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Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries (Syndicated) has had
no less than 520 one minute long  mysteries and were produced by Creative Marketing and Communications, Cincinnati, Ohio. Issued on a reel-to-reel format the made four boxes each containing about 130 episodes: 
            Set 1: November 1965 (episode 1-130)
            Set 2: April 1966 (episode 131-259)
            Set 3: September 1966 (episode 260-390)
            Set 4: February 1967 (episode 391-520)

In no particular order here's a list of 134 one minute long mysteries. Each episode opening with "Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries...This is Ellery Queen with the case I call the..." 
Owen played the role of Ellery.

 * not in our collection and therefore unconfirmed titles

Episodic log

  • 1 "Man Made Murder"
  • 2 "Singing Sheik"
  • 3 "Back Stage Robber"
  • 4 "Crossword Puzzle Murder"
  • 5 "Wheel of Fortune"
  • 6 "Simple Slip"
  • 7 "Kidnap Caper"
  • 8 "Counterfeit Politician"
  • 9 "Bathtub Murder"
  • 10 "Wrong Word" 
  • 11 "Whiskey Mystery"
  • 12 "Phoney Promoter"
  • 13 "Serious Gang-land Killing"
  • 14 "Tell-tale Heart"
  • 15 "Genuine Article"
  • 16 "Time Bomb"
  • 17 "Big Mistake"
  • 18 "Canned Music"
  • 19 "Lady Spectator"
  • 20 "Psychological Error"
  • 21 "Illegal Entry"
  • 22 "Deap Sea Murder"
  • 23 "Mysterious Ham"
  • 24 "Sunken Moment" 
  • 25 "Sour Note"
  • 26 "Disappearing Turk"
  • 27 "Deserted Island"
  • 28 "Twisted Cable"
  • 29 "Suspicious Sneeze"
  • 30 "Deadly Art Dealer"
  • 31 "Neatly Planned Robbery"
  • 32 "Curious Eves-dropper"
  • 33 "Amateur Suspect"
  • 34 "Sleepy-head Murder"
  • 35 "Wrong Way Robbers"
  • 36 "Dead Witness"
  • 37 "Well Swept Subject"
  • 38 "Know-it-all"
  • 39 "Two-sided Affair"
  • 40 "Wrong Way Door"
  • 41 "Seeing-eye Suspect"
  • 42 "Loud Mouth Nephew"
  • 43 "Printed Clue"
  • 44 "Wrong Robber"
  • 45 "Smallest Detail"
  • 46 "Slip at Sea"
  • 47 "Mysterious Contact"
  • 48 "Suspicious Prints"
  • 49 "Fancy Fugitive"
  • 50 "Firey Fraud"
  • 51 "Mysterious Make-up"
  • 52 "Melancholy Student"
  • 53 "Volunteer Suspect"
  • 54 "Distant Walk"
  • 55 "Race track Run-around"
  • 56 "Blackberry Killer"
  • 57 "Blundering Bodyguard"
  • 58 "Language Barrier"
  • 59 "Dial Tone Killer"
  • 60 "Confused Victim"
  • 61 "Overlooked Tick-Tock"
  • 62 "Man who wouldn't Return"
  • 63 "Freak Freeze"
  • 64 "Open Door Murder"
  • 65 "Switching Evidence"
  • 66 "Eerie Adventure"
  • 67 "Shatterproof Glass"
  • 68 "Historical Fate"
  • 69 "Questionable Constable"
  • 70 "Terrified Sister"
  • 71 "Gas Stove Murder"
  • 72 "Teeny Tiny Murder"
  • 73 "Geography Lesson"
  • 74 "Potato Murder"
  • 75 "Invisible Knife"
  • 76 "Over Trained Watchdog"
  • 77 "Killer in the Snow"
  • 78 "Radio Liar"
  • 79 "Tell-tale Reflex"
  • 80 "Trussed-up Mistake"
  • 81 "Unlucky Hunter"*
  • 82 "Unusual Scholar"*
  • 83 "Strange Jade Carvings"*
  • 84 "Eyewitness"*
  • 85 "Sundial Alibi"*
  • 86 "Singular Stradivarius"*
  • 87 "Gunfighters Gun"*
  • 88 "Illustrious Ancestor"*
  • 89 "Absent Reporter"*
  • 90 "Three Girlfriends"*
  • 91 "Bogus Strike"*
  • 92 "Musical Clue"*
  • 93 "Mummy's Rapping"*
  • 94 "Boxer's Fists"*
  • 95 "Expensive Guide"*
  • 96 "Polar Bear Meal"*
  • 97 "Highflying Saucer"*
  • 98 "Backward Door"*
  • 99 "Illogical Letters"*
  • 100 "Black Widows Web"*
  • 101 "Mistake of the Masquerade"*
  • 102 "Grim Joker"*
  • 103 "Tell-tale Arrow"*
  • 104 "Hard selling Zoologist"*
  • 105 "Brideless Groom"*
  • 106 "Missing Fingerprints"*
  • 107 "Locked Room"*
  • 108 "Silver Pound"*
  • 109 "Bargain Villain"*
  • 110 "Scottisch Kilt"*
  • 111 "Campless Campers"*
  • 112 "Stagecoach Letter"*
  • 113 "Fisherman's Fishstory"*
  • 114 "Unreligious Traveler"*
  • 115 "Executive Doodler"*
  • 116 "Sniper's Aim"*
  • 117 "Underground Artist"*
  • 118 "Southern Exposure"*
  • 119 "Acid Bath"*
  • 120 "Blind Spots"*
  • 121 "Rigorous Alibi"*
  • 122 "Tinker Tank"*
  • 123 "Curious Map"*
  • 124 "Tarnished Diamond"*
  • 125 "Dying Artist"*
  • 126 "Unnatural Alibi"*
  • 127 "Trigger-happy Naturalist"*
  • 128 "Bad Man's Bad Man"
  • 129 "Curious Gangland Killing"
  • 130 "Mysterious Murders"*
  • 131 "Rocking Chair Fraud"
  • 132 "Chinese Stamp Caper"
  • 133 "Tell-tale Desk"
  • 134 "Canned Heat"*
  • 135 "Well Dressed Killer"

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