 he Adventures
of Ellery Queen
t e r u g
(Mystery Is My Business)
starring Hugh Marlowe and Florenz Ames
The list of episodes with description and the first New York telecast
date (followed by the production order). Some of the music used was also
heared on the tv-series for "The Adventures of Superman"
1* "Stranger in the Dark"
10/02/55 (27)
based on an episode of ABC's
tv-series "The Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode "A Touch of Death"
10/22/52
scripted by Betty Loring & Jerry
Sackheim
A blind girl returns to her apartment too late to
prevent her roommate's murder
but in time to brush her hand
against the fleeing killer's face. Ellery devises a plan
to bring the
face and the hand together again
2* "Mardi Gras"
10/09/55 (17)
With: Ivan Trisault
In New Orleans duirng Mardi gras time,
Ellery comes to the aid of a beautiful girl
who is being blackmailed
after supposedly murdering her lover's wife
3* "The Golden Snow"
10/16/55 (29)
During World War II in Italy, two soldiers
come upon a wrecked medical supply
truck and bury a shipment of
morphine they find inside, planning to come back
after the war
and smuggle the drugs out of Italy. Ellery becomes involved when
their attempt to retrieve the morphine leads to murder.
4* "The Trigger Man"
10/23/55 (16)
Ellery and Inspector Queen are called upon
to break up a kickback racket
operating in the produce
market.
5* "The Moll"
10/30/55 (13)
The young wife of a minister goes to
Ellery for help after an anonymous donor
gives $ 20,000 to her
church and her kid brothers is beaten by an unknown
assailant. It appears her ex-husband, a convict, came back to
terrorize his ex-wife.
6* "A Fatal Signal"
11/06/55 (30)
Directed by:
Ray Nazarro
A fire extinguisher is Ellery's clue to the solution when the much-hated pitcher of
a baseball team is
found dead at the team's Florida training camp, apparantly from
natural causes.
7* "Memoirs Unwritten"
11/12/55 (32)
Ellery is confused when a lonely
middle-aged widow confesses to a murder of a
famed concert pianist.
8* "Woman on the Wire"
11/20/55 (23)
Ellery probes the love and hate
relationships that led to the death of a member of
a highwire act involving two
men and two women. The pocket of a blouse is the
clue Ellery
follows to prove that the death of a trapeze artist was murder and to
trap the murderer.
9* "The Recluse"
11/27/55 (11) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode "Companion to a
Killer" 11/19/52 scripted
by Irving Pincus
and Betty Loring
A hotel bellhop murders the desk clerk and
takes refuge in the room of a diabetic
old woman. Ellery uses a
lump of sugar as part of a plan to capture the murderer
without endangering then hostage.
10* "One Week to Live"
12/04/55 (19) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen"
episode
2/3/52
scripted by
John C.Gibbs.
A bereaved widow is visited by a
stranger who demands that she share with him
the insurrance
proceeds on her late husband's life. She goes to Ellery for help
and he
decides to investigate the stranger's racket.
11* "Close-up of Murder"
12/11/55 (7) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen"
episode 10/29/52 scripted
by Henry Misrock.
Directed by Harold Schuster
Ellery becomes involved when
the wife of a Hollywood producer is murdered
after the
producer receives threatening letters - which the police
think he sent to
himself.
12* "Design for Revenge"
12/18/55 (28)
A former district attorney,
just released from a mental institution, decides to take
revenge on Ellery
Queen for an imagined wrong that had caused him to lose his
job by comitting a series of baffling crimes. Ellery is called in to investigate.
13* "The Mask of Rosselli"
12/25/55 (14) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode
"The Two-Faced-Man" 10/15/52 Writer:
Dwight V.
Babcock
Directed by Ray Nazarro
With: Barbara Woodell
Ellery is baffled when an
American doctor is kidnapped in Rome only to be
identified a few
weeks later as a dangerous masked murderer
14* "Mr.Big"
01/01/56 (31) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode
2/10/52 scripted by
Betty Loring
Directed by: Ray Nazarro
Ellery suspects that the
suicide death of a smalltime gangster is connected with
the operations
of the underworld's Mr.Big.
15* "Custom Made"
01/08/56 (2) based on an episode of
ABC's tv-series "The
Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode
10/08/52 scripted by
Raphael Hayes and Helene Hanff
Directed by
Harry Keller
With: Jalma
Lewis (Dorothy Smith),Joey Pay (Larry Hacket)
Melville Cooper (Jason Beckworth)
When his date receives the
wrong dress, Ellery offers to return it to the shop.
But when he
arrives he finds a dead man on the shop floor.
16* "Woman in the Chair"
01/15/56 (15)
Directed by Harold Schuster
With: Sherry
Jackson
A little girl discovers the
body of an unidentified woman in the home of a
famous Hollywood
actor. Ellery and the little girl help the actor to prove his
innocence.
This photo probably was a promotional shot (for TV Guide or a similar
trade magazine) for the old Ellery Queen TV series from the 1950’s made by
TPA. The tag on the back of the very shapely model reads "Ellery Queen
Couldn’t Pin Anything On Us. See Queen on 13 Tuesday, 9 PM."
17* "A letter from the Dead"
01/22/56 (9)
An accountant for a bigtime
racketeer learns too much about the syndicate and
is marked for
death. Ellery attempt to break up the syndicate.
18* "Doodle of Death"
01/29/56 (12)
based on an episode of ABC's
tv-series "The Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode
4/23/52
scripted by
Betty Loring
Penciled doodles help Ellery
connect the theft of a ruby from a juwelry store and
the death of
a woman at an employment agency
19* "The Fix"
02/05/56 (21)
Directed by Harold Schuster
When a college championship
basketball game is lost, circumstances indicate
that the
star of the losing game was in on a fix. Ellery tries to
uncover what really
happened.
20* "Once a Killer"
02/12/56 (10)
Directed by Harold Schuster
Ellery and his Dad are
vacationing in Acapulco. Mystery immediately happens
when Ellery
and his Dad hear a bloodcurdling scream coming
from the woods!
They discover the dead body of a gorgeous
redhead. Ellery's dad recalls
meeting a man in the hotel bar before
somewhere. It turns out the man who
is on a honeymoon with his
charming wife was once an infamous attempted
killer! Could he be
the killer? And what's the motive?
21* "The White Orchid"
02/19/56 (26)
Directed by Harold Schuster
Ellery is baffled by the
mid-winter deaths of
three people from sleeping sickness, a
tropical
disease carried only by the African
tsetse fly.
22* "Death of a Wax Doll"
02/26/56 (25)
based on an episode of ABC's
tv-
series "The Adventures
of Ellery Queen" episode
5/7/52
scripted by
Betty Loring
Directed by Charles Haas
Ellery gets involved when a
young boy,
visiting a wax museum to see a tableau of a
murder he
has witnessed, is almost killed.
23* "Vicious Circle"
03/04/56 (18)
Ellery tries to help a
assistant district attorney who was fired from his job and
disgraced
because of his alleged association with a murderer.
24* "The Night Visitors"
03/11/56 (24)
based on an episode ABC's
tv-series "The Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode
"The Man without Faces"
4/30/52
scripted
by Henry Misrock
With: Paula Raymond (Marga), Peter Van Eyck (Rudi Lange),
Rudolph Anders ( Otto Kortmann), Richard Karlan (Willi)
Henry Rowland (Heinz), John Banner (Buehler), Jack Clinton (Joe Bailey)
While traveling in Germany
Ellery witnesses the beating of a young couple by a
Neo-Nazi group wearing uniforms and masks.Ellery decides to
expose it. He
meets with no success however until he meets an
old innkeeper
25* "Dark Corridor"
03/18/56 (1)
Ellery goes to a quiet hospital
to investigate the not-so-quiet murder of an
orderly.
26* "Death in a Ghost Town"
03/25/56 (6)
based on an episode of ABC's
tv-series "The Adventures of Ellery
Queen"
episode 11/01/51 scripted by Henry Misrock
Ellery and his father find a
body in a Western ghost town but it disappears
before anyone else
sees it. Ellery suspects that somewhere in the ghost town
both the victim and the murderer are hidding.
27* "Double Exposure"
04/01/56 (3)
based on an episode of ABC's
tv-series "The Adventures of Ellery
Queen" episode 11/26/52
11/19/52 scripted
by Henry Misrock.
A frightened father comes to
Ellery for help when the kidnappers of his son
warn him not to go
to the police. Ellery compares two photographs and comes
up with a
clue.
28* "Blackjack"
04/08/56 (22)
Directed by Gerald Mayer
With: Frances Rafferty
While vacationing on a ranch in
Nevada, Ellery witnesses a blackjack game that
ends in
murder. His problem is that too many suspects are eager to
confess to
the crime.
29* "Backfire"
04/15/56 (5 or 20)
Ellery becomes involved when a
group of college girls devise what they think is
a scheme to
the "perfect crime".
30* "Comeback"
04/22/56 (5 or 20)
Working title "The Last Pay-Off"
Scripted by
Jerry Sackheim & John C. Gibbs
This episode begins
in a training gym.A fighter is in danger of dying
of a
brain injury if he goes into the ring to meet the champion.
Ellery tries to save
the boxer's life.
Later, boxing champion Joey Vinson is killed and Ellery
investigates the murder.
31* "The Star of Kashmir"
04/29/56 (8)
The theft of a valuable
sapphire, the murder of a janitor, and the receipt
by the
police of an anonymous letter, exposing a diamond cutter as an ex-convict bring
Ellery into the
case.
32* "Mission of Murder"
05/06/56 (4)
With: Brian
Keith (Rails), Rhys Williams (Jackson),
Elisha Cook, Jr. (Matty),
Viola Rye (Rose la Monge), Richard Karlan (Alexis), Harry Shannon
(Harve Miller)
An old Spanish good-luck coin that brings
nothing but trouble to it's owner
arouses the interest of
Inspector Queen and Ellery. In an old mission on the
water front they come face to
face with brute violence and murder.
(Based on "Ellery Queen on the Small
Screen" by Francis M.Nevins Jr.
in The Armchair Detective volume 12, 1979
"The Live Television of Ellery Queen" by Francis M.Nevins
Jr
in The Armchair Detective volume 17, 1984)
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