The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Seasons

1950

USA

6.3

Ellery 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.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Bad Boy

S1 • E2

The House of Terror

S1 • E4

The Long Count

S1 • E5

The Three Lame Men

S1 • E6

The Crooked Man

S1 • E7

The Human Weapon

Mr. Sykes' wife has him committed to an insane asylum.

S1 • E8

The Adventure of the Blind Bullet

S1 • E9

Two Pieces of Silver

S1 • E10

The Hanging Acrobat

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

S1 • E11

The Star of India

S1 • E12

The Adventures of the Survivors' Club

S1 • E13

Prescription for Treason

S1 • E15

Murder in Hollywood

S1 • E16

The Man Who Killed Cops

Joe Huckleberry, a gangster operating a protection racket in Manhattan's Lower East Side, kills a cop who spotted him beating up an old man, but no one will testify against him. Ellery Queen decides to help his father get the evidence he needs for a conviction. This involves beating the Huckleberry at cards so badly that the he needs to steal the money he lost back from Queen.

S1 • E17

The Hanging Patient

The Adventure of the Jewel-Handled Knife

S1 • E18

The Adventure of the Jewel-Handled Knife

S1 • E19

The Case of the Falling Corpse

S1 • E20

The Adventure of the Strange Voyage

S1 • E21

The Madcap Robbery

S1 • E22

The Adventure of the Manhunt

S1 • E23

Murder at the Museum

The Adventure of the Man Who Enjoyed Death

S1 • E24

The Adventure of the Man Who Enjoyed Death

A prosecutor driven mad by having been publicly humiliated in court losing a high profile murder case, sets out to destroy EQ (Lee Bowman) by committing the "perfect crime".

S1 • E25

The Case of the Frightened Lady

S1 • E26

The Baseball Murder Case

S1 • E27

Murder for Twelve Cents

S1 • E28

The Key to Murder

S1 • E29

Death Spins a Wheel

Police in an upstate New York resort town have declared the death of pianist Bob Dawson a suicide, but his girlfriend, a singer at a local casino isn't convinced - especially because a counterfeit 10-dollar bill was found clutched in his hand. Ellery agrees to become Janine's accompanist to investigate Bob's suspicious death.