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| | The NBC Mystery Movie - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | And the most successful Mystery Movie segment of all; Columbo, featured Peter Falk reprising his role from the highly rated 1968 NBC made-for-television movie, Prescription: Murder, as a seemingly slow-witted yet keenly perceptive and doggedly tenacious LAPD homicide Lieutenant. |
 | | First, it moved the original Mystery Movie line-up of Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan and Wife to the highly competitive Sunday night schedule and, as a fourth instalment to this rotation, added Hec Ramsey, starring Richard Boone as a Western crime fighter. |
 | | But The NBC Mystery Movie had left a legacy that would not soon be forgotten, and the series served as an inspiration for a future television trend: the made-for-television movie, featuring regular characters and routine plotlines, which would appear only a limited number of times each season. |
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