The Adventures of Ellery Queen

(1950)

24 minutes

Television / Series / Crime / Mystery / Drama

Cast: Rex Marshall, Lee Bowman and Richard Hart

The first TV adaptation of the adventures of super sleuth Ellery Queen, broadcast live from Hollywood. Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correct solution by purely deductive reasoning.

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Intro

The Hanging Acrobat (12/21/1950)

Ellery becomes involved in a murder investigation when he stops at a small, rural carnival.

Murder to Music (1951)