Season 1
(1975)
Cast
Episodes
The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne 9.0
September 11, 1975
The time: 10:00 pm, New Year's Eve, 1947. The place: The ballroom of the Hotel Astor. The victim: Mr. Marcus Halliday. …
The Adventure of the Lover's Leap 9.0
September 18, 1975
A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murde…
The Adventure of the Chinese Dog 8.0
September 25, 1975
On a fishing trip to the town of Wrightsville, Ellery and Inspector Queen are dragged into the case of the murder of a …
The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader 8.0
October 2, 1975
Ellery himself is a leading suspect in the murder of a comic book publisher with whom he'd clashed over how he was port…
The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express 8.0
October 9, 1975
News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the el…
The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance 9.0
October 23, 1975
Beloved Vera Bethune stars as Miss Aggie in a radio soap opera, but is about to be written out. One day she drinks wate…
The Adventure of Colonel Niven's Memoirs 0.0
October 23, 1975
A WW II spy, Colonel Alec Nivin, is on a book tour in New York concerning his memoirs in which he accuses a variety of …
The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party 0.0
October 30, 1975
Ellery and his agent, Howard Biggers, travel to the estate of the wealthy and eccentric Spencer Lockridge. It seems as …
The Adventure of Veronica's Veils 0.0
November 13, 1975
Burlesque producer Sam Packer is found dead of an apparent heart attack but he leaves behind a video to be shown at his…
The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse 0.0
December 11, 1975
Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you kn…
The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument 0.0
December 18, 1975
An awards dinner sponsored by the Crime Writers of America is being held at the residence of writer Edgar Manning who i…
The Adventure of the Black Falcon 0.0
January 4, 1976
Simon Brimmer arrives at a restaurant where he is to give a live-remote broadcast of his highly rated mystery radio pro…
The Adventure of the Sunday Punch 0.0
January 11, 1976
A boxer is killed while training for a championship bout and the finger points towards his sparring partner, Joe Adams.…
The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer 0.0
January 18, 1976
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Ed. Ed McMahon, that is, who plays a once brilliant but now seemingly senile inventor who is murdered …
The Adventure of the Wary Witness 0.0
February 1, 1976
Ellery's old college chum, Linville Hagen, is accused of murdering mobster Nick Danello and Ellery must find a missing …
The Adventure of the Judas Tree 0.0
February 1, 1976
The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dag…
The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario 0.0
February 8, 1976
Ellery and the Inspector travel to Hollywood in order to watch the filming of an adaptation of one of Ellery's novels i…
The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman 0.0
February 29, 1976
Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently lead…
The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley 0.0
March 7, 1976
The radio payola scandals of the 1940's and 50's are recalled in this episode. Simon Brimmer once again tries to best E…
The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep 0.0
March 14, 1976
Inspector Queen is in charge of protecting a mob witness but the witness is murdered before he can testify. Wouldn't yo…
The Adventure of the Hard Hearted Huckster 0.0
March 21, 1976
Frank Flannigan probably wishes he'd taken a vacation as he's made to look foolish on the infant medium known as televi…
The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger 0.0
April 4, 1976
In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year o…