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Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
t e r u g
(Ellery Queen)
starring George Nader:
1* "The Glass Village"
9/26/58
Ellery pays a visit to a cousin who
is judge in a New England village. When
an elderly woman
painter is bludgeoned to death, the townsfolk are quick
to suspect a
tramp who was passing through the area. Against the whishes
of the judge and Ellery, a posse is formed to go after the
tramp.
The debut episode was propably the
best2* "The King is Dead"
10/03/58
scriptwriter Howard Rodman
With
Ilona Massey, Torin Thatcher, Les Tremayne (3)
Ellery and Inspector Queen are
approached by Abel Bendigo, a member of
the powerful Bendigo
Munitions Company family, when the life of his
brother King is
threatened.
3* "Ten Day's Wonder"
10/10/58
With Otto Kruger (2) Virginia Gibson, John Lupton, John Dehner (3)
Howard Van Horn, a young
sculptor, asks Ellery to watch him during one
of his recurrent
attacks of amnesia. Van Horn is afraid that he is committing
crimes during his blackouts.
4* "The Door Between"
10/17/58
Teleplay by Michael Dyne (3)
With Robert Lowery, Adrienne
Marden (3)
Karen Leith, born and raised in
Japan, comes to live on Washington
Square, where she lives
the life of a recluse, concentrating on writing her
novels.
The she meets an old friend, Dr.McClure, and soon they announce
their forthcoming marriage, which is opposed by the doctor's
daughter.
When Karen is found killed, Mc Clure's daughter is
accused.
 5* "The Eighth Mrs.Bluebeard"
10/24/58
from novel by Hillary Waugh, scriptwriter
Mel Goldberg
With
Jann Darlyn (EQ's girlfriend), Jeanne
Cooper, Gene Raymond (1,3)
An insurance company is forced to pay out
$50,000 on a policy when a man's wife dies in
a canoe accident.
The company believes that
the man has killed several
wifes for their
insurance, and sends salesman Jack Graham
to bait a
trap for the killer.
6* "Cat of Many Tails"
10/31/58
With
John Abbott, Paul Langton
(3)
The mayor of New York City calls on
Ellery to help solve a series of
strangulations for which
the police can find no motive but which they
believe to be the work
of one killer.
7* "Death before Bedtime"
11/07/58
from novel by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
With
Neil Hamilton, Heather Angel
(3)
Ellery accepts an invitation to visit
Senator Leander Rhodes, who plans to
run for president. But shortly
after Ellery's arrival, Rhodes is murdered
8* "Double, Double"
11/14/58
scriptwriter John Roeburt
With
Luana Anders, Rhys Williams
(3)
Ellery receives in the mail a number of newspaper
clippings relating a series
of supposedly
accidental deaths in a small town where he once lived. Then he is
visited by a young girl from the same town who tells him that her
father has
disappeared and asks for his help.
Episode 11/21/58 pre-empted
9* "So Rich, so Lovely and so Dead"
11/28/58
from novel by Harold Q.Masur
With Eva Gabor, Thomas Gomez
(3)
Ellery investigates the murder of a wealthy
contess who was killed
shortly after appealing to him for help.
10* "The Diamond-Studded Typewriter"
12/05/58
from novel by Carlton
Keith
With James Gavin, Olive
Sturgess (3)
Alice Anthony asks
handwriting expert Jeff Green to help her prove that
the late James
Gavin is her father, who deserted her and her mother years
ago.
A notorious diamond smuggler
forces Ellery to accept the gift of a typewriter
at gunpoint and is
murdered shortly after.
11* "Four and Twenty - to Live"
12/12/58
from novel by John Roeburt,
scriptwriter: Robert E. Thompson
Ellery is menaced by a girl
with a gun who wants him to phone the
governor and request a stay
of execution for her condemned father.
12* "Paint the Town Black"
12/19/58
from the novel by David
Alexander, scriptwriter S.S.Schweitzer
A friend gives a valuable small
statuette to Ellery for safekeeping. Soon
afterward, Ellery becomes
involved in international intrigue when he's
approached by
strangers who first offer to by the statuette and, when her
refuses,
attempt to steal it.
 13* "The Hollow Man"
12/26/58
from novel by John
Roeburt, scriptwriter
Howard Rodman
With Frank
Silvera (Sol), Whitney Blake
(Nina), Murvyn Vye (Marco) ,
Wesley Lau
(Max), John Goddard (Rocky), John Munroe
(Aldo),
Russell Trent (Hobie), John Newton
(Lt.Anders).
Ellery becomes involved
in the search for
former welterweight champion who's been
missing for five years.
14* "Bury me Deep"
01/02/59
from novel by Harold Q.Masur,
scriptwriter William Mourne
With Richard Long, Pat McVey and Joanne Linville. (2)
Ellery returns unexpectedly to
his New York apartment and finds a beautiful
woman, apparently
drunk and making herself at home. Shortly, however,
the woman
dies, poisoned, and Ellery attemps to learn her identity and find
her murderer.
15* "The Jinn City Story"
01/09/59
from novel by John
Roeburt, scriptwriter Nicholas E. Baehr
With Peggy
Castle, Vanessa Brown,
Brian Keith, James Bell (1,3)
Ellery's plane is forced
by heavy fog and bad weather to make an
emergency landing at a
smalltown airport. There Ellery is approached by a
strange
old man who asks him to help someone falsely accused
of murder.
 16*
"Heir to Revolution"
01/16/59
(original script)
scriptwriter: Robert E.
Thompson
With Scott Forbes (British
consul), Jeanne
Moody (wife of British consul),
Gusti Huber, Kurt Kasznar (3)
The U.S.governement asks Ellery to travel to
a
South-east Asian monarchy which is on
the
verge of being taken over by communists.
Ellery is one of the few people who can
identify
a young man who claims to be the
rightful
heir to the throne.
17* "The Murder of the Whistler's Brother"
01/23/59
from
the novel by David Alexander, scriptwriter Sheldon Stark
(1)
With
Shepperd Strudwick, Eduardo Ciannelli (3)
The director of an art museum asks Ellery to recover a
stolen Cezanne
painting within 24 hours
so that it can be shown at an important exhibition.
18* "Death Likes it Hot"
01/30/59
from novel by Edgar Box (Gore
Vidal),
scriptwriter: Robert E. Thompson
with
Anna Lee, Kent Smith, Julie Bennett, Vivi Janis (1,3)
A friend of Ellery's drowns in
tropical waters, but Ellery knew his friend to
be an expert swimmer
and suspects the death was murder.
Episode 02/06/59 pre-empted
19* "Margin of Terror"
02/13/59
from novel by William P.McGivern,
scriptwriter: Warner Law
During a speaking engagement in
Naples, "Papa George" Dimitrovitch, a
former Soviet
official who defected to the United States, is kidnapped by
Soviet
agents who intend to force him to return to Russia. Ellery
extends
his Italian vacation and tries to find Papa George.
20* "The Room Upstairs"
02/20/59
aka "Chauffeur Disguise"
With Frankie Darro,
Joan Hackett ? (3)
from novel by Mildred
Davis, scriptwriter Don Ettlinger
With
Marion Seldes (Hilda), Judith Braun (Doris),
Dayton Lummis (Mr.Corwith), Dabbs Greer (Jake)
Ellery receives a call
for help from a friend, a small-town policeman who
suspects
that an auto accident involving the daughter of a prominent
citizen is connected with the finding of the unidentifiable body
of a young
girl in the river.
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