliver , starring Louis Gossett Jr. as

3600-532: Was the music director of the 41st Academy Awards broadcast. Mancini died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on June 14, 1994. He was working at the time on the Broadway stage version of Victor/Victoria , which he never saw on stage. Mancini was survived by his wife of 47 years, singer Virginia "Ginny" O'Connor, with whom he had three children. She died on October 25, 2021, at age 97. Henry Mancini created

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