Ellery Queen Season 1

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1x01 The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne aired Sep 11, 1975

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):... read more

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1x02 The Adventure of the Lover's Leap aired Sep 18, 1975

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 o... read more

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1x03 The Adventure of the Chinese Dog aired Sep 25, 1975

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 h... read more

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1x04 The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader aired Oct 02, 1975

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 se... read more

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1x05 The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express aired Oct 09, 1975

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... read more

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1x06 The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance aired Oct 19, 1975

Radio star Vera Bethune is poisoned during the taping of her show. She survives and asks Ellery from her hospital bed to look into things. Unfortunately for ... read more

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1x07 The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs aired Oct 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 and treasonous ac... read more

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1x08 The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party aired Oct 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 to turn one of El... read more

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1x09 The Adventure of Veronica's Veils aired Nov 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 states that no ma... read more

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1x10 The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse aired Dec 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 on the darn thing... read more

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1x11 The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument aired Dec 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 the Blunt Instrumen... read more

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1x12 The Adventure of the Black Falcon aired Jan 04, 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 Inspector are inv... read more

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1x13 The Adventure of the Sunday Punch aired Jan 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, Corrinne Ogden, see... read more

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1x14 The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer aired Jan 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 workshop. This o... read more

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1x15 The Adventure of the Wary Witness aired Jan 25, 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 his innocence. T... read more

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1x16 The Adventure of the Judas Tree aired Feb 01, 1976

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 ... read more

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1x17 The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario aired Feb 08, 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 studio, they meet ... read more

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1x18 The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman aired Feb 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. The case has its un... read more

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1x19 The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley aired Mar 07, 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 falls short. The ... read more

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1x20 The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep aired Mar 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 evidence points to none... read more

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1x21 The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster aired Mar 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 concerns the murder of ... read more

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1x22 The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger aired Apr 04, 1976

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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