Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen
TV ShowEnded

Ellery Queen

7.5 / 10
1975
1 season
22 episodes
MysteryDrama

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.

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  • The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne

    1.The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne

    9.0
    11-09-197560m

    The time: 10:00 pm, New Year's Eve, 1947. The place: The ballroom of the Hotel Astor. The victim: Mr. Marcus Halliday. And the suspects (all the usual ones): the son (and his gold-...

  • The Adventure of the Lover's Leap

    2.The Adventure of the Lover's Leap

    9.0
    18-09-197560m

    A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murder? The twist: she was reading one of Ellery's own murder myst...

  • The Adventure of the Chinese Dog

    3.The Adventure of the Chinese Dog

    8.0
    25-09-197560m

    On a fishing trip to the town of Wrightsville, Ellery and Inspector Queen are dragged into the case of the murder of a wealthy man who was whacked over the head with an ornamental...

  • The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader

    4.The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader

    8.0
    02-10-197560m

    Ellery himself is a leading suspect in the murder of a comic book publisher with whom he'd clashed over how he was portrayed in the publisher's comics. It seems as though the man l...

  • The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express

    5.The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express

    8.0
    09-10-197560m

    News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the elevator except the victim. The suspects include Manners' siste...

  • The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance

    6.The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance

    9.0
    23-10-197560m

    Beloved Vera Bethune stars as Miss Aggie in a radio soap opera, but is about to be written out. One day she drinks water from a jug and is poisoned in a murder attempt. She is take...

  • The Adventure of Colonel Niven's Memoirs

    7.The Adventure of Colonel Niven's Memoirs

    23-10-197560m

    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 people of war crimes and treasonous acts. Ellery's galpal, Je...

  • The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party

    8.The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party

    30-10-197560m

    Ellery and his agent, Howard Biggers, travel to the estate of the wealthy and eccentric Spencer Lockridge. It seems as though Biggers wants to turn one of Ellery's books into a pla...

  • The Adventure of Veronica's Veils

    9.The Adventure of Veronica's Veils

    13-11-197560m

    Burlesque producer Sam Packer is found dead of an apparent heart attack but he leaves behind a video to be shown at his funeral in which he states that no matter what it looks like...

  • The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse

    10.The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse

    11-12-197560m

    Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you know it, there's curse on the darn thing. The six previous owne...

  • The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument

    11.The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument

    18-12-197560m

    An awards dinner sponsored by the Crime Writers of America is being held at the residence of writer Edgar Manning who is the recipient of the Blunt Instrument Award. Ellery is not...

  • The Adventure of the Black Falcon

    12.The Adventure of the Black Falcon

    04-01-197660m

    Simon Brimmer arrives at a restaurant where he is to give a live-remote broadcast of his highly rated mystery radio program. Ellery and the Inspector are invited to attend. As you...

  • The Adventure of the Sunday Punch

    13.The Adventure of the Sunday Punch

    11-01-197660m

    A boxer is killed while training for a championship bout and the finger points towards his sparring partner, Joe Adams. Joe's girlfriend, Corrinne Ogden, seeks out Ellery for help...

  • The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer

    14.The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer

    18-01-197660m

    Heeeeeeeeeeere's Ed. Ed McMahon, that is, who plays a once brilliant but now seemingly senile inventor who is murdered in his electric train workshop. This one's a toughie because...

  • The Adventure of the Wary Witness

    15.The Adventure of the Wary Witness

    01-02-197660m

    Ellery's old college chum, Linville Hagen, is accused of murdering mobster Nick Danello and Ellery must find a missing witness who can prove his innocence. This missing witness was...

  • The Adventure of the Judas Tree

    16.The Adventure of the Judas Tree

    01-02-197660m

    The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dagger and then dragged out of his house and hung from a tree wi...

  • The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario

    17.The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario

    08-02-197660m

    Ellery and the Inspector travel to Hollywood in order to watch the filming of an adaptation of one of Ellery's novels into a movie. At the studio, they meet the actors who will be...

  • The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman

    18.The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman

    29-02-197660m

    Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently leading a double life. The case has its underpinnings in events t...

  • The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley

    19.The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley

    07-03-197660m

    The radio payola scandals of the 1940's and 50's are recalled in this episode. Simon Brimmer once again tries to best Ellery and once again falls short. The plot concerns the murde...

  • The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep

    20.The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep

    14-03-197660m

    Inspector Queen is in charge of protecting a mob witness but the witness is murdered before he can testify. Wouldn't you know it, the evidence points to none other than Sgt. Velie....

  • The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster

    21.The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster

    21-03-197660m

    Frank Flannigan probably wishes he'd taken a vacation as he's made to look foolish on the infant medium known as television. The plot concerns the murder of a nasty advertising exe...

  • The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger

    22.The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger

    04-04-197660m

    In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year old unsolved murder case.

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