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Ellery Queen - Old Time Radio Shows

Here's a list of the Ellery Queen radio shows known to exist. If you are an OTR fanatic and want to contribute to this site please get in touch ...
Thanks to Joey Lindstrom (The Vaultkeeper), Martin Hunt, Walt Pattison Michael Simons and Tom Van der Voort for their unselfishness in sharing some of 'their' radioplays. Jay Hickerson estimates 18 half hour shows are available. He'd be right if we take in to account the public domain and didn't include the ones preserved in the Library of Congress. Add to that some previews and 1 full hour mystery to get to the following list of 26...
Perhaps we're wrong... after all even Ellery was fallible...
  The ones marked with a looking glass are not in my collection...

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The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Library of Congress Washington D.C. 

We'll start off with the list of programs preserved in the Library of Congress ... all of which are, dare I say it, not in my (or anyones) collection...

The Income Tax Robbery 03-12-42 or 06-14-42 (Cassette)
The Poet's Triangle  11-12-42 or 11-14-42 (Reel of first part)
The Dark Secret 06-08-44 or 06-10-44 (Reel)
              also as sneak-preview for Armed Forces Radio Services
The Blue Chip 06-15-44 or 06-17-44 (Reel)
The Corpse in Lower Five 06-22-44 or 06-24-44 (Reel)
The Devil's Head  06-29-44 or 07-01-44 (Reel)
The Egyptian Tomb  07-06-44 or 07-08-44 (Reel)
The Yang Piece 07-20-44 or 07-22-44 (Reel)
The Four Prisoners  07-27-44 or 07-29-44 (Reel)
The Man without a Heart   08-03-44 or 08-05-44 (Reel)
The Three Hands  08-10-44 or 08-12-44 (Reel)
The Booby Trap 11-09-44 or 11-11-44 (Cassette)
The Atomic Murder  08-03-47 (Reel)

Columbia University New York

The Dark Secret 06-08-44 or 06-10-44

Public Domain

The Great Microphone Mystery 10-05-39 or 02-29-40 aka
      The Case of the Mysterious Leap Year" The Columbia Workshop
The Invisible Clue  01-15-42 or 01-17-42
The World Series Crime 10-08-42 or 10-10-42
The Singing Rat  01-07-43 or 01-09-43
The Circus Train 03-25-43 or 03-27-43
The Vanishing Magician 11-04-43 or 11-06-43*  
The Bullet-Proof Man   1943 Office of War and
      Information (15 min)
The Mischief Maker  01-13-44 or 01-15-44
The Scarecrow and the Snowman  01-20-44 or 01-22-44
Dead Man's Cavern  (AFRS) 04-13-44 or 04-15-44
The Wounded Lieutenant 1944 Office of War and Information (15 min)
The Thief in the Dark 05-04-44 or 05-06-44
                                     Sneak-preview for Armed Forces Radio Services
The Foul Tip  07-13-44 or 07-15-44
The Diamond Fence  01-24-45 (30 minutes)
                                     Sneak-preview for Armed Forces Radio Services
Nick the Knife 08-01-45 (Mystery Playhouse AFRS)
The Message in Red 11-07-45
The Armchair Detective 03-27-46 and 3-18-48
The Adventure of the Fallen Angel
              for NBC's Molle Mystery Theater 06-14-46  (30 minutes)
The Man who could Vanish (Australia)   01-08-47 
The Green Gorillas 16" (30 minutes)
                                        Radio transcription disc 02-12-47.
The Specialist in Cops   03-19-47 (first 1/2 hour)
Nikki Porter, Killer aka Nikki Porter, Suspect 03-05-47
Number Thirty One 09-07-47
The Three Frogs  04-29-48
One Diamond  05-06-48
The Adventure of the Bad Boy NBC Ford Theatre 1-4-48 (1 hour)
Do not Disturb CBS The Campbell Playhouse 04-25-41 #78 
      (None of the 30 minutes Campbell episodes seem to have survived)

* = poor audioquality

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Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries

At least 520 episodes. (see list )

Other Queen related OTR Shows

11-21-38 Alias Jimmy Valentine
4-7-39 Author! Author!*
8-4-44 Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel: Ellery Queen 15' with Sydney Smith as EQ  
10-26-78 Whodunnit? 59' Produced by John Weber. In the National Public Radio program entitled Options. Reporter Wendy Blair explores how fact and fantasy are turned into mystery. She talks to publishers, booksellers, editors, readers, and writers of detective thrillers. Among those interviewed are Ross MacDonald and half of the Ellery Queen team, Frederic Dannay (Cassette preserved at Library of Congress.)

Other Queen related audioproducts

Interview with Ellery Queen and his biographer (Dr. Elliot L. Gilbert?)

Shadow episodes attributed to Ellery Queen (see list by William Nadel)

      Shyster Payoff 11-06-38
      Black Rock 11-13-38
      Murder in E Flat 12-04-38
Fountain of Death 11-27-38 not available for examination 
Murder by Rescue 12-11-38 not available for examination   
Give Us This Day 12-25-38 not available for examination
      Valley of the Living Dead 01-22-39
      The Ghost of Captain Bayloe 02-05-39
      Friend of Darkness 02-19-39
      Sabotage by Air 03-05-39
      Can the Dead Talk? 03-19-39 

* = poor audioquality

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