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The show appeared on the Dumont Network beginning in 1950 and each episode took 25 minutes. It was broadcast on Thursdays from 9:00 to 9:30 PM. The series was produced by Norman and Irving Pincus, directed by Donald Richardson, with Eugene Burr as story editor and J.R. Lloyd as set designer. Ellery Queen required 25 hours of going through lines and setting scenes. After only four months, less than a third of the way through the season, in January of 1951, Hart died of a heart attack during a rehearsal (January 2, 1951) and was replaced on 24 hours notice by Lee Bowman. Some episode were announced at the end of each episode, often titles were changed by the next week...
The series was also shown in Australia, where it played on Channel 2 on Thursdays at 9pm throughout 1957.
 
The first season consisted of 39 episodes.

First Season

Starring Richard Hart

1* "The Bad Boy"
       10/19/50
       Adapted from the Queen radio play with the same name broadcast on July 30, 1939

       Investigation by Ellery and his father of the poisoning of a hateful old matriarch in a
       rooming house.

2* "The Mad Tea Party"
       10/26/50
        Adapted from the short story collected in The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934)

       At a house party a private performance of Alice in Wonderland triggers a series of
       mad doings.

3* "The Invisible Lover"
       11/02/50
        Script: Ethel Frank
        Adapted from the short story collected in The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934)

       In a boarding house an artist who was romancing his landlord's daughter gets
       murdered

4* "The Long Count"
        11/09/50
         Script: Richard Morrison

        Apparently this was a boxing story, but no description or cast names are available.

5* "The Three Lame Man"
       11/16/50
        Script: Richard Morrison
        Adapted from the short story collected in The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934)

       At first glance the case of the three cripples who kidnapped a banker an left the
       girlfriend to suffocate to death. Ellery and his dad look further...

6* "The Human Weapon"
       11/23/50
        Script: Alvin Sapinsley
        Likely adapted from the Queen radio play with the same name broadcast on
       April 1 and 3, 1943

       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? 

7* "The Crooked Man"
       11/30/50
        Script: Ethel Frank
        Likely adapted from the Queen radio play with the same name broadcast on
        03-12-47

        A private eye is blackmailing culprits of crimes, many of them have commited
       suicide. Ellery sets a trap by framing himself for Nikki's  murder.

8* "The Blind Bullet"
       12/07/50
        Script: Blanche Gaines and Henry Misrock
        Likely adapted from the Queen radio play with the same name broadcast on
        06-30-40

        A ruthless tycoon feels threatened as he received a precise minute and day of his
        death. The magnate turns to Ellery to protect him from this anonymous enemy

9* "Two Pieces of Silver"
       12/14/50
        Script: Ethel Frank

10* "The Hanging Acrobat" aka Carnival Acrobat aka Carnival Killer (?) or
          12/21/50                                               Murder at the Carnival (?)
          Repeated on 10/11/51
          With: Sono Osato (Louise), Kurt Katch (Hugo), Frank Tweddell (Sheriff),
                     Ray Bramley ( Colonel Day), Don Kennedy (Tex)
          Donald Richardson (director), Gilbert Braun (adaptation),  Eugene Burr
         (script editor), Trew Hocker (settings), Ray Carter (music), Rex Marshall
         (announcer: uncredited).

         Amy Muller, a carnival acrobat with too many boyfriends, is found strangled
         to death. The prime suspect is "Tex," but Ellery Queen soon discovers who
         really did it.

                                    
                                    (video Internet Archive)

11* "The Star of India"
         12/28/50
          Script: Ethel Frank
          Later adapted for an episode of (TPA) the Adventures of Ellery Queen 
          "The Star of Kashmir" broadcast on 04/29/56

        Ellery tries to solve the theft of a valuable jewel and a connected murder.

Starring Lee Bowman

12* "The Survivor's Club"
          1/04/51
          Script: Ethel Frank  

13* "Prescription for Treason"
          1/11/51
          Script: Robert Tallman  

14* "The House of Terror"
          1/18/51
          Script: Nancy Moore  

15*  "The Hollywood Murder Story" (2) aka
           "Murder in Hollywood" (1)
          1/25/51
          With: Judith Evelyn (Alice Blythe), Dennis Hoey (Ronny Sinclair), Ronald Telfer
                    (Coil Wagner),  Neil Harrison (Mrs.Jordan), Peter Chan (Mox)
          adaptation: Ethel Frank, script editor: Eugene Burr, music: Ray Carter

          Ellery goes to Hollywood to write a script for a  picture. "I had no idea  how to
          write a picture but the salary was excelllent" Suffering from writersblock he finds it
          easiest to solve a 20-year-old crime. An actor  was shot in his Malibu beachhouse.
          His wife actrice Alice Blythe and his mother-in-law and co-actor Ronny Sinclair are
          the suspects...

          Survives on Kinescope (1) 

16* "The Man who Killed Cops"
          2/ 1/51
          Script: Henry Misrock
          With:  Harry Bellaver, Jean Carson,  Matt Briggs, (...)

          In New Yorks Lower East Side a Cop is killed and a man is beaten-up. A man called
          Joe Huckleberry is selling protection to storekeepers. One coffeeshop is a
          frontend for  a card room in the back. A lot of gambling is going on. When Louie
          takes Joe "to the cleaners" he gets murdered.

17* "The Hanging Patient"
          2/ 8/51
          Script: Ethel Frank

18* "The Jewel-Handled Knife"
          2/15/51
          Script: Henry Misrock  
          Starring Felicia Montcleagre, Ted Hecht, Kurt Katch (2) 

19* "The Falling Corpse"
          2/22/51
          Script: Ben Radin  

20* "The Strange Voyage"
          3/1/51
          Script: Henry Misrock  
          with Jean Carter  (Carole Brighton)

           Story is about the search for some missing
           jewels, and a murder that takes place on a
          ship.

21* "The Madcap Robbery" (1)
          3/8/51
          Script: Robert Tallman 
          "The Chapeau Murder Mystery" (2)
          3/8/51
          Starring Ferdi Hoffman

22* "The Man Hunt"
          3/15/51
          Script: Bob Patterson  

23* "Murder at the Museum"
          3/22/51
           Script: Russell Beggs  

24* "The Man who Enjoyed Death"
          3/29/51
          Script: Henry Misrock  
          With Rex Marshall (Announcer) and John Newland (Boone)   
      
          Charles Boone, district attorney, who's career ended when EQ proved that the
          accused couldn't have committed the crime, returns six months later  to take his
          revenge.
                                             
                                              (video Internet Archive)

25* "The Frightened Lady"
           4/5/51
           Script: Ben Radin
           Starring Jerome Cowan (2)  

26* "The Baseball Murder Story" (2) aka
         "The Baseball Murder Case" (1)
           4/12/51
           Script: Ben Radin  

Episode 4/19/51 apparently pre-empted  episode 27 was rescheduled
to the following week (2)

27* "Murder for Twelve Cents"
           4/26/51
           Script: Norman Lessing

 28* "The Key to Murder"
           5/3/51
           With: Donald Briggs, Don Ameche, Constance Dowling
          Script: Henry Misrock  

29* "Death Spins the Wheel" (2)
           aka 'Death takes a Spin', aka "Death Spins a Wheel"
          5/10/51
          Adaptation: Ethel Frank, script editor: Eugene Burr, music Ray Carter
          With: Robert Harris (Phil Artel), Evelyn Ward (Janine Carr), James Vender
          (Leo) Howard Erskine (Bob Dawson), Lew Herbert (Longio), John
          Armstrong (Scott)

           Last Summer a piano player in a gambling joint called "the Springs" was
           about to be killed. Bob supossedly commited suicide and was found
           clutching a counterfeit bill  in his hand. His fiancé doesn't seem to think
           Bob killed himself. Ellery goes undercover as  Eddie Quinto, piano player...

                                             
                                              (video Internet Archive)

30* "The Frame-up"(2)
           5/17/51
           Script: Norman Lessing
      "Dissolve to Death" (1)
           5/17/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

31* "The Frame-up"
           5/24/51
           Script: Norman Lessing

32* "The Happiness Club"
           5/31/51
           Script: Henry Misrock based on a story by Evelyn Goodman

33* "The Chinese Mummer Mystery"
           6/7/51
           Script: Norman Lessing
           With Anne Marno

34* "Murder in the Zoo"
           6/14/51
           Script: Ethel Frank
           With Joan Wetmore, Kurt Katch

35* "Death in a Capsule"
           6/21/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

          Ellery sets out to uncover a narcotics dealing ring.

36* "The Upright Man"
           6/28/51
           Script: Betty Loring
           With John Carradine

37* "The Frightened Child"
           7/05/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

38* "The Ballet Murder"
           5/12/51
           Script: Helene Hanff based on story by Irving Pincus and Eugene Burr
           With: Tamara Geva, Robert H.Harris.

Second Season

After an eight week summer vacation Ellery returned for 13 episodes

39* "The Twilight Zone"
            9/13/51
            Script: Henry Misrock
            appeared as Photo Mystery in TV Show edition  of January 1952 where no
            title was given...   Full photomystery of this episode
            With: Guy Spaull (Marsden), Eva Gabor (Ilsa), Edgar Franken (Karl),
                       Ted Goetz (Max Leopold), Cosmo Cordello

            A German beer stein , bought on vacation in
            Germany reminds Ellery of what befell him
            and his father in a club in West-Germany.
            There they met British correspondent
            Marsden who meets Ilsa, a sultry singer.
            Propietor Max  Leopold does not approve.
            Marsden is drugged by a red agent Karl and
            swept off to East-Germany where he is
            tortured.
            In a attempt to find Marsden Inspector
            Queen also is kidnapped and subjected to
            the same treatment. Ellery, aided by Ilsa finds
            his  way through tunnels to the "Red Zone".

40* "The Dead Man who Walked"
           9/20/51
           Script: Henry Misrock
           With: Mary Beth Hughes

41* "Murder in the Death House"
           9/27/51
           Script: Betty Loring

           Ellery sets out to to solve a prison murder and prevent a jailbreak.

42* "The Garden of Death"
           10/4/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

           Ellery gets to know a frightened sculptor and finds a murder problem.

 43* "The Hanging Acrobat" aka Carnival Acrobat aka Carnival Killer (?) or
          10/11/51                                               Murder at the Carnival (?)
          Repeat of 12/21/50
          With: Sono Osato (Louise), Kurt Katch (Hugo), Frank Tweddell (Sheriff),
                     Ray Bramley ( Colonel Day), Don Kennedy (Tex),
          Adaptation: Gilbert Braun,  Script Editor: Eugene Burr,  Settings by Trew Hocker
          Music Ray Carter

          Amy Muller, a carnival acrobat with too many boyfriends, is found strangled to
          death. The prime suspect is "Tex," but Ellery Queen soon discovers who really
          did it.

44* "The Gridiron Murder"
           10/18/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

45* "The Coffee House Murder"
           10/25/51
           Script: Norman Lessing

           Ellery visits a poor neighborhood to solve murder in an ethnic coffeehouse.

          Survives on Kinescope (1) 

46* "Death in a Ghost Town"
           11/01/51 (re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
           Queen  03/25/56)
           Script: 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.

47* "Murder to Music"
          11/8/51
          Script: Helene Hanff
          'Kaiser Frazer' commercials presented by Rex Marshall.

          Ellery is invited to the birthdayparty of the famous Maestro, he becomes
          suspicious when the conductor's invalid wife dies under strange circumstances.

                                    
                                      (video Internet Archive)

48* "The Inside Man"
           11/15/51
           Script: Henry Misrock based on story by Irving Pincus and Eugene Burr
           With: Valerie Bettis, Rex O'Malley

49* "Pavane for a Dead Princess"
           11/22/51
           Script: Betty Loring
           With: Billy Redfield, Reba Tassel

50* "The Shape-Up"
           11/29/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

51* "Death attends the Opera" (2) aka
      "Death at the Opera" (1)
          12/6/51
          Script: Helene Hanff

The series changed date, time slot, network and sponsor. It was seen Sundays on ABC from 7:30 to 8:00 PM sponsored by Kaiser-Frazer

52*"Ticket to Nowhere"
        12/16/51
        Script: Henry Misrock based on a story by Carol Gluck
        With: Nils Asther

53*"A Christmas Story"
        12/23/51
         Script: Raphael Hayes

54* "The Long Shot"
          12/30/51
          Script: Norman Lessing

          A murder is committed in a betting parlor, Ellery and his dad investigate.

55* "The Long Shot" (2)
          1/6/52
          Script: Norman Lessing
         "The Unhung Jury" (1)
          1/6/52
          Script: John C.Gibbs

56*"Death in the Sorority House"
         1/13/52
         Script: Henry Misrock

57*"The Feminine Touch"
         1/20/52
         Script: Raphael Hayes

58* "Dance of Death"
          1/27/52
          Script: Helene Hanff

          Mysterious doings in a ballet school, Ellery investigates.

59* "One week to live"
          2/3/52 (re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  12/04/55)
          Script: John C.Gibbs

          A bereaved widow asks Ellery for help after she's contacted by a stranger who
          demands she share with him the proceeds onher late husband's life..

60* "Mr.Big"
          2/10/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
         Queen  01/01/56)
          Script: Betty Loring

          Ellery suspects that the suicide death of a smalltime gangster is connected with
          the operations of the underworld's Mr.Big. This mysterious figure has risen to the
          leadership of a narcotics ring.

61* "Left-Cross"
         2/17/52
         Script: Raphael Hayes

          A corrupt boxing manager wants to fix a championship fight, Ellery looks for clues.

62* "The Red Hook Murder"
         2/24/52
         Script: Richard Ellington

63* "King Size Death"
          3/2/52
          Script: John C.Gibbs

64* "The File of Death"
          10/4/51
           Script: Henry Misrock

           Income tax fraud uncovered as Ellery investigates a murder.

After slightly more than a month the series returned to ABC in a new time slot 9:00 PM Wednesdays with a new sponsor Phillies Cigars and a new title "Ellery Queen's Adventures" beyond these changes the production team remained the same...

65* "The Bar Peaceful Murder"
          4/16/52
          Script: Norman Lessing

          A kind old lady is murdered on a Western Ranch. Ellery sets out to find the culprit.

66* "Doodle of Death"
          4/23/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
         Queen  01/29/56)
          Script: Betty Loring

          Ellery probes a murder that is connected with the disappearance of a priceless
          diamond. A series of penciled doodles provide a clue.

67* "The Man without Faces"
          4/30/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  "The Night Visitors" 03/11/56)
          Script: Henry Misrock

          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

68* "Death of a Wax Doll"
          5/7/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
         Queen  02/26/56)
          Script: Betty Loring

          Ellery investigates a murder discovered by an eleven-year old boy who took a
          shortcut through a vacant lot. When the young boy visits a wax museum to see a
          tableau of a murder he has witnessed, he is almost killed.

69* "Cat and Mouse"
          5/14/52
           Script: Henry Misrock

          A vengefull criminal threatens Ellery's life.

70*"Coroner's Inquest"
        5/21/52
        Script: Raphael Hayes

        Ellery tries to help a boy prove that his father's death was not accidental.

71* "The Not So Private Eye"
          5/28/52
          Script: Henry Misrock

72* "Rehearsal for Murder"
           6/11/52
           Script: Helene Hanff based on story by Irving Pincus and Eugene Burr

           In the milieu of a summer theatre a murder is committed..

73*"Prize Catch"
        6/18/52
        Script: Raphael Hayes

        Whilst on a fishing trip Ellery and his father get entangled in a murder
        investigation.

74* "The Heartbroken Men"
          6/25/52
          Script: Henry Misrock

          Ellery and his father crack a vicious insurance racket

75* "The Third Room"
          7/2/52
           Deze episode verscheen op eBay in Jul 2009 omschreven als "ABC Television
           Network 16mm A-wind Kinescope Composites Ellery Queen #6 #4900 07-02-52"
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Episode 7/9/52 pre-empted by coverage of the Republican National Convention.

76* "The Pool of Death"
          7/16/52
          Script: Betty Loring

          As usual Ellery runs into a murder plot as he checks into a tourist resort and rents
          a poolside cabana.

Episode 7/23/52 pre-empted by coverage of the Democratic National Convention.

77* "Dead Secret"
           7/30/52
           Script: Irving Pincus and Helene Hanff

           Ellery's life depends on his memory as he needs to remember the finest details of
           his last visit to the bank.

78* "The Canvas Shroud"
           8/6/52
           Script: Irving Pincus, Eugene Burr and John C.Gibbs

           Ellery's on vacation and Inspector Queen sets out to the circus only to find
           murder.

79* "A Frame for a Chair"
          8/13/52
          Script: Henry Misrock

          Inspector Queen sets out to exonorate a teenager sentenced to the electric chair.

80* "The Winner was Death"
           8/20/52
           Script: John C.Gibbs

           Inspector Queen attends a prizefight that culminates in murder.

81* "Confidential Agent"
          8/27/52
          Script: Betty Loring

          A blackmail victim and a murderess is what faces Inspector Queen.

82* "The Ten Dollar Bill"
          9/3/52
          Script: Henry Misrock

          Ellery and his dad need to visit a waterfont magic shop as they found a strange
          banknote on the body of a murdered man.

83* "The Wise Man"
           9/10/52
           Script: John C.Gibbs

           Ellery tracks down a blackmail ring.

84* "Ready for Hanging"
           9/17/52
           Script: Helene Hanff based on a story by Irving Pincus

           High-society aestheses fall victim to an art swindle. Ellery intervenes.

85* "Legacy of Death"
          9/24/52
          Script: Betty Loring

          Ellery as bodyguard for a woman who is marked for murder.

86*"Buck Fever"
        10/1/52
        Directed by Walter Hart, Script: Henry Misrock, script editor: Eugene Burr
        Setdesign:  John Robert Lloyd,  Music arrangement:  Ray Carter
        Technical director: Walter Kubilus, Supervision:  A.Burke Crotty
        With: Richard Caryle (Bill Williams), Rusty Lane (Sheriff), Robert Middleton
        (Tim Hadden, Lori March (Claire Williams), Dennis Dengate (Stick-man)    

        Ellery goes hunting and gets accused of shooting a collegue hunter by
        accident

                                      
                                       (video Internet Archive)

87* "Custom Made"
           10/08/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
           Queen  01/08/56)
           Script: Raphael Hayes and Helene Hanff

           Ellery's tailor sends him the wrong dinner jacket, Ellery seeks out the right
           garment only to find it on a dead man.

88* "The Two-Faced Man"
           10/15/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
           Queen  "The Mask of Rosselli" 12/25/55)
           Script: Michael Morris

           Ellery is baffled when an American plastic surgeon  is kidnapped in Rome only to
           be identified a few weeks later as a dangerous masked murderer

89* "A Touch of Death"
          10/22/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  "Stranger in the Dark" 10/02/55
          Script: Betty Loring

          Ellery tries to save a blind girl, the only witness her roommate's murder, who is
          stalked by the killer in the Braille room of the public library

90* "Close-up of Murder"
          10/29/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  12/11/55
          Script: Henry Misrock

          Ellery sets up a hidden microphone to solve a murder in TV-studio during
          broadcast of a live detective program.

91* "The Destructive Angel"
           11/5/52
           Script: Michael Morris
           With: Haila Stoddard.

           The theft of a literary manuscript leads to murder.

92* "The High Executioner"
           11/12/52
           Script: Helene Hanff

           During the performance by an amateur opera company of "The Mikado" a murder
           takes place. Ellery sets out to find the murderer.

93* "Companion to a Killer"
           11/19/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  "The Recluse" 11/27/55
           Script: 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.

94* "Double Exposure"
           11/26/52 re-used as basis for an episode of TPA tv-series Adventures of Ellery
          Queen  04/01/56
           Script: 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.

Unknown titles, possibly alternative title to an existed episode or pre-empted episode...

*"Killer D.A."
     exact date unknown  ? / ? /51

(1) "The Live Television of Ellery Queen" by Francis M.Nevins Jr
 in The Armchair Detective volume 17, 1984)
(2) Brooklyn NY Daily Television and Radio Programs Newspaper, 1951
(3) IMDb