NBC 🦚 Mystery Movie theme by Henry Mancini

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 the night's main actors and series (example: "tonight, starring Peter Falk as Columbo").