Dante (1960)

Adventure · Crime · Drama

Dante is a short-lived NBC adventure/drama television series starring Howard Duff as Willie Dante, a former gambler who operates Dante's Inferno, a San Francisco, California, nightclub. Alan Mowbray co-starred as Stewart Styles, the Maitre d'; Tom D'Andrea as Biff, Dante's "man Friday", and Mort Mills as police Lieutenant Bob Malone. Dante claims to have put his past behind him but has retained old associates Stewart and Biff. While his club is legitimate, neither the police nor the mob believe that he is truly finished with the criminal underworld. Dante's old associates in crime keep appearing at the club in efforts to lure him back to the underworld. Dick Powell had previously played Dante in eight episodes of his Four Star Playhouse, initially written by Blake Edwards, who had previously created the radio drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective for Powell. There, Willie operates an illegal gambling operation in the back room of the "Inferno", which police soon shut down. The only regular from the Four Star Playhouse version to be cast in the series as well was Mowbray, who had first played a millionaire named Jackson who had gambled away his fortune and then worked as one of Dante's waiters. These episodes were subsequently rebroadcast under the collective title The Best in Mystery.

IMDb rating: 7.5 (77 votes)
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Season 1 (1960)

7.43 avg 20 episodes 7.7 → 7.4 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	One for the Birds	7.7	8
2	Opening Night	7.5	16
3	The Feline Traveler	7.3	7
4	Dante's Dilemma	7.3	10
5	The Misfortune Cookie	7.7	8
6	San Quentin Quill	8.0	8
7	The Unclean Green	7.7	8
8	The Bavarian Barbarians	6.9	9
9	My Pal, the Bullseye	7.0	8
10	The Jolly Roger Cocktail	7.3	8
11	A Punch from Judy	7.4	8
13	Wine, Women and Willie	7.2	8
14	Dial D for Dante	7.3	9
15	The Devil to Pay	7.2	7
16	Dante Rides Again	7.4	13
17	Dante's Fickle Fate	7.9	9
18	Aces and Eights	7.5	8
19	Light Lady, Dark Room	7.4	9
23	Hunter with a Badge	7.5	7
26	Around a Dark Corner	7.4	7