The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

Season

1958

USA

7.2

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 correction solution by purely deductive reasoning.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Glass Village

When a sprightly 91-year-old woman is found murdered, Ellery Queen fights the wrath of a small town mob to protect a suspect, a vagrant.

S1 • E2

The King Is Dead

Ellery and Inspector Queen are approached by Abel Bendigo, a member of the powerful Bendigo munitions company family, when the life of brother King is threatened. Ellery refuses the case until he learns that the government protects him.

S1 • E3

Ten Days of Wonder

Fearful that his father is going to be killed, a neurotic young sculptor, Howard Van Horn, calls in EIlery for help. Van Horn fears he has committed terrible crimes during his amnesia spells.

S1 • E4

The Door Between

The story deals with the mysterious death of a well-known writer which takes place while a girl believed to be the daughter of her fiance is in the next room. Karen Leith is found dead by the girl, Eva, who is then accused of murder.

S1 • E5

The Eighth Mrs. Bluebeard

An insurance company is forced to pay out $50,000 on a policy when a man's wife dies in a canoe accident. The company suspects the man has killed several wives for their insurance and sends Jack Graham to bait a trap for the killer.

S1 • E6

Cat of Many Tails

The mayor of New York City calls on Ellery to help solve a series of murders for which the police can find no motive but which they believe to be the work of one killer called The Cat who strangles his victims with a silk cord.

S1 • E7

Death Before Bedtime

Ellery is invited to spend a weekend at the home of U. S. Senator Leander Rhodes by the latter's daughter Ellen, a capricious cutie. But shortly after Ellery's arrival, Rhodes is murdered.

S1 • E8

Double, Double

Responding to an SOS from an old reporter friend, Ellery journeys to a small, unfriendly town. Upon requesting the whereabouts of his friend, he is beaten and tossed in jail. A nursery rhyme holds the solution to five accidental deaths.

S1 • E9

So Rich, So Lovely, So Dead

S1 • E10

Diamond Studded Typewriter

Ellery is forced by a notorious smuggler, James Garvin, to accept a gift of a typewriter. Garvin is murdered and the suspects are: His daughter, his current girlfriend, his former wife, and an English diamond merchant.

S1 • E11

Four and Twenty to Live

Pretty young Jennifer Phillips asks Ellery to save her father from electrocution for a crime she says he didn't commit and sets off a race against time to save him.

S1 • E12

Paint the Town Black

Ellery Queen (George Nader) discovers that a statue he has recently received is eagerly sought after by a secret agent and the daughter of a deposed Middle East dictator.

S1 • E13

The Hollow Man

Ellery becomes involved in the search for a former welterweight champion who's been missing for five years.

S1 • E14

Bury Me Deep

A girl becomes the unintended victim of a poison plot against Queen.

S1 • E15

The Jinn City Story

Innocent man is saved from being railroaded through courts on a murder charge.

S1 • E16

Revolution

S1 • E17

The Murder of Whistler's Brother

A painting disappears and an old friend of Queen's father is threatened.

S1 • E18

Death Liked It Hot

S1 • E19

The Hinnolity Story

S1 • E20

Chauffeur Disguise

S1 • E21

Shadow of the Past

S1 • E22

The Chemistry Set

Ellery helps in the investigation of children's chemistry sets that are found to contain explosives.

S1 • E23

Cartel for Murder

S1 • E24

A Girl Named Daisy

S1 • E25

The Paper Tigers

S1 • E26

The Lecture

S1 • E27

Confession of Murder

S1 • E28

Castaway on a Nearby Island

Ellery helps the police investigate the death of an eccentric recluse, Janus Parr, found in his old, dilapidated house amongst a vast collection of useless items.