Some Like It Hot success of "Some Like It Hot" is considered one of the final nails in the coffin for the Hays Code. It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, during the era of Prohibition. Joe (Tony Curtis) is a jazz saxophone player, and an irresponsible gambler and ladies' man; his sensible friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy (disguised as a funeral home) owned by gangster "Spats" Colombo (George Raft). Tipped off by informant "Toothpick" Charlie (George E. Stone), the police raid the joint. Joe and Jerry flee—only to accidentally witness Spats
The NBC Mystery Movie 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 a crime solving anthropologist, and "B.L. Stryker", which featured Burt Reynolds as a South Florida private investigator. Columbo continued in its second season on Saturday (as "ABC Saturday Mystery Movie") with two other films series in August 1990. The new "Christine Cromwell", a San Francisco based mystery starring Jaclyn Smith.