Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
The time: 10:00 pm, New Year's Eve, 1947. The place: The ballroom of the Hotel Astor. The victim: Mr. Marcus Halliday. A…
E2
A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murder…
E3
On a fishing trip to the town of Wrightsville, Ellery and Inspector Queen are dragged into the case of the murder of a w…
E4
Ellery himself is a leading suspect in the murder of a comic book publisher with whom he'd clashed over how he was portr…
E5
News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the ele…
E6
Beloved Vera Bethune stars as Miss Aggie in a radio soap opera, but is about to be written out. One day she drinks water…
E7
A WW II spy, Colonel Alec Nivin, is on a book tour in New York concerning his memoirs in which he accuses a variety of p…
E8
Ellery and his agent, Howard Biggers, travel to the estate of the wealthy and eccentric Spencer Lockridge. It seems as t…
E9
Burlesque producer Sam Packer is found dead of an apparent heart attack but he leaves behind a video to be shown at his …
E10
Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you kno…
E11
An awards dinner sponsored by the Crime Writers of America is being held at the residence of writer Edgar Manning who is…
E12
Simon Brimmer arrives at a restaurant where he is to give a live-remote broadcast of his highly rated mystery radio prog…
E13
A boxer is killed while training for a championship bout and the finger points towards his sparring partner, Joe Adams. …
E14
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Ed. Ed McMahon, that is, who plays a once brilliant but now seemingly senile inventor who is murdered i…
E15
Ellery's old college chum, Linville Hagen, is accused of murdering mobster Nick Danello and Ellery must find a missing w…
E16
The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dagg…
E17
Ellery and the Inspector travel to Hollywood in order to watch the filming of an adaptation of one of Ellery's novels in…
E18
Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently leadi…
E19
The radio payola scandals of the 1940's and 50's are recalled in this episode. Simon Brimmer once again tries to best El…
E20
Inspector Queen is in charge of protecting a mob witness but the witness is murdered before he can testify. Wouldn't you…
E21
Frank Flannigan probably wishes he'd taken a vacation as he's made to look foolish on the infant medium known as televis…
E22
In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year ol…
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