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Ellery Queen mysteries
(DVD)
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Movie (Entertainment) - North Wing Basement
MY 17527
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MY 17527
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| Location | Call Number | Copy Number | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movie (Entertainment) - North Wing Basement | MY 17527 | #1-6 | On Shelf |
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Format
DVD
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
UPC
741952675594
Notes
General Note
Episodes based on the books written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee.
General Note
Special features of this DVD set: series pilot "Too many suspects" ; Ellery Queen interview with co-creator William Link ; collectible booklet with essays and episode summaries.
Participants/Performers
Jim Hutton, David Wayne, Tom Reese ; guest stars: Ray Milland, Kim Hunter, Monte Markham, Joan Collins, Herb Edelman, Farley Granger, Guy Lombardo, Barbara Rush, Ray Walston, Don Ameche, Ida Lupino, Susan Strasberg, John Hillerman, Orson Bean, Geraldine Brooks, Tom Bosley, Lynda Day George, Donald O'Connor, Ken Swofford, Pat Harrington, Dina Merrill, George Furth, Eve Arden, Bert Parks, Betty White, Rene Auberjonois, Robert Loggia, Pernell Roberts, Jim Backus, Rhonda Fleming, Larry Hagman, Julie Adams, William Demarest, George Burns, June Lockhart, Nehemiah Persoff, John Dehner, Eva Gábor, Richard Jaeckel, Dean Stockwell, Howard Duff, Signe Hasso, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Robert Alda, Dane Clark, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Godfrey, Dorothy Malone, Ed McMahon, Bobby Sherman, Michael Constantine, Dwayne Hickman, Sal Mineo, Tricia O'Neil, Cesar Romero, Dick Sargent, Dana Andrews, Bill Dana, Clu Gulager, Jack Kruschen, George Maharis, Diana Muldaur, James Shigeta, Noah Beery, Don DeFore, Troy Donahue, Vincent Price, Theodore Bikel, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Victor Buono, Vera Miles, Forrest Tucker.
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Writer Ellery Queen assists his father, Inspector Richard Queen, in cases that baffle New York City detectives.
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Too many suspects (aired 23 March 1975): Famous fashion designer Monica Grey is murdered, and the police are baffled. Amateur criminologist Ellery Queen, whose father Richard is the police inspector in charge of the case, decides to solve it himself.
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The adventure of Auld lang syne (11 September 1975): At a New Year's Eve party, wealthy industrialist Marcus Halliday viciously insults everyone in his party and is soon stabbed to death in the hotel phone booth. Inspector Queen calls on his son Ellery to help him unmask the killer.
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The adventure of the Lover's Leap (18 September 1975): Stephanie Kendrick, a wealthy fountain pen heiress, is found dead on the front lawn of her mansion. Prior to her death she was reading Ellery's book "The Adventure of the Lover's Leap" and it seems that she acted out a passage in the book which leads to her to jump from her bedroom balcony. Inspector Queen thinks her death is suicide, but Ellery seems to have other thoughts when a Technical Print Man finds a small chard of glass on the balcony. Later during the questioning of suspects, Simon Brimmer arrives at the Kendrick mansion and, in his typical pompous fashion, offers his help to Inspector Queen solve what he concludes to be a murder. Ultimately, Brimmer brings the cast together at the conclusion to disclose the guilty party, but Ellery finds the exact time to speak up and reveal the killer's identity.
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The adventure of the Chinese dog (25 September 1975): Ellery and his father are on a fishing vacation 200 miles from New York City when they are informed of the murder of Eben Wright. He was a rich manufacturer of galoshes, killed by a blow to the head from a valuable Chinese Temple Dog made of solid gold and encrusted with gemstones. Although Inspector Queen would rather catch fish instead of a murderer, Ellery is intrigued enough to sort through the evidence and eventually unhands a dying clue which helps him to pin down Eben's killer.
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The adventure of the comic book crusader (2 October 1975): Abusive comic book editor Bud Armstrong enrages Ellery by depicting him as a hard-boiled sleuth, prompting Ellery to threaten revenge. Shortly thereafter, Bud is fatally shot three times in his office and Ellery becomes the chief suspect.
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The adventure of the 12th Floor Express (9 October 1975): Henry Manners is the owner & publisher of the Daily Gazette newspaper. One day, he arrives for work, boards his private elevator, heads for his 12th floor office, and disappears. Soon, he is found in the elevator, dead from gunfire.
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The adventure of Miss Aggie's farewell (16 October 1975): Beloved Vera Bethune stars as Miss Aggie in a radio soap opera, but is about to be written out. One day she drinks water from a jug and is poisoned in a murder attempt. She is taken to the hospital and survives, but the killer returns.
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The adventure of Colonel Nivin's memoirs (23 October 1975): At a book signing Ellery is introduced to Colonel Alec Nivin who is signing his recent publication "Memoirs of a Spy" on the book's first day of sale. The book is a character assassination of various British, French, and Russian operatives who are now living in the United States after WWII. Later that evening when one of the exposed operatives kills Nivin, Ellery and Inspector Queen must sort through Nivin's files to find the killer. As the list of suspects keeps growing, it isn't till Ellery realizes that the killer could only have bought Nivin's book on the day of the murder at the Gotham Book Store since Ellery was there and he bought the last copy of the book.
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The adventure of the mad tea party (30 October 1975): Fun-loving theatrical producer Spencer Lockridge invites Ellery to his mansion for a weekend of working out how to adapt one of Ellery's works for the stage. But the producer disappears shortly thereafter and is presumed murdered. A series of clues are delivered by pranksters' means. The idea is to try to get the killer to implicate himself or herself.
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The adventure of Veronica's veils (13 November 1975): George Burns (who receives "special appearance by" billing in the end titles) plays Sam Packer, a wisecracking theatrical producer who appears in his own funeral, via a film he made shortly before his demise from an apparent heart attack. Packer's monologue, in true Burns style, is a riff on his own death and how he believed he would be murdered. It turns out the Packer was indeed poisoned in the dressing room of a stripper queen. But she didn't have enough clothes on to smuggle the poison into the room, did she? In fact, nobody seemed to be able to get into the room with the poison. As Ellery says just before revealing the killer: "You'll know who once you figure out how."
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The adventure of the pharaoh's curse (11 December 1975): Much-hated museum benefactor Norris Wentworth is found dead in the museum. The autopsy indicates he died of a heart attack but did he have help in dieing? He was let into the museum by somebody and couldn't reach his nitroglycerin medicine, indicating that whoever let him in also intimidated him. An Egyptologist shows up and claims that the piece, a pharaoh's tomb, was stolen from Egypt and vows that a curse has been laid upon the tomb to haunt anyone who robs it.
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The adventure of the blunt instrument (18 December 1975): Edgar Manning, a mystery writer, wins the annual Blunt Instrument Award for his year's work and goes to pick it up at a party. Ellery, who was Edgar's rival for the award, is sidelined because of a nasty cold. So Edgar gleefully phones Ellery and gives a blow-by-blow description of the award ceremony (including describing the trophy) as he leans back in his easy chair. But the phone call is interrupted by a sickening thud. Ellery calls out to Edgar but gets no response. Cut back to Edgar, who's now face down on his desk. His skull was shattered by ... The Blunt Instrument, the trophy itself.
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The adventure of the Black Falcon (4 January 1976): Letting a fine wine "breathe" proves deadly for the wine's owner Nick Kingston, who leaves it unattended for a killer to poison it. The vintner, who's hosting a party upstairs, comes back only to collapse. He tries to implicate the killer but breaks the wine cellar's only pencil, so he crawls to a wine rack and grabs a bottle, smashing it on the floor. The shattered bottle bears the label Black Falcon, indicating it was tied to World War One. But how?
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The adventure of the Sunday punch (11 January 1976): During a practice bout, a lucky shot knocks champion boxer Kid Hogan unconscious. He revives enough to sip some water from his manager's "swill bottle," then falls comatose and is soon pronounced dead. An autopsy reveals he was poisoned, and the "swill bottle" was loaded with poison. The manager is strongly implicated, but so is the opponent Joe Simpson.
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The adventure of the eccentric engineer (18 January 1976): Famous inventor Lamont Franklin suddenly withdraws from the world and starts holing up in his shed, playing incessantly with his toy trains. So why would someone kill him? A clue at the beginning of the show: before the inventor answers the knock of his killer, he hides some secret formulas in a secret - compartment desk drawer.
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The adventure of the wary witness (25 January 1976): Linville Hagen, on trial for murder, claims that the victim Nick Danello was shot through a window from a fire escape, and that Hagen fired at the killer. The defendant's lawyer Leo Campbell claims that he can bring in a witness, a woman who was beaten up by the victim. But the woman can't be found. When she's finally tracked down, Inspector Queen, Ellery and Frank Flannigan hear a gunshot from outside her window, break down the door and find the woman lying unconscious -- shot from the fire escape.
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The adventure of the Judas tree (1 February 1976): Someone makes the murder of wealthy George Sherman look like a ritualistic killing, hanging his corpse from a Cersis tree (aka a Judas tree, after the one Judas Iscariot supposedly hanged himself from) and adorning it with branches. When George is found to be far less wealthy than thought (he had given everything away except a huge life insurance policy), suspicion turns to his wife Paulette, who already has a boyfriend on the side.
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The adventure of the sinister scenario (8 February 1976): Gil Mallory, an actor playing Ellery Queen in a motion picture, is supposed to be shot on camera, then jump up and nab the woman who shot him, exclaiming "Bulletproof vest!" The rehearsal with blanks goes fine. But the ensuing take with the same gun finds it loaded with real bullets, and Mallory drops dead. The film crew tries to carry on, and soon stunt man Mike Hewitt is killed when the car he was driving is rigged to wipe out before he was ready. Are the two murders linked -- and how?
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The adventure of the two-faced woman (29 February 1976): Society matron Lilliam McGraw is stabbed to death while examining a painting she purchased at auction. She had started to scrape off the painting to get at another painting underneath, and had uncovered the artist's signature -- "Lazar," a key figure in an unsolved (and heinous) murder in Paris 25 years earlier. When the rest of the painting is revealed, it's a portrait of the dead woman herself. Investigation reveals that the woman was in Paris at the time of the murder and may have been the killer, but she lost her memory. Somebody didn't want her to regain it.
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The adventure of the tyrant of Tin Pan Alley (7 March 1976): Famous crooner and cutthroat record producer Alvin Winer is doing a radio interview when songwriter Danny Murphy breaks into the studio and angrily accuses the singer of stealing his song. Danny threatens Alvin, then storms out with several others in pursuit. Alvin is soon found in the music library, dead and clutching a recording of "Danny Boy," which would seem to implicate Murphy. But is it a dieing clue or a red herring?
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The adventure of Caesar's last sleep (14 March 1976): Mobster Ralph Caesar survives a bombing attempt and plays dead, hiding out in a hotel room with two police guards. But he is found dead anyway, of poison. Furious crusading District Attorney Erwin Murphy accuses Inspector Queen and the two guards (including Velie) of serving poisoned chewing gum, the only thing the mobster had to dine on. Ellery thinks this unlikely because nobody opened the packet except Caeser, and starts looking for other ways the poison could have been administered.
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The adventure of the hardhearted huckster (21 March 1976): Madison Avenue advertising executive James Bevin Long wants to make newspaper columnist Frank Flanagan a TV star by setting him up with a variety show. But then Long is murdered in his private bathroom, stabbed in the back. The killer had to be someone who knew Long's meticulous habits. The plans for the TV show go forward and Ellery takes an inside look at the advertising industry to determine how the killer could have slipped in and out undetected.
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The adventure of the disappearing dagger (4 April 1976): An elderly amateur criminologist finally figures out how a five-year-old "locked-room" murder was committed, and is murdered by the killer before he can alert Inspector Queen. Ellery takes up the challenge himself. The criminologist had first implicated an airline pilot, because he was flying the plane where the murder was committed and had the opportunity to toss the murder weapon out the window. Nobody else seems to have been able to get rid of the weapon, but Ellery finds that the murder victim had stolen someone else's invention, and that the murderer may have invented the weapon as well.
Target Audience
TV rating: Not rated.
System Details
DVD.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Robbie, S., Hutton, J., Wayne, D., Allen, T., Dannay, F., Lee, M. B., Ameche, D., Andrews, D., Arden, E., Bean, O., Beery, N., Bikel, T., Bosley, T., Brooks, G., Brothers, J., Buono, V., Collins, J., Constantine, M., Dana, B., Defore, D., Dehner, J., Donahue, T., Duff, H. 1., Edelman, H., Francis, A., Furth, G., Galager, C., George, L. D., Godfrey, A., Granger, F., Harrington, P., Hasso, S., Hickman, D., Hillerman, J., Hunter, K., Hunter, T., Jaeckel, R., Kruschen, J., Lombardo, G., Lupino, I., Maharis, G., Markham, M., McDowall, R., McMahon, E., Merrill, D., Miles, V., Milland, R., Mineo, S., Muldaur, D., Mulhare, E., O'Connor, D., O'Neil, T., Parks, B., Price, V., Romero, C., Rush, B., Sargent, D., Sherman, B., Shigeta, J., Strasberg, S., Stockwell, D., Swofford, K., Tucker, F., Walston, R., White, B., Bernstein, E., Queen, E., Greene, D., Dubin, C., Pintoff, E., Hunt, P. H., Arnold, J., Sheldon, J., Doniger, W., Michaels, R., Abroms, E. M., Gábor, E., & Malone, D. (2010). Ellery Queen mysteries (Widescreen.). E1 Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seymour. Robbie et al.. 2010. Ellery Queen Mysteries. E1 Entertainment.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seymour. Robbie et al.. Ellery Queen Mysteries E1 Entertainment, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Robbie, Seymour., et al. Ellery Queen Mysteries Widescreen., E1 Entertainment, 2010.
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