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| Too Many Suspects (Mar/23/1975) | | In this pilot episode, author/amateur detective Ellery Queen tries to track down the killer of a noted fashion designer who pulled the plug out of her clock and her television set as a cryptic dying message. | | Guest Stars: Ray Milland as Carson McKell, John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, Ross Elliott as Judge, Basil Hoffman as Fingerprint Man, James Lyndon as Radio Announcer, Dwan Smith as Maid, Victor Mohica as Ramon, Gail Strickland as Gail Stevens, Harry Von Zell as Announcer, Kim Hunter as Marian McKell, Monte Markham as Tom McKell, John Larch as District Attorney, Tim O'Connor as Ben Watson, Nancy Kovack as Monica Gray, Warren Berlinger as Eddie Carter | Director: David Greene (5)
Writer: Richard Levinson, William Link
Story: Ellery Queen | | | |
| 1 :01x01 - The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne (Sep/11/1975) | | On New Year's Eve, at a posh celebration, a wealthy man is murdered after excusing himself to make a phone call to his attorney. The murder occurs only moments after he announced his plans to disinherit his companions. Ellery and Inspector Queen are soon on the scene and the solution hinges on a clue left by the dead man. | | Guest Stars: Charles Knox Robinson (1) as Lewis Halliday, Arch Johnson as Deputy Commissioner Hayes, George Wyner as Joe Kemmelman, Peggy Rea as Madge Velie, William Lanteau as Avery Dickson, Herb Edelman as Taxi Driver, Farley Granger as Paul Quincy, David Doyle (1) as Don Becker, Barbara Rush as Emma Zelman, Lou Gus as McCoy, Joan Collins as Lady Daisy Frawley, Ray Walston as Howard Pratt, Karen Machon as Kitty McBride, Thayer David as Marcus Halliday, Guy Lombardo as Himself | Director: David Greene (5)
Writer: Peter S. Fischer (1)
Story: William Link, Richard Levinson | | | |
| 2 :01x02 - The Adventure of the Lover's Leap (Sep/18/1975) | | While reading an Ellery Queen novel, a fountain pen heiress begins having all the experiences as a character in the book such as having an overwhelming urge to jump off the balcony. Soon afterwards, she's found dead at the bottom of the balcony. Did she jump or was she pushed? | | Guest Stars: John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, John Lawlor as Radio Technician, James Lydon as Radio Actor, Basil Hoffman as Fingerprint Man, Nina Roman as Grace, Susan Strasberg as Cathy Kendrick, Anne Francis (1) as Evelyn Chandler, Jason Wingreen as Roy Miller, Don Ameche as Dr. Norman Marsh, Jack Kelly (1) as J. T. Latimer, Ida Lupino as Stephanie Talbot Kendrick, Craig Stevens (1) as Jonathan Kendrick | Director: Charles S. Dubin
Writer: Robert Pirosh | | | |
| 3 :01x03 - The Adventure of the Chinese Dog (Sep/25/1975) | | On vacation in the town of Wrightsville, Inspector Queen and Ellery are dragged into the murder investigation of a man who's head was bashed in by an ornamental dog figurine worth half a million dollars and meant as a wedding gift for his daughter. | | Guest Stars: Dee Wallace Stone as Waitress, Jerry Fogel as Deputy Brown, Geraldine Brooks as Tilda MacDonald, Eugene Roche as Sheriff Eberhardt, Katherine Crawford (1) as Julia Wright, Orson Bean as Warren Wright, Murray Hamilton as Henry Palmer, Robert F. Simon (3) as Eben Wright, Hal Smith as Coroner Will Bailey, Bill Quinn (1) as Reverend J.P. Dell, Robert Hogan as Gordon Wilde | Director: Ernest Pintoff
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk | | | |
| 4 :01x04 - The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader (Oct/02/1975) | | Ellery himself is a suspect in the murder of a comic book publisher with whom he'd just had a heated disagreement. Especially when a dying clue appears to point towards him. Muckraking reporter Frank Flannigan makes his first appearance to try and "aid" the investigation. | | Guest Stars: Herbie Faye as Moe Fletcher, Sandy Ward as Jail Guard, Arch Johnson as Deputy Commissioner Hayes, Ken Swofford as Frank Flannigan, Maggie Nelson as Vera, Alan Landers (1) as Ronald Himes, George Sperdakos as Vincent Porter, Eddie Firestone as Phil Collins, Donald O'Connor as Kenny Freeman, Lynda Day George as Alma Van Dine, Tom Bosley as Bud Armstrong, Joseph Maher as Lyle Shannon | Director: Peter H. Hunt (1)
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk | | | |
| 5 :01x05 - The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express (Oct/09/1975) | | There's all kinds of suspects when a newspaper mogul is found murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor with no one inside but the victim. Suspects include the victim's sister, an editor being forced into retirement, a Red-baiting columnist for the paper, a disgruntled obituary writer and a lawyer for the paper. Then there's the matter of ole Frank Flannigan who's snooping around making a nuisance of himself trying to beat the Queens to the solution. | | Guest Stars: Tyler McVey as Henry Manners, Kristin Larkin as Dorothy, Ken Swofford as Frank Flannigan, Suzanne Arnold (1) as Judy Adams, Sandy De Bruin (1) as Sally, John Finnegan as Fred Durnhoffer, Kip Niven as Arthur Van Dyke, Paul Stewart as Thornton Johns, George Furth as Albert Klinger, Ruth McDevitt as Zelda Van Dyke, Dina Merrill as Harriett Manners, Pat Harrington, Jr. as Mitch McCully | Director: Jack Arnold (1)
Writer: Allyn Folsom, David H. Balkan | | | |
| 6 :01x06 - The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance (Oct/19/1975) | | Radio star Vera Bethune is poisoned during a taping of her show. At the hospital, she asks Ellery and the Inspector to stay on the case but soon afterwards she's found shot to death. Simon Brimmer is on the scene too desperately trying to beat the Queens to the solution so as to win back a lost sponsor for his radio program. | | Guest Stars: Beatrice Colen as Mary Lou Gumm, Nina Roman as Grace, Sidney Miller (1) as Morgue Attendant, Don Keefer as Fence, John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, Joseph Sicardi as Gus Geropolis, Penelope Windust as Anita Leslie, Gerald Hiken (1) as Alvin Burns, Nan Martin as Olivia Burns, Hilda Haynes as Nurse Frawley, Eve Arden as Vera Bethune, Bert Parks as Lawrence Denver, Betty White as Louise Demery, Paul Shenar as Wendell Warren, John McGiver as Mr. Pearl | Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Peter S. Fischer (1) | | | |
| 7 :01x07 - The Adventure of Colonel Niven's Memoirs (Oct/23/1975) | | A former spy, Colonel Alec Niven, is in New York for a book signing of his memoirs in which he accuses numerous people of war crimes and treasonous acts. Ellery's galpal, Jenny O'Brien, works in a bookstore where the signing was held and finds the author stabbed to death in his hotel room with an antique Kashmir dagger. | | Guest Stars: Caryn Matchinga as Glenda Dunlap, Claude Earl Jones as Mounted Officer, Jonathan Hole as Dress Shop Manager, Peter Bromilow as Colin Esterbrook, Rene Auberjonois as Marcel Fourchet, Gretchen Corbett as Jenny O'Brien, Nina Van Pallandt as Sonya Dubrenskov, Robert Loggia as Alexei Dubrenskov, Lloyd Bochner as Colonel Alec V. Niven, Pernell Roberts as Rosh Kalee/Barney Groves/Major Pearson | Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Robert Swanson (3) | | | |
| 8 :01x08 - The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party (Oct/30/1975) | | Ellery and his agent travel to the estate of wealthy eccentric Spencer Lockridge to try to get financial backing to turn one of Ellery's novels into a play. Not long after their arrival, Lockridge disappears and thrusts Ellery into another mystery. | | Guest Stars: Julie Sommars as Emmy Reinhart, Carmen Mathews as Letitia Allingham, Lew Brown as Lt. Carr, William Benedict as Cab Driver, George Janek as Johnny Lockridge, Julius Harris as Doyle, Larry Hagman as Paul Gardner, Rhonda Fleming as Laura Lockridge, Jim Backus as Howard Biggers, Edward Andrews as Spencer Lockridge, Patricia Smith as Diana Gardner, Olan Soule as Train Conductor | Director: James Sheldon
Writer: Peter S. Fischer (1)
Story: Ellery Queen | | | |
| 9 :01x09 - The Adventure of Veronica's Veils (Nov/13/1975) | | Producer Sam Packer is found dead of an apparent heart attack but leaves behind a video saying that he was about to be murdered and asking Simon Brimmer to look into things. Packer's widow, knowing that Simon doesn't know his buttocks from third base, then asks Ellery for his help in the case. | | Guest Stars: Don Porter as Gregory Layton, Peter Hobbs as Dr. Steiner, John Dennis (1) as Tolson, John Lawlor as Director, Romo Vincent as Gus Banana, Barbara Rhoades as Veronica Vale, Jack Carter (1) as Risky Ross/Joey Flanders, John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, George Burns (1) as Sam Packer, William Demarest as Alexander Denny, Julie Adams as Jennifer Packer, Hayden Rorke as Marcus Brady, Joshua Shelley as Dick Bowie | Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Robert Pirosh | | | |
| 10 :01x10 - The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse (Dec/11/1975) | | Norris Wentworth brings an Egyptian sarcophagus from Germany to display at a museum but there's a curse on it that's killed its six previous owners. Sure enough, Wentworth assumes room temperature and becomes victim number seven. Simon Brimmer once again appears on the scene to best Ellery and once again comes up short. | | Guest Stars: John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, Nancy Belle Fuller as Margie Coopersmith, Joel Steadman as Bud Wentworth, Nedra Deen as Lois Gordon, John Larroquette as Bellboy, Gerald Peters as Gilbert, Charles Macaulay as Art Critic, Simon Oakland as Norris Wentworth, June Lockhart as Claudia Wentworth, Ross Martin (1) as Dr. Otis Tremaine, Nehemiah Persoff as Mustafa Haddid, Wallace Rooney as Harry | Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Peter S. Fischer (1) | | | |
| 11 :01x11 - The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument (Dec/18/1975) | | At a dinner party, arrogant mystery author Edgar Manning is presented with the Blunt Instrument Award, awarded annually by the Crime Writers of America, for his book "The Shanghai Solution." Fellow nominee Ellery Queen is not present at the dinner due to a bad head cold so Manning calls him afterwards on the telephone to gloat. He is murdered while speaking to our hero. | | Guest Stars: Robert Cornthwaite as Osterwald, Robert Casper as Melville, Keene Curtis as Edgar Manning, Joanna Barnes (1) as Camelia Justice, Dean Stockwell as Cliff Waddell, Eva Gabor as Magda Szomony, John Dehner as George Tisdale, Clyde Kusatsu as Mateo, Ellen Weston as Mary Parks, Richard Jaeckel as Nick McVey | Director: Ernest Pintoff
Story: Michael Robert David | Teleplay: Robert Van Scoyk, Michael Robert David | | | |
| 12 :01x12 - The Adventure of the Black Falcon (Jan/04/1976) | | Simon Brimmer invites the Queens to a live remote broadcast of his radio show at a restaurant where he promises to reveal the results of a murder investigation. Then one of the restaurant owners ends up dead by poisoning. If you think Simon can beat Ellery to the solution in this one you must own the Brooklyn Bridge. | | Guest Stars: Rosanna Huffman as Nancy McGuire, George Skaff as Maitre'D, Bob Basso as Waiter, John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, Susan Stafford as Hat Check Girl, William Schallert as Alexander, Roddy McDowall as The Amazing Armitage, Tab Hunter as John Randall, Signe Hasso as Flora Schumann, Lewis Charles as Nick Kingston, Howard Duff as Eddie Morgan | Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: Marc Ray | | | |
| 13 :01x13 - The Adventure of the Sunday Punch (Jan/11/1976) | | Ole Frank Flannigan is on the scene again making the usual first class nuisance of himself when a prizefighter is killed while training for a championship bout. The finger of guilt points towards the boxer's sparring partner whose fiancee asks Ellery to step in and clear her man. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Nelson as Vera, Lloyd Nolan as Dr. Sanford, Terrence O'Connor as Melinda Sanford, Otis Young as Joe Adams, Ken Swofford as Frank Flannigan, Jerry Quarry as Kid Hogan, Juanita Moore as Mrs. Douglas, Janet MacLachlan as Corinne Ogden, Robert Alda as Frank Anthony, Art Aragon as Eddie, Pervis Atkins as Rocky, Richard Bakalyan as Knuckles O'Neill, Dane Clark as Sam Hatter, John Furlong as Dave | Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Larry Alexander (1) | | | |
| 14 :01x14 - The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer (Jan/18/1976) | | When a formerly brilliant, now seemingly senile inventor is murdered in his workshop investigators are stumped. It appears as though nobody could have come in or out of the workshop during the period in which the murder must have taken place. It's a classic locked room puzzle for Ellery and the Inspector. | | Guest Stars: Art Balinger as Newscaster, John Fujioka as Restaurant Manager, Patricia Wilson as Bridget, Bobby Sherman (2) as Doug Carmichael, Ellen Madison as Emily Woods, Dick Van Patten as Billy Geeter, Dorothy Malone as Carol Farnsworth, Ann Reinking as Lorelei Farnsworth, Arthur Godfrey as Claude Stilwell, Ed McMahon as Lamont Franklin, David Hedison as Roger Woods | Director: Peter H. Hunt (1)
Writer: Booker Bradshaw, Dave Lewis | | | |
| 15 :01x15 - The Adventure of the Wary Witness (Jan/25/1976) | | An old college chum of Ellery's is accused of murdering a mobster and the case hinges on a missing witness. Ole Frank Flannigan is on the scene too hoping to get a scoop. | | Guest Stars: Jackie Russell as Virginia, Ollie O'Toole as Hobby, Myron Natwick as First Reporter, Ken Swofford as Frank Flannigan, Katherine Woodville as Priscilla Hagen, James Demopoulos as Nick Danello, Robert Stoneman as Second Reporter, Richard Young as Dr. Kemp, Sam Gilman as Judge, Michael Constantine as Leo Campbell, Dwayne Hickman as Linville Hagen, Sal Mineo as Johnny Danello, Michael Parks as Terry Purvis, Cesar Romero as Armand Danello, Dick Sargent as D. A. Calabrese, Tricia O'Neil as Yvonne Danello | Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: Peter S. Fischer (1) | | | |
| 16 :01x16 - The Adventure of the Judas Tree (Feb/01/1976) | | Industrialist and war profiteer George Sherman is stabbed to death with a ceremonial Chinese dagger then dragged out of his house and hung from a tree with a crown of thorns on his head. What makes things even more mysterious is when it's discovered that Sherman was dying of a blood disease and had only six months at the most remaining. | | Guest Stars: Nina Roman as Grace, Peter Hobbs as Medical Examiner, Ted Gehring as Buford, Jack Kruschen as Gunther Starr, James Shigeta as Stephen Yang, Diana Muldaur as Paulette Sherman, George Maharis as Dr. Bender, Clu Gulager as Father Devlin, Bill Dana as Salvatore Mercadonte, Dana Andrews (2) as Lewis Marshall, Michael Pataki as Al Russo | Director: Walter Doniger
Writer: Martin Roth | | | |
| 17 :01x17 - The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario (Feb/08/1976) | | The Queens travel to Hollywood to watch the filming of one of Ellery's novels and get involved in the investigation when the leading man is found murdered. | | Guest Stars: Rod Porter as Assistant Director, Karl Lukas as Sgt. Harris, Paul Fox (3) as Captain Blake, Carole Cook as Gossip Columnist, Jack Murdoch as Al Garvin, Jack De Mave as Sonny North, James Sikking as Mike Hewitt, Barbara Rush as Claire Mallory, Paul Carr as Lt. Carr, Vincent Price as Michael Raynor, Susan Damante-Shaw as Pamela Courtney, Noah Beery, Jr. as Lionel Briggs, Troy Donahue as Gilbert Mallory, Don DeFore as Dave Pierce | Director: Peter H. Hunt (1)
Writer: Robert Pirosh | | | |
| 18 :01x18 - The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman (Feb/29/1976) | | The murder of a socialite who just purchased $350,000 worth of paintings has its underpinnings in events that happened years before in 1922 France. It's a hard road to the truth and Ellery takes the correct one while Simon Brimmer once again crashes and burns. | | Guest Stars: John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, James Andronica as Eddie Hummell, Diana Chesney as Edna, Ben Wright as Anton Lucek, Woodrow Parfrey as Dr. Saltzman, Alfred Ryder as Claude Gravette, Edward Mulhare as Myles Prescott, Victor Buono as Dr. Friedland, Vera Miles as Celeste Wakefield, Forrest Tucker as Clint McGraw, Dr. Joyce Brothers as Lillian McGraw, Theodore Bikel as Sergio Vargo | Director: Jack Arnold (1)
Writer: Robert Swanson (3) | | | |
| 19 :01x19 - The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley (Mar/07/1976) | | Popular songwriter Alvin Wyner is murdered during the musical interlude on a radio interview show when he goes to the station's library to find a record. A waiter who had previously accused Wyner of stealing one of his songs is the leading suspect but Ellery thinks differently and once again gets in a battle of wits with the nearly unarmed Simon Brimmer. | | Guest Stars: Dori Brenner as Laura Schramm, Vince Howard (1) as Charlie, Harold Ayer as Studio Engineer, Billy Varga as Security Guard, John Hillerman as Simon Brimmer, Brad David as Dan Murphy, Renne Jarrett as Penny Carroll, Michael Callan as Gary Swift, Polly Bergen as Dina Carroll-Wyner, Ken Berry as Buddy Parker, Rudy Vallee as Alvin Wyner, Albert Salmi as Herbie Morrow, Norman Fell as Errol Keyes | Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk | | | |
| 20 :01x20 - The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep (Mar/14/1976) | | A star witness at the trial of a mobster is murdered while in the custody of Inspector Queen's office and the finger soon points to none other than Sgt. Velie. It's up to the Inspector to get his subordinate off the hook as well as fend off criticism from his superiors that he's over the hill and relies too much on Ellery. | | Guest Stars: Stanley Ralph Ross as Gabe, Bibi Besch as Edie Allen, Arch Johnson as Deputy Commissioner Hayes, Timothy Carey as Jay Bonner, Erica Hagen as Melody Todd, Michael V. Gazzo as Benny Franks, Elizabeth Lane as Ruth Caesar, Kevin Tighe as Jim Millay, Stuart Whitman as Erwin Murphy, Edward Albert as Lee Marx, Jan Murray as Ralph Caesar | Director: Richard Michaels
Story: Michael Ray Rhodes | Teleplay: Rudolph Borchert (1) | | | | | | | | | |
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