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Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
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(Ellery Queen)
starring George Nader:
1* "The Glass Village"
9/26/58
Ellery pays a visit to a cousin who
is judge in a New England village. When
an elderly woman
painter is bludgeoned to death, the townsfolk are quick
to suspect a
tramp who was passing through the area. Against the whishes
of the judge and Ellery, a posse is formed to go after the
tramp.
The debut episode was propably the
best2* "The King is Dead"
10/03/58
scriptwriter Howard Rodman
Ellery and Inspector Queen are
approached by Abel Bendigo, a member of
the powerful Bendigo
Munitions Company family, when the life of his
brother King is
threatened.
3* "Ten Day's Wonder"
10/10/58
Howard Van Horn, a young
sculptor, asks Ellery to watch him during one
of his recurrent
attacks of amnesia. Van Horn is afraid that he is committing
crimes during his blackouts.
4* "The Door Between"
10/17/58
Karen Leith, born and raised in
Japan, comes to live on Washington
Square, where she lives
the life of a recluse, concentrating on writing her
novels.
The she meets an old friend, Dr.McClure, and soon they announce
their forthcoming marriage, which is opposed by the doctor's
daughter.
When Karen is found killed, Mc Clure's daughter is
accused.
5* "The Eighth Mrs.Bluebeard"
10/24/56
from novel by Hillary Waugh, scriptwriter
Mel Goldberg
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 believes that the man
has killed several
wifes for their insurance, and sends salesman Jack
Graham to bait a
trap for the killer.
6* "Cat of Many Tails"
10/31/58
The mayor of New York City calls on
Ellery to help solve a series of
strangulations for which
the police can find no motive but which they
believe to be the work
of one killer.
7* "Death before Bedtime"
11/07/58
from novel by Edgar Box (Gore Vidal)
Ellery accepts an invitation to visit
Senator Leander Rhodes, who plans to
run for president. But shortly
after Ellery's arrival, Rhodes is murdered
8* "Double, Double"
11/14/58
scriptwriter John Roeburt
Ellery receives in the mail a number of
newspaper
clippings relating a series
of supposedly
accidental deaths in a
small town where he once lived. Then
he is
visited by a young girl from the
same town who tells him that her
father has disappeared and asks for his
help.
9* "So Rich, so Lovely and so Dead"
11/28/58
from novel by Harold Q.Masur
Ellery investigates the murder of a wealthy
contess who was killed
shortly after appealing to him for help.
10* "The Diamond-Studded Typewriter"
12/05/58
from novel by Carlton
Keith
Alice Anthony asks
handwriting expert Jeff Green to help her prove that
the late James
Gavin is her father, who deserted her and her mother years
ago.
11* "Four and Twenty - to Live"
12/12/58
from novel by John Roeburt,
scriptwriter: Robert E. Thompson
Ellery is menaced by a girl
with a gun who wants him to phone the
governor and request a stay
of execution for her condemned father.
12* "Paint the Town Black"
12/19/58
from the novel by David
Alexander, scriptwriter S.S.Schweitzer
A friend gives a valuable small
statuette to Ellery for safekeeping. Soon
afterward, Ellery becomes
involved in international intrigue when he's
approached by
strangers who first offer to by the statuette and, when her
refuses,
attempt to steal it.
13* "The Hollow Man"
12/26/58
from novel by John
Roeburt, scriptwriter Howard Rodman
With Frank
Silvera (Sol), Whitney Blake (Nina), Murvyn Vye (Marco) ,
Wesley Lau (Max), John Goddard (Rocky), John Munroe (Aldo),
Russell Trent (Hobie), John Newton (Lt.Anders).
Ellery becomes involved
in the search for former welterweight
champion who's been
missing for five years.
14* "Bury me Deep"
01/02/59
from novel by Harold Q.Masur,
scriptwriter William Mourne
Ellery return unexpectedly to
his New York apartment and finds a beautiful
woman, apparently
drunk and making herself at home. Shortly, however,
the woman
dies, poisoned, and Ellery attemps to learn her identity and find
her murderer.
15* "The Jinn City Story"
01/09/59
from novel by John
Roeburt, scriptwriter Nicholas E. Baehr
With Brian Keith
Ellery's plane is forced
by heavy fog and bad weather to make an
emergency landing at a
smalltown airport. There Ellery is approached by a
strange
old man who asks him to help someone falsely accused
of murder.
16* "Heir to Revolution"
01/16/59
(original script) scriptwriter:
Robert E. Thompson
The U.S.governement asks Ellery
to travel to a South-east Asian
monarchy which is on the verge
of being taken over by communists. Ellery
is one of
the few people who can identify a young man who claims to be
the
rightful heir to the throne.
17* "The Murder of the Whistler's Brother"
01/23/59
from the novel by David
Alexander, scriptwriter Sheldon Stark
The director of an art museum
asks Ellery to recover a stolen Cezanne
painting within 24
hours so that it can be shown at an important exhibition.
18* "Death Likes it Hot"
01/30/59
from novel by Edgar Box (Gore
Vidal),
scriptwriter: Robert E. Thompson
with
Anna Lee, Kent Smith, Julie Bennett, Vivi Janis
A friend of Ellery's drowns in
tropical waters, but Ellery knew his friend to
be an expert swimmer
and suspects the death was murder.
19* "Margin of Terror"
02/13/59
from novel by William P.McGivern,
scriptwriter: Warner Law
During a speaking engagement in
Naples, "Papa George" Dimitrovitch, a
former Soviet
official who defected to the United States, is kidnapped by
Soviet
agents who intend to force him to return to Russia. Ellery
extends
his Italian vacation and tries to find Papa George.
20* "The Room Upstairs"
02/20/59
(aka "Chauffeur Disguise" starring Frankie Darro,
Joan Hackett ?)
from novel by Mildred
Davis, scriptwriter Don Ettlinger
With
Marion Seldes (Hilda), Judith Braun (Doris),
Dayton Lummis (Mr.Corwith), Dabbs Greer (Jake)
Ellery receives a call
for help from a friend, a small-town policeman who
suspects
that an auto accident involving the daughter of a prominent
citizen is connected with the finding of the unidentifiable body
of a young
girl in the river.
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