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Season 6
240* "The Man who was Afraid"
09-05-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Judge Jonah J. Goldstein (N.Y. Court of
General Sessions, Republican candidate for mayor of New York)
Announced in newspaper (Wisconsin State Journal) for broadcast on
08-22-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Capt. Charles S.
Vaughn (Pan American
Clipper pilot)
241* "The Blue Egg"
09-12-45 :30:00* Repeated on 02-26-48
Guest Armchair Detective:
Virginia McWatters (opera singer)
An impossible crime has been committed. Where is that missing
fabulous blue sapphire?
242* "The Lost Soul"
09-19-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Shep Fields (musician,
bandleader, just
returned from tour of Germany and France.)
243* "The Green House"
09-26-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
George V. Denny Jr. (associate director of
the New
York League for Political Education)
Announced in newspaper (Wisconsin State Journal) for broadcast on
08-29-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Evelyn
Wyckoff (singing star of
"Oklahoma")
244* "Ellery Queen, Cupid"
10-03-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Edith Spencer (radio's "Aunt Jenny")
245* "The Kid Glove Killer"
10-10-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Eddie Downling (Broadway producer)
Repeat performance guest: Carol Stone (Broadway actress)
246* "The Other Man"
10-17-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Jan Clayton
(actress)
Repeat performance guest: Danton Walker (newspaper columnist)
The master detective throws fast switch and springs a surprise in his
dramatization of a mystery story in which a man finds himself
betrayed.
247* "The Repentant Thief"
10-24-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Commander Henry H.Hale (US Navy Officer,
skipper of aircraft carrier Franklin)
248* "The Halloween Murder"
10-31-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Edward Everett
Horton (actor)
Halloween Show
249* "The Message in Red"
11-07-45 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Bob Steel (producer, director), Chet Kinsbury (music),
Frank
Mellow (sound effects), James Rinaldi (sound engineer),
Virginia Dwyer (commercial spokeswoman).
Guest Armchair Detective: Victor Jory
(actor)
Three
women are murdered on the same night with the same gun.
'The Message in Red' was followed
by a Mr. and Mrs North episode where Ellery Queen helped to
solve "The Murder in Mink"
(11-07-45)
250* "The Happy Marriage"
11-14-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost (stars of
radio's Mr.
and Mrs.North appearing as those characters)
Last week, the Norths' were annoyed when Ellery
made a surprise
appearance on their comedy-mystery
show and solved the mystery
before
they did....
251* "The Ape's Boss"
11-21-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Eleanor Steber (Metropolitan Opera
star)
252* "The Doodle of Mr.O'Drew"
11-28-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Vera Zorina (actress/dancer)
Repeated 05-13-48 as "Nikki Porter, Starlet"
253* "The Peddler of Death"
12-05-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Helen Hayes
(actress)
254* "The Man with Two Faces"
12-12-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Major General Emmanuel E. Lombard (retired
French liaison officer for General DeGaulle
and General Eisenhower)
Repeat performance guest: Vera Zorina (actress/dancer)
Announced guest NY Evening Post 12-12-45: Sir Cedric Hardwicke
(stage
& film actor)
255* "The Curious Thefts"
12-19-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Ralph Morgan (actor)
Repeat performance guest: Virginia Vale (actress)
Condensed story in Story Digest
9-46
256* "The Man Who Loved Murders"
12-26-45 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Jean Sablon (French singer)
"The Reign of Terror"
01-46 :41:14*
A
sales presentation program for G. Washington Coffee, not a
broadcast. The story has an almost
graphic sex scene! It's doubtful
anything this racy was ever
broadcast. The solution to the crime is
the most far-fetched imaginable. An
elaborate and very clever sales
presentation.
Two impossible crimes have taken place: a man is
murdered in a
stalled elevator, another dies on a street in full view of a policeman.
There is no discernable cause of death for
either body. The next day,
a couple with no clothes on are both found dead
in a locked room.
"Flakesy, the mobster," dies
right on schedule.
257* "The Lost Hoard"
01-02-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Saul Pett (newspaper columnist, radio
columnist)
258* "The Various Deaths of Mr.Frayne"
01-09-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Arthur Godfrey
(radiostar)
259* "The Green Eye"
01-16-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Morgan Conway (ex-FBI agent,
actor who
plays
Dick Tracy)
An international jewel thief baffles the police of two continents.
The chase leads from New York to London, with
Ellery investigating the
crime in competition with Scotland Yard and New York's
finest.
260* "The Lovely Racketeer"
01-23-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
James L.Cox (American inventor and holder
of NAM Pioneer Award for his work on lighting)
261* "Ellery Queen's Tragedy"
01-30-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
unknown
262* "The Fifteenth Floor"
02-06-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Marjorie
Rambeau (actress)
263* "The Living Death"
02-13-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Belita (ice skater/actress)
Repeat performance guest: James L.Cox (inventor)
264* "The Three Fencers"
02-20-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Willie Mosconi
(pool expert, world pocket
billiards champion)
Repeat performance guest: Eugene List (pianist)
265* "The Ninth Mrs.Pook"
02-27-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Craig Rice (mystery
writer)
Repeat performance guest: Dick Joy (radio announcer)
266* "The Phantom Shadow"
03-06-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Alfred Eichler (advertising executive/
mystery
writer)
Repeat performance guest: Jean Meegan (newspaperwoman)
In this Queen,
Nikki Porter witnesses a murder, sees the killer and the
victim, but fails to identify
either.
267* "The Clue of the Elephant"
03-13-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Betty Forsling (newsweek radio editor)
Repeat performance guest: Sam Spiegel (radio producer)
268* "The Man Who Waited"
03-20-46 :30:00*
Adapted as "Cold Money" (This Week, 03-20-52 and
collected in
Q.B.I.,
1955)
Guest Armchair Detective: Orson Welles
269* "The Armchair Detective"
03-27-46 :30:00* Repeated on 3-18-48
Guest Armchair Detective:
Private Pat Berkeley (wounded soldier)
The
Armchair detective is murdered whilst Ellery Queen is on
the air. Ellery finds the
solution before the show ends.
270* "The Death Wish"
04-03-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Con Colleano (acrobat tight wire artist)
Repeat performance guest: six of the "Goldwyn girls"
271* "The Girl who couldn't get Married"
04-10-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Carolyn Rolland (associate editor of the
magazine "Seventeen")
In his radio thriller,
Ellery himself falls in love with a frustrated girl,
who
is unable to catch a husband. This crush
sort of dashes a stream of
water on the torch which his secretary, Nikki Porter has been
carrying
for the slick sleuth.
272* "Nikki Porter, Murder Victim"
04-17-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:six
of the "Goldwyn girls"
Plot
"De Muerte Natural" by Rafael Burnal used by permission
The master detective needs plenty of assistance. He has spring fever,
and is lethargic so that even the challenge of a clueless
killing in a series
of brutal jewel robberies, fails to arouse his interest.
That is until Nikki
Porter gets shot. A second attempt is made by
a man in a surgical outfit
and
Ellery strikes back hard and fast
273* "The Man Who Bought One Grape"
04-24-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
James P. Markham (Attorney of Houston,
Texas)
Repeat performance guest:
James H. Pepkin (Texan)
In
Texas there is a poker hand peculiar to that state known as "The
Blaze" This
fact is essential to the solution hence the choice of guests.
An
eccentric one-eyed millionair has been buying one grape a
day from an Italian fruit
vendor. He apparently used them as
replacement for his
stolen glass eye. then the thief is murdered.
274* "The Rhubarb Solution"
05-01-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Joan Edwards (singer)
Repeat performance guest: Saul Pett (newspaper
columnist)
A
dollar bill with a nail polish message aids in finding a farm
woman who disappeared
275* "The Nine Mile Clue"
05-08-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Red Barber
(sportcaster)
Repeat performance guest: Muriel Babcock (magazine editor)
In
need of auto repairs Ellery and Nikki stop in a small town. The
garage owner is
killed and Ellery's car gets involved...
276* "The Crime in the Darkness"
05-15-46 :30:00*
Guest
Armchair Detective: Vernon Pope (editor of
Pageant magazine.)
Repeat performance guest: Margaret Whiting (singer)
Ellery investigates a case where a man uses telepathy
in stead of his
eyes.
277* "The Hollywood Murder Case"
05-22-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Elsa Miranda (the "Chiquita Banana" girl)
Announced armchair detective: Lucille Ball (comedienne)
Repeat performance guest:
Lucille Ball
(comedienne)
Ellery and Nikki in Hollywood. Ellery wants to write a screenplay based
on
the murder of a famous director. Another director claims to
have a
piece of the movie soundtrack that implicates a famous
actress of the
crime. Then soundtrack is stolen and the
second director murdered.
278* "The Laughing Woman"
05-29-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Francis Lederer
(actor)
Repeat
performance guest: John Reed King (radio announcer)
A
neurotic wife leaves her husband for a racketeer. The husband
becomes prime
suspect when that racketeer is murdered.
Trudy Warner was first married in June 1946,
prompting a voluntary suspension of her Radio career and her departure from
the successful Ellery Queen Mystery program.
279* "The Mr.Warren's Profession"
06-05-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Dorothy Dunn (contest winner from Ohio,
guest
editor of Charm magazine)
Repeat
performance guest: Barbara Lewis (secretary)
A
professional blackmailer who had the strange habit of making puns
about
booktitles is murdered . Just before dying he ran a bell over and
over...
280* "The Great Spy Puzzle"
06-12-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
John Reed King (radio announcer, quiz
master)
Repeat
performance guest: Archie Mayo (movie director)
A
man is killed in front of both Nikki and Ellery. He offered them
fragments of a piece
of paper. He didn't get the time to explain but they
can make
out the wordt Ft. Haust on one fragment
281* "Cokey and the Pizza"
06-19-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Elsa Miranda (the "Chiquita Banana" girl)
Repeat
performance guest: Francis Lederer (actor)
Whilst Ellery is investigating how a gangster trapped in a room above
an Italian
restaurant gets his supplies of cocaine, the man is murdered...
by a
Penguin.
Inspector
Queen wants Cokey Cox to sing in the
worst way... Cokey is
no Caruso, his song
will" jail a dangerous mob
282* "The Double Die"
aka "The Devil Die"
06-26-46 :30:00*
Announced armchair detective: Dolores Moran (actress)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost (stars of
radio's Mr.
and Mrs.North appearing as those characters)
A
gambler asks Ellery to investigate who uses loaded dice. Then Ellery
is called away:
in Indiana his phonenumber turned up in the hotel room
of a vanished corpse. The gambler is murdered and leaves a
clue: two
dice turned to show threes
283* "The War Bride"
07-03-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Dolores Moran (actress)
Repeat
performance guest: Richard Long (actor)
An
ex-soldier desperately wants to marry a young French woman he
met overseas.
He's been threatened with murder if he does...
284* "The Confidential Butler"
aka "The
Confidential
Agent"
07-10-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Wallace C. Siple (Canadian flying ace and
trail blazer of world's first overseas freight route for
RAF Ferry
Command.)
Repeat
performance guest: Sunny Skylar (songwriter)
A butler blackmails three of his former employers and gets murdered.
A
tea-brewing clue helps Ellery out.
285* "The Ultra-Modern Murder"
07-17-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Alan Baxter (actor, leading man of "Voice of
the Turtle")
Repeat
performance guest: Ed Hall (newspaper editor)
A
woman is murdered whilst entering a surrealist art studio. She
pulled a lightcord made
of a snake's tail firing off an antique
dueling pistol in the hand of a
Venus statue facing the door.
286* "The Golden Key"
07-24-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Ben Hecht
(writer)
Repeat
performance guest: Maxwell Hamilton (magazine editor)
Three young college students are the focal point of attempted murder.
A Phi
Beta Kappa-key points Ellery in the right direction
287* "The Man Who Got Away with Murder"
07-31-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Ray Bolger (actor,
dancer)
A
lawyer phones in and confesses to a series of recent murders.
To get the better of
Ellery he then claims the caller was an impostor.
The
lawyer is stabbed to death.
288* "The First Night"
08-07-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Milton Berle
(comedian)
Repeat
performance guest: Joan Edwards (singer)
During a seaside vacation Ellery tries to enjoy a first night opening of
a play by the
local summer theater company
289* "Bis to Cal"
aka "Bis and Cal"
08-14-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Paula Stone (actress)
Repeat
performance guest: Benny Baker (comedian)
A
financier turns to Ellery after receiving a ransom note with his
daughter's thumbprint in
blood. But is she really kidnapped?
 290* "The Gymnasium
Murder"
08-21-46 :30:00*
Repeat
of 10-12-42
or
10-10-42
Guest
Armchair Detective:
Warren Hull, Parks Johnson
(co-hosts radio's Vox Pop)
291* "The Doomed Man"
08-28-46 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Marsha Hunt (actress)
A young woman gets blamed
for the murder of a patriarch.
A candlestick clue is all
Ellery needs
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