Ellery Queen's radioplays - page 10

Fragment form a letter dated 16. September 1946 announcing the return of the Ellery Queen radio adventures...

Season 7

292* "Ellery Queen, Criminal"
           10-09-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jean Sablon (vocalist)

             While tracking down a thief-impersonator Ellery gets beaten up and is
             held prisoner in a Hotel room, guarded by a woman. Back in New York
             Nikki doesn't recognize him and to worsen matters the woman guard is
             murdered in a room of dust.

Program of 10-16 pre-empted as CBS decided to present a documentary dramatization "The Empty Noose", in connection with the Nuremberg executions. Followed at 9:15 with a pool broadcast after the executions in Nuremberg.

293* "The Woman who Died Several Times"
             10-23-46 :30:00*
             Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
             Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: John Carradine (actor)

             A politician confesses shooting his mistress. Only she appears to
             be alive and well as she managed to let the politician shoot blanks.
             Some time later a well-known book reviewer comes up with the same
             story, only this time she really is dead.

             Carradine comments that he needs an aspirin (not an Anacin)...

294* "Ellery Queen's Rival"
             10-30-46 :30:00*
             Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
             Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: Rear Admiral H.B. Miller (retired, navy wartime
            director of public information) who speaks from WTOP, Washington, D.C.

             While dating Nikki and Larry Kinnaire (Connair?), detective writer, come
             across a locked room murder. Soon another locked room murder occurs
             and Ellery tries to impress

295* "The Crime of Inspector Queen"
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
            Guest Armchair Detective: Paul Douglas (actor, Broadway star)

             Inspector Queen has to pick up Joe Krupp, accused murderer willing
             to testify against his boss. On the way back from LA Krupp is killed
             and Inspector Queen is the prime suspect. Fortunately Ellery went
             along...

296* "The Uneasy Voyage"
             11-13-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee, Carmina Freeman & Tom Everitt
             Guest Armchair Detective: Carmina Freeman (editorial director of
             Baffling Detective magazine)

             Ellery tries to prevent a murder on a ocean liner. Soon after discovery
             of the presence of a professional hitman, the french patriot is
             murdered.

             Carmina Freeman presents an award to the program. Ellery announces
             that as of next week's program, the "Guest Armchair Detective" will be
             contacted by telephone from among the listeners.

Ellery Queen is trying an experiment which will extend the scope of his murder mystery series. Beginning tonight, he will reach out all over the United States, by long distance phone, to call on listeners for their solutions. The voices of the guest will not be heard on the air, but his reported solution will be given, and then compared to Queen's solution. (11-20-46 The Chester Times)

297* "The Prize Fighter's Birthday"
           11-20-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Richard Manoff
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Columbus, Ohio
             Announced armchair detective (10-23-46): Richard Arlen (screen star)

           A prizefighter is asked to throw his 26th fight, he refuses and gets a
             bomb package which nearly kills him.

298* "Ellery Queen, Blackmail Victim"
             11-27-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Chicago, Illinois

             A journalist threathens to kill innoncent people if he isn't paid
           $25,000 to be delivered by Ellery. An ambush is laid out, the criminal
             escapes after having hidden the money in the morgue

299* "Ellery Queen, Gigolo"
             12-04-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Cambridge,
             Massachusetts

             When investigating a jewel robbery Ellery goes undercover in a
             escort service. The woman running the service is murdered in
             the street clutching a chess piece.

300* "The Old Man's Darling"
             12-11-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Indiana

             Ellery has the chance to earn $ 5,000 for a children's fund to
             investigate if old John Spuyten's young nurse has been stealing.
             During the investigation the nurse is murdered.

301* "A Hurricane that Committed Murder"
             12-18-46 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone

             A man gets murdered by a bomb triggered by a barometer and
             an approaching hurricane.

302* "Ellery Queen, Santa Claus"
             12-25-46 :30:00* Christmas Show Repeated on 12-25-47
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Jersey City,
             New Jersey

             Ellery visits a man on death row to try to prove his innocence. A
             $1000 diamond ring on the finger of a movie theatre box office clerk is
             the clue he needs to pull this off. The trail leads to a department store
             and Santa Claus who is knifed to death!

303* "The Unhappy New Year"
           01-01-47 :30:00* New Year's Show Repeated 01-01-48
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
           Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Old
             Greenwich, Connecticut.

             When trying to commit suicide an unhappy advertising man gets
             nearly shot. Inspector Queen solves the case.

304* "The Man who could Vanish"
             01-08-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: Mrs. George Tullis through telephone from
            2424 South 26th Street, Arlington,Virginia
             Part of a series of EQ episodes to be restaged with Australian actors and
             local commercials. Airdate 07-16-54 (?)

             Mr.Revenant enters the policestation to confess to a murder
             and says he can disappear at will. Put in jail he subsequently
             disappears without a trace.

305* "The Lollipop Murders"
             01-15-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone

             Ellery is forced on a hoodlum' yacht. A woman left as dying
             message a wrapped lollipop in her mouth.

306* "The Queen Solomon"
             01-22-47 :30:00* Repeat of 'The Three Mothers" 11-26-43
            Written by Frederick Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
            Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Baltimore,
             Maryland

             Mrs. Heather found a baby on her doorstep eight months previously.
             Two women claim to be the real mother. Ellery Queen finds out both the
             identity of the real mother, and of the murderer who kills her.

307* "The Stone Age Detective"
           01-29-47 :30:00*
             Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
             Bob Steel (producer, director)
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Detroit,
             Michigan

             An 84-year old man paid a famous scientist to find a way to extend his
             life and had a tribesman as bodyguard. To no avail: he gets murdered.

308* "The Haunted House" aka "The Hunted House"
             02-05-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Richard Manoff
            Bob Steel (producer, director), with Richard Coogan, Ed Latimer, Bill Smith,
            Charlotte Keane
             Guest Armchair Detective: Victor Jory (actor)

             Sergeant Velie gets himself blackmailed after being photographed in an
             incriminating pose. Ellery tries to help out.

309* "The Green Gorilla's"
             02-12-47 :30:00* Repeated 06-01-47
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jose Ferrer

             A program about juvenile delinquents. Who is behind the street gang
             "The Green Gorillas." Ellery uses a teen-ager "Bob Brown" to get the
              goods on the gang.

Bill Cullen filling in for regular announcer on the Ellery Queen radioshow, February 19, 1947 310* "The Big Brain"
             02-19-47 :30:00*
             Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
             Bob Steel (producer, director), with Lawrence
            Dobkin, Bill Smith, Charlotte Keane, Ed Latimer
             Announcer: Bill Cullen (standing in)
           Guest Armchair Detective: Jean Parker
           (actress)

             In Florida Ellery and Nikki try to solve the
             murder of an Argentine businessman out to
             buy American base-ball players

311* "The Strange Death of Mr.Entricson"
             02-26-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: June Knight (actress)

             In this locked room murder a lawyer, hired by four racketeers
             looking for legal redemption, gets murdered.

312* "Nikki Porter, Killer"
             03-05-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Alfred Drake (actor, Broadway musical star)
             Restaged with Australian actors and local commercials.
             Charles Tingwell played Ellery.as "Nikki Porter, Suspect" with
            Gypsy Rose Lee as guest armchair detective. Airdate 11-19-54

           Nikki gets blamed for a murder after stepping off a train just as
             the loot from a train robbery disappears from her compartiment
             and a man is murdered

313* "The Crooked Man"
             03-12-47 :30:00*
             Likely adapted as an episode from Dumont tv-series The Adventures of Ellery
            Queen, 11/30/50
             Guest Armchair Detective: Warren Hull, Parks Johnson
             (co-hosts radio's Vox Pop)

             A private eye is blackmailing culprits of crimes, many of them have
             commited suicide. Ellery sets a trap by framing himself for Nikki's
             murder. The evidence is in a safe with a timebomb. The clue to to the
             combination is the second verse of the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon"

314* "The Specialist in Cops"
             03-19-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director), with Lawrence Dobkin, Bill Smith,
            Charlotte Keane, Ed Latimer
             Guest Armchair Detective: Bela Lugosi (actor), Joan Barton (?)

             Nutsy Yapp specializes in killing police officers for hire, now
             has kidnapped Ellery. Yapp lets him write a note to his father.
             Can Ellery include a clue to his whereabouts?

315* "The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill"
             03-26-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director), with Lawrence Dobkin, Bill Smith,
            Charlotte Keane, Ed Latimer
           Guest Armchair Detective: Ted Malone (poetry reader)
             Announced armchair detective: June Knight (actress)

             Ellery and Nikki spends some time at country inn due to a
            disappearence, an embezzlement and a murdered man with a
             $ 10,000 bill in his hand.

316* "The Man who Murdered a City"
             04-02-47 :30:00*
            Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
            Bob Steel (producer, director), with Lawrence Dobkin, Bill Smith,
            Charlotte Keane, Ed Latimer, Ted Osborne
             Guest Armchair Detective: Andre Baruch (radio announcer),
             Bea Wain (singer)

             Ellery wants to expose "The Buzzer" who got elected because
             citizens didn't want to vote. When Ellery tells how he discovered
             the identity of "The Buzzer," remember that there was no "Z"
            on a telephone dial!

317* "The Big Fix"
             04-09-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Tom Torsey (American Indian artist at N.Y.
             Museum of Natural History, known in his Onondage tribe as "Two Arrows.")

Larry "Hot" Lipps gets murdered. This gambler was just told
by his doctor he had only a few weeks to live.

318* "The Redheaded Blonde Brunette" aka "The Redhead-
          Blonde Brunette"
             04-16-47 :30:00*
             Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
            Bob Steel (producer, director), with Arthur Godfrey, Lawrence Dobkin,
             Bill Smith, Charlotte Keane, Kaye Brinker, Ed Latimer
             Guest Armchair Detective: Arthur Godfrey (radio personality)

             A night-club singer tries to cash in on the insurance by
             marrying several soldiers. Then she gets murdered.

             Arthur Godfrey sounded either drunk or very sleepy...

NEW YORK, May 24.--Three renewals for half-hour periods on the full network were racked up this week by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Two of the three nighttime shows were re-pacted by Procter & Gamble. Thru Benton & Bowles, the soap company has signed again for the 8 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday period, currently housing Life of Riley. The Compton agency renewed the following half hour for Truth or Consequences.
Whitehall Pharmacal, thru Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, has renewed the 6:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday period, on which Ellery Queen is slated to replace the Bob Burns Show June 1. (05-24-47 The Billboard)