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llery Queen's Minute Mysteries (Syndicated) has had
no less than 520 one minute long  mysteries and were produced by Creative Marketing and Communications, Cincinnati, Ohio. Issued on a reel-to-reel format the made four boxes each containing about 130 episodes: 
            Set 1: November 1965 (episode 1-130)
            Set 2: April 1966 (episode 131-259)
            Set 3: September 1966 (episode 260-390)
            Set 4: February 1967 (episode 391-520)

In alphabetical order here's a list of one minute long mysteries. Each episode opening with "Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries...This is Ellery Queen with the case I call the..." 
Bill Owen played the role of Ellery.
These silly vignettes are reported to have caused outbreaks of giggles among personnel of the stations that aired them, but they could still be heard around the country in odd moments of the broadcast day until the early 1980s. When the licenses to air these programs were terminated, the Creative Marketing geniuses bleeped out Ellery's name from the audio masters and substituted "John Q." (Nevins)

The ones marked with red dot are missing from my
 collection and are therefore unconfirmed titles

Episodic log

Listen again to Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries!

Thanks to David Marcum (Maryville, TN)