Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Ellery Queen, Classic American Television
Literary Critic Anthony Boucher famously wrote, "that Ellery Queen is the American detective story," and to that i would add, that Ellery Queen the 1975 series produced by Levinson and Link (Columbo, Murder She Wrote), Is classic mystery at its best! The series which showcases what must be re-
guarded as the definitive characterization of both Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton) and Inspector Richard Queen (David Wayne), sadly ran for just twenty-two episodes and a pilot. The episodes are well written and well acted, and for fans of the Queen stories there is a fine adaptation of "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party, a trip to Wrightsville, and even a trip to Hollywood in the Adventure of the Sinsister Scenario! (art imitating art there) The series is set in 1947, and in many ways harkens back to its successful network radio predecessor (the adventures of Ellery Queen), even one of that shows announcers, a certain Burt Parks, makes an appearace in The Adventure of Miss Aggies Farwell Performance!

Fans of the Queen novels and the radio series will also enjoy the challenge to the viewer. Near the end of each episode, Hutton will look into the camera and adress the audience, hinting at vital clues which hold the key to the mystery and challenging viewers to solve the puzzel.
Another delight to this series is the character of Simon Brimmer. Played by a pre-Higgins John Hillerman, Brimmer is a radio slueth who considers himself a genuine criminologist, and conseqeuntly involves himself in a number of Ellery`s cases. He is cultered, egotistical, and usually way off base in his conclusions.

Anyone who enjoys mystey would enjoy this well made series, and I certianly encourage Universal to consider a release. Here is a list of episode titles:

Too Many Suspects

01) The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne
02) The Adventure of the Lovers Leap
03) The Adventure of the Chinese Dog
04) The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader
05) The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express
06) The Adventure of Miss Aggie`s Farwell Permormance
07) The Adventure of Colonel Niven`s Memoirs
08) The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party
09) The Adventure of Veronica`s Veils
10) The Adventure of the Pharoah`s Curse
11) The Adventure of Blunt Instrument
12) The Adventure of the Black Falcon
13) The Adventure of the Sunday Punch
14) The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer
15) The Adventure of the Wary witness
16) The Adventure of the Judas Tree
17) The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario
18) The Advneture of the Two-Faced Woman
19) The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley
20) The Adventure of Caesar`s Last Sleep
21) The Adventure of the Hard Harted Huckster
22) The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger (finale)

TRUE?
If it is true that Universal Studios has no interest at all in ever releasing the Jim Hutton Ellery Queen series, then someone(s) have to shake them up!

An email campaign might do it, but it will probably take thousands of emails to do it, and they will have to come in within a relatively short time-frame---not over several years!

I would be willing to wager that just about ANYONE who has seen this series, while it only ran a single season, would believe it is certainly more worthy of release than at least HALF of the series that have been put on DVD already!

Who is with me???

The studio really needs to put out an official copy!!
I have seen the unofficial copy of this advertised on the internet for a long time. That version finally showed up at my local library. The version is watchable but I really want this series in a clean copy. Please Universal!! This series really deserved a longer run and I think all mystery fans would like to get their hands on a Studio issued set.