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Season 8
319* "The Green Gorillas"
06-01-47 :30:00* Repeat of 02-12-47
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom
Everitt
Tom
Victor (producer, director), Don Hancock (announcer)
Chet Kingsbury (organist), with Lawrence Dobkin,
Charlotte Keane,
Bill Smith, George Matthews
Guest
Armchair Detective (West): Nina Foch
(East):
Dorothy Gordon (radio producer, moderator of "The NY
Times Forum of
the Air.")
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.
..."The play which followed was based on kid gangsterism, as
practiced
by a mob of young gunsels called the Green Gorilla's.
The youthful mobsters
made a racketeer names Johnny Rack their pin-up boy,
and Rack lost no time
in adopting the role of Fagin, disposing of hot cars
picked up by the punks.
Enter
Ellery
Queen and things took a turn for the better.
Queen forced his
way into a conclave of the Gorillas and faced Johnny Rack
unarmed. The
subsequent showdown, in which Ellery made the gangster
yell for mercy,
was the greatest evidence since Pilgrim's Progress that
powers of right must
win. Unfortunately, it was slightly less effective.
The typical Queen comment
was one made after he subdued the gangster. Turning to the
changeable car
heisters, who by now were on his side, Ellery
proclaimed: "There's something
about crime that makes a rat out of a man, and
something about fighting
crime
that makes a man out of a rat." ... (1947
review by Sam Chase)320* "The
Sky Pirates"
06-08-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
Tom Victor (producer, director), Don Hancock
(announcer)
Chet Kingsbury (organist), with Lawrence
Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill
Smith, George Matthews
Guest Armchair
Detective(West) Marion Bell (actress)
(East):: Cy
Steinhauser (Radio Editor of The Pittsburgh Press.)
Two terrorists hold up a
transatlantic airliner, shoot one of the
passengers, rob the rest of the
passengers and bail out over the
ocean. Ellery has plan to
trap the "sky-jackers." It involves everyone
becoming
unconscious after being deprived of oxygen for fifteen
seconds.
NBC's "Ellery Q"
Vamps Till Ready
NEW YORK, June 7.--Unusual hiatus plan goes into effect
after tomorrow for Ellery Queen, which is sponsored by
Whitehall Pharmacal Company over National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Sundays
at 6:30 p.m. Queen mystery series just started June 1, but after two
broadcasts is skedded to take a seven-week layoff.
Filling in between June 15 and July 27 will be Varieties, a musical program
featuring Joe Gallicchio's orchestra with vocalists Jack Haskell and Vivian
Martin. Agency is Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles.
(06-14-47 The
Billboard)
321* "The Atomic Murder"
08-03-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
Tom Victor (producer, director), Don Hancock
(announcer)
Chet Kingsbury (organist), with Lawrence
Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill
Smith, Ed Latimer
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Fay McKenzie (actress)
(East): Eddie Dowling
(Broadway producer)
An attempt is made on the life
of Mikha Bela, a famous atomic
scientist, possibly by the
friends of Martin Borman and the Nazis!
Dr. Bela's wife is
murdered... for an astounding reason!
322* "The Foolish Girls"
08-10-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom
Everitt
Tom
Victor (producer, director), with
Lawrence Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill Smith, Ed Latimer
Chet Kingsbury (organist)
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Eddie Dowling (Broadway
producer)
(East): Marion Bell
(vocalist, singing star of 'Brigadoon')
A
17-year-old gets murdered after visiting a bar. Her friends ask
Ellery to accompany them
for a visit to the same bar
323* "Murder for Americans"
08-17-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Tom Victor (producer, director), Don Hancock
(announcer)
Chet Kingsbury (organist), with Lawrence
Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill
Smith, Ed Latimer
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Jeffrey Lynn (actor)
(East):
Patrice
Munsel (opera singer)
Ellery is asked by young Sylvia to help
find her friend Madeleine,
who has disapeared.
Madeleine's father is a policeman who dislikes
Jews, and Sylvia
is a Jew. The city is being flooded with hate
pamphlets,
which are behind the racist activities.
324* "The Rats Who Walked Like Men"
08-24-47 :30:00*
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): J.Franken
(East): Gerry
Gaghan (Gahan? Jerry Gaghan?)
A
press agent gets hired by three gangster to get them good
publicity. He also gets killed and
Ellery is framed for his murder.
325* "The King's Horse"
08-31-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
Tom
Victor (producer, director), with
Lawrence Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill Smith, Ed Latimer
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): John Emery (actor)
(East): Pam Camp
("Miss Arkansas 1947")
The King of Euridea is killed by a bomb
at the racetrack. Who
planted the explosives? Watch the
newsreel!
326* "Number Thirty One"
09-07-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom
Everitt
Tom
Victor (producer, director), with
Lawrence Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill Smith, Ed Latimer
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Kent Smith (actor),
(East):
Sonya Stein
(radio editor of The Washington Post)
George Arkaris, a mysterious
international figure is suspected of
diamond smuggling. A negro
butler is found dead in the river,
shortly after
playing "the numbers" ...a certain number!
327* "Tragedy in Blue"
09-14-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
Tom
Victor (producer, director), with
Lawrence Dobkin, Charlotte Keane,
Bill Smith, Ed Latimer, Mason Adams
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Danton Walker (columnist)
(East): Jean Sablon
(baritone)
Murder in a radio studio! Zona Blue
collapses right after a singing
commercial, but her evil
husband's the one who gets his throat cut!
328* "Man Who Squared the Circle"
09-21-47
:30:00*
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): George Frazier (columnist)
(East): Warren Hull,
Parks Johnson (co-hosts radio's Vox Pop)
A famous
mathematician claims to have squared the circle. The
proof
is stolen and the
genius gets assaulted. A cryptic clue is all
Ellery needs...
Series returned after two months to ABC with no sponsor.
329* "The Saga of Ruffy Rux"
11-27-47 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
McCullah St. Johns
Ellery
takes on a gangster who keeps jingling two silver "lucky"
dollars...
330* "The Man in The Street"
12-04-47 :30:00* Repeat
?
Guest Armchair Detective:
Gerald Mohr (actor)
The two Marners brothers swindled several people out of their
savings. Elias Marner is caught and police has a handful keeping
him
from an angry mob. Elias escapes and Ellery gets called in.
Joe
sends a morse message in a newspaper to his brother Elias: they
are set
to meet in the Universal hotel.
Not
only does Joe appear to be killed a few days ago but also Elias
is killed
from a room in a hotel right across the street...
331* "Nikki Porter, Bride"
12-11-47 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director), with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Alan Reed,
Herb Butterfield, Joseph Kearns,
Maxine Marx, Edward Marr, Eleanor Audley, Myra Marsh
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Zuma Palmer (columnist
Hollywood Citizens News.)
Nikki quits her job with Ellery in anger and plans to get married to
Hobart Grimman, a known bigamist and a fraud. Grimman is shot at
the altar, but by whom?
332* "The Melancholy Dane" aka "The Great Dane"
aka "The Modern-Day Hamlet"
12-18-47 :30:00*
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director)
with
Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Alan Reed, Herb Butterfield,
Stacy Harris, Eleanor Audley, Paul Frees, Georgia Ellis, Earl
Lee,
Bill Bouchey
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Dick
Williams (west coast editor
Pic magazine.)
A Hamlet In modern dress is saved from murder . When Willis Dane's
father dies suddenly, his
mother immediately marries Willis' uncle
Claude. Uncle Claude is murdered and young Willis is accused of the
crime.
333* "Ellery Queen: Santa Claus"
12-25-47 :30:00* Repeat of 12-25-46
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Tom Everitt
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director), with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Alan Reed,
Herb Butterfield
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Fabius
Friedman (west coast
editor Radio Best magazine)
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!
334* "The Unhappy New Year"
01-01-48 :30:00* Repeat 01-01-47
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Bob Steel (producer, director)
When
trying to commit suicide an unhappy advertising man gets
nearly shot. Inspector
Queen solves the case.
PROGRAM PALAYER: An Ellery Queen whodunit is revived for
Ford Theater, KGNC-NBC, when "The Adventures of the Bad Boy" is heard at 4
this afternoon.
(01-04-48
Amarillo News-Globe)
After one of these re-runs Kaye
Brinker took over Nikki's part
335* "The Head Hunter"
01-08-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony
Boucher
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, William
Conrad,
Luis Van Rooten, Charles McGraw, Tony Barrett
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Alyce Canfield
(magazine writer).
A "head-hunter" has committed two murders in the underworld and
is after more gamblers. The masked "Head Man" commits another
murder and even shoots Sergeant Velie! Who is this guy?
336* "The Terrified Man"
01-15-48 :30:00* repeat of
"The Invisible Clue" 01-15-42
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence Dobkin,
Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, John Brown
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Jerry Devine
(radio producer)
A case that has only one character—and he is
murdered!
Mr. Brown has received a "poisoned soap" letter, threatening his
death. Brown is going to be killed by "someone he sees every day."
After Brown is killed, Ellery takes a look at the contents of Brown's
medicine chest.
337* "The Private Eye"
01-22-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Henry Morgan
(comedian, quizmaster)
Restaged for Australian audiences 07-30-54
Private
eye Cam Clubb tries to unravel the murder of a statesman in
exile. He comes
across... Ellery Queen.
338* "Death House"
01-29-48 :30:00* Repeat
of "The Death Traps" 05-27-43
Written by Frederick Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Jeff Chandler (billed as "Ira Grossel"), Herb
Butterfield, Kaye Brinker,
Alan Reed, Lurene Tuttle, Earl Lee, Ralph Moody, Wilms Herbert
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Erskine Johnson (Hollywood columnist)
When the strange Mr. Lazarus dies and leaves his entire estate to
Mrs. Madge Manus, there are two
conditions...and several attempts
on her
life.
339* "Bubsy"
02-05-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Buddy
Rogers, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Frees, Herb Butterfield, Kaye
Brinker,
Alan Reed, Edwin Max, Eleanor Audley, Jack Petruzzi, Peter
Leeds, Harold
Dryanforth
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Charles 'Buddy'
Rogers
Bubsy Chum is a 6' 6" stupid killer who's a one man crime wave.
Who is behind Bubsy? After kidnapping Ellery and Nikki, Bubsy's
planning to
kill them both unless Ellery can name his boss.
340* "A Question of Color"
02-12-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Roy Candy,
Herb Butterfield, Lawrence Dobkin,
Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, James Edwards,
Bill Bouchey, Roy Glenn, Frankie Lynn, Edith Wilson, Earl Smith
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Edith Gwynn
(Hollywood columnist)
Gamblers have set up a colored boxer into taking a
fight beyond his
abilities, so they can win big. The boxer's trainer has been made
drunk, severely limiting the chances the boxer can win. Who
gave
Doc the whiskey?
341* "The Old Sinner"
02-19-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Tom Collins,
Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, Fay
Baker,
Wilms Herbert, Stacy Harris, Ralph Moody
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Virginia
McPherson (writer United Press)
Uncle Bert
(Burt?) has returned and is promptly
poisoned
after a bit
of blackmail.
342* "The Blue Egg"
02-26-48 :30:00* Repeat of 09-12-45
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Frank Lovejoy,
Lawrence Dobkin,
Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, Gene
Leonard
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Seymour
Nebenzal (movie producer)
An impossible crime has been committed. Where is that missing
fabulous blue sapphire?
343* "The Human Weapon"
03-04-48 :30:00* Repeat of 04-01-43
Adapted in an episode of the
Dumont tv-series the Adventures of
ElleryQueen
11/23/50
Written by
Frederick Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with Lawrence
Dobkin,
Luis Van Rooten, Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed,
Lurene Tuttle, Anne Stone, Rye Billsbury
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair
Detectives (East):Joan Barton (actress)
(West): John Nelson
( m.c. of "Bride and Groom").
Mr. Sykes has been placed in an insane
asylum by his wife. He must
be released today so that he can kill his wife...and he asks Ellery for
help! Abel Sykes escapes from the asylum and does in fact murder
his wife...or does he?
344* "The Lynching of Mr.Q"
03-11-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
William Conrad,
Lawrence Dobkin, Edwin Max,
Bill Bouchey, Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker,
Alan Reed, Buddy Gray, Georgia Backus
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Kirk Douglas
Ellery is arrested for murder in a small town.
They take him for
"Scarface Ellery Cue," a notorious gangster and a lynch
mob forms.
345* "The Armchair Detective"
03-18-48 :30:00* Repeat of 3-27-46
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, Joan
Banks, William
Johnstone, Charles Seel, Anne Morrison, Joseph Kearns
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Sheila Graham (columnist)
The
show dealt with the murder of "an armchair detective". Ellery
assured
audiences at the beginning of the program the adventure
happened ' a
long time ago' to avoid an Orson Welles type of
misunderstanding. Sheila Graham at the time quite powerful and
feared confessed she was 'rather uneasy' in the chair
346* "The Farmer's Daughter"
03-25-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with Lawrence
Dobkin, Herb Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, Anne
Morrison, Jeff
Chandler, Luis Van Rooten,
Earl Keen
Rex
Koury (music),
Guest Armchair Detective:
Agnes Moorehead (actress)
Ellery and Nikki are visiting a farm. There's more to the farmer's
daughter than meets the eye. Cueball Mingo has escaped from the
state pen!
347* "The Vanishing Crook"
04-01-48 :30:00*
repeat of __________
Written by Manfred B.Lee
Paul
Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with
Lawrence
Dobkin, Jack Webb, Joan Banks, Kaye Brinker, Herb
Butterfield, Alan
Reed, Eric Snowden, Paul Frees
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective: Arlene Rogers
(winner of the
contest "America's Champion Movie
Fan")
An English jewel thief is being held prisoner, beaten and tortured.
By the time Inspector Queen and the cops break
in, Herbert Frink
has disappeared.
348* "The K.I. Chase" aka
"The Sad Case of Joe Manx"
04-08-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with Lawrence
Dobkin, Jay Novello,
Kaye Brinker, Luis Van Rooten, Herb Butterfield,
Alan Reed, Rye Billsbury, Betty Lou Gerson,
Jimmy Starr, Frank Lovejoy
Rex Koury (music),
Guest Armchair Detective: Jimmy Starr (motion picture
editor LA
Herald Express and
mystery author).
Big Joe Manx is back in town with a Latin bodyguard. Nobody
seems particularly afraid of him. A blank piece of stationery with
the letters "K. I." are the clues to $50,000 and incriminating
evidence when
Manx is shot.
349* "The Slicer"
04-15-48 :30:00*
Repeat of 08-01-45 "Nick the Knife"
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Paul Masterson (announcer), Dick Woollen (director),
with Lawrence
Dobkin, Kaye Brinker, Herb Butterfield, Alan Reed
Rex Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Gene Handsaker (Hollywood columnist,
Associated Press Newsman)
An unknown madman has murdered nineteen women by attacking
them at night while they are alone. The identity of "The Slicer" is
quite a
surprise. 19 corpses are counted before Ellery catches
the
right
man.
350* "Murder by Installments"
04-22-48 :30:00*
Repeat of 12-31-42 "The Man Who was
Murdered by Installments
Written by Frederick Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Paul
Masterson (announcer), with Lawrence Dobkin,
Herb Butterfield,
Kaye Brinker, Alan Reed, Paul Frees, Robert Griffin, Bob
Lewis, Charles
Seel, Frances Chaney
Rex
Koury (music)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Mel Blanc
Dexter Prill, an elderly man who is murdered is played by Francis X.
Bushman (the
one-time matinee idol)
Dexter Prill a very
wealthy old man has two nephews and a neice.
Two of his greedy
relatives have been cut out of the will, leaving
all of his thirty
million dollars to one of the rest. Which relative's
worries are
over? Or have they just begun? The old man is shot
twice, but
only in the arm and leg.
Dwight Hauser directed the
remaining episodes. This week or the next Howard Culver took over the part
of the famed amateur detective...
(Sound of Detection - Nevins)
351* "The Three Frogs"
04-29-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Dwight Hauser (producer, director), Paul Masterson (announcer),
Rex Koury (organist), with Kaye
Brinker, Herb Butterfield, Alan Reed.
Guest Armchair Detective: Florabel Muir (columnist
for "Daily Variety")
Ellery
vs "The Frog" leader of a youth gang of criminals.
Nikki tries to reform a young
delinquent.
352* "One Diamond"
05-06-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Dwight Hauser (producer, director), Rex Koury
(organist),
Paul Masterson (announcer), with Sydney Smith,
Howard Culver, Herb
Butterfield, Kaye Brinker, Joan Banks, Bill Bouchey, Wilms
Herbert,
Eric Snowden, Sidney Miller
Guest Armchair Detective: Peggy Lee
Why couldn't
the murderer of millionair Mark Gallows read
the "treasure- map"
leading to the famous diamond?
353* "Nikki Porter, Starlet"
05-13-48 :30:00*
Repeat of
"The Doodle of Mr.O'Drew"11-28-45
Guest Armchair Detective:
Harvey Fishman (former Quizkid)
354* "Misery Mike"
05-20-48 :30:00*
Written by Manfred B.Lee & Anthony Boucher
Dwight Hauser (producer, director), Rex Koury
(organist),
Ernie Felice (accordionist),
Paul Masterson (announcer),
with
Howard Culver, Barney Phillips,
Kaye Brinker, Herb Butterfield,
Sidney Miller, Anne Stone, Tony Barrett, Lou Merrill,
Guest Armchair Detective: Cliff Arquette
(radio comedian)
Mike was a rat with a difference; he
was a accordion playing
racketeer, but only one tune from "Il
Trovatore." Mike has a scheme
to blackmail opera singers. But who killed "Misery Mike"? The
accordion
provides a clue. Ellery
is forced to disguise
Nikki, as a
famous European opera singer.
355* Title Unknown
05-27-48 :30:00*
Repeat (with new title)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Sam Abbott
Al that is known about this story is that it's about racial prejudice
leading to crime. Ellery investigates
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