Ellery Queen (1975–1976)

1. S01E01Season's bestThe Adventure of Auld Lang SyneSeptember 11, 1975 9.0The 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
2. S01E02The Adventure of the Lover's LeapSeptember 18, 1975 9.0A 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
3. S01E03The Adventure of the Chinese DogSeptember 25, 1975 8.0On 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 w
4. S01E04The Adventure of the Comic Book CrusaderOctober 2, 1975 8.0Ellery 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 publishe
5. S01E05The Adventure of the 12th Floor ExpressOctober 9, 1975 8.0News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the elevator except the vic
6. S01E06The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell PerformanceOctober 23, 1975 9.0Beloved 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 p
7. S01E07The Adventure of Colonel Niven's MemoirsOctober 23, 1975—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
8. S01E08The Adventure of the Mad Tea PartyOctober 30, 1975—Ellery and his agent, Howard Biggers, travel to the estate of the wealthy and eccentric Spencer Lockridge. It seems as though Biggers wants
9. S01E09The Adventure of Veronica's VeilsNovember 13, 1975—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
10. S01E10The Adventure of the Pharaoh's CurseDecember 11, 1975—Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you know it, there's curse
11. S01E11The Adventure of the Blunt InstrumentDecember 18, 1975—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 th
12. S01E12The Adventure of the Black FalconJanuary 4, 1976—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
13. S01E13The Adventure of the Sunday PunchJanuary 11, 1976—A boxer is killed while training for a championship bout and the finger points towards his sparring partner, Joe Adams. Joe's girlfriend, Co
14. S01E14The Adventure of the Eccentric EngineerJanuary 18, 1976—Heeeeeeeeeeere's Ed. Ed McMahon, that is, who plays a once brilliant but now seemingly senile inventor who is murdered in his electric train
15. S01E15The Adventure of the Wary WitnessFebruary 1, 1976—Ellery's old college chum, Linville Hagen, is accused of murdering mobster Nick Danello and Ellery must find a missing witness who can prove
16. S01E16The Adventure of the Judas TreeFebruary 1, 1976—The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dagger and then dragged
17. S01E17The Adventure of the Sinister ScenarioFebruary 8, 1976—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 s
18. S01E18The Adventure of the Two-Faced WomanFebruary 29, 1976—Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently leading a double life. Th
19. S01E19The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan AlleyMarch 7, 1976—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
20. S01E20The Adventure of Caesar's Last SleepMarch 14, 1976—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 eviden
21. S01E21The Adventure of the Hard Hearted HucksterMarch 21, 1976—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 concer
22. S01E22The Adventure of the Disappearing DaggerApril 4, 1976—In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year old unsolved murder ca

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