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Ellery Queen :: The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster (01x21)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster
Episode #: 01x21
Production Number: 43612
Original Airdate: Sunday March 21st, 1976
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Episode Crew
Director: Edward M. Abroms
Writer: Robert Swanson (3)
 
Episode Summary
 
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Ole Frank Flannigan is made to look foolish in the infant medium known as television in this episode about a nasty tobacco company marketing executive who gets murdered just before agreeing to sponsor a television show starring our favorite muckraking reporter.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Herb EdelmanplayedMax SheldonRecurring (second appearance)
Ken SwoffordplayedFrank FlanniganRecurring (5th appearance)
Maggie NelsonplayedVeraRecurring (third appearance)
Bob Crane (1)playedJerry Crabtree 
Carolyn Jones (2)playedRita Radcliffe 
Charles BerganskyplayedChauffeur 
Danny Wells (1)playedWaiter 
Eddie BrackenplayedHorace Manley 
Fred Beir (1)playedJames Bevin Long 
Juliet MillsplayedFlorence Ames 
 
Main Cast
 
Jim HuttonplayedEllery Queen
David WayneplayedInspector Richard Queen
Tom ReeseplayedSergeant Thomas Velie
 
Episode Notes
 
This episode marks Ken Swofford's fifth and final appearance as muckraking reporter Frank Flannigan who fared no better than Simon Brimmer when it came to besting Ellery Queen.
 
Bob Crane is best known for his role as Colonel Robert Hogan on the classic 1964-70 CBS comedy Hogan's Heroes.
 
Carolyn Jones is best known to TV viewers for playing Morticia Addams on The Addams Family.
 
Juliet Mills just recently finished a nine year run as witch Tabitha Lennox on the NBC daytime drama Passions. She is the sister of actress Hayley Mills and the daughter of noted British actor John Mills.
 
Eddie Bracken is best known to 1980's movie goers as theme park owner Roy Walley in the classic 1982 comedy National Lampoon's Vacation.
 
David Wayne and Carolyn Jones both played villains on the 60s Batman series, as the Mad Hatter and Marsha Queen of Diamonds respectively.
 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Flannigan: (about Ed Sullivan) Old wooden face! That zombie won't last two weeks on TV.
 
 
Other Episode Crew
 
Executive ProducerRichard Levinson  |  William Link
ProducerPeter S. Fischer (1)  |  Michael Ray Rhodes
Unit Production ManagerJack Terry
MusicElmer Bernstein
Costume DesignerCharles Waldo
Make-upBrad Wilder
 
 
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