Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is an American television mystery series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC. It starred Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, and David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen. One of several television adaptations of the Ellery Queen mystery novels (see also The Adventures of Ellery Queen), the series was created by the writing and producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, who also created such mystery fare as Ma... more

Ellery Queen is an American television mystery series that ran for one season from 1975 to 1976 on NBC. It starred Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, and David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen. One of several television adaptations of the Ellery Queen mystery novels (see also The Adventures of Ellery Queen), the series was created by the writing and producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, who also created such mystery fare as Mannix, Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. The series premiered on March 23, 1975 with the made-for-TV movie Ellery Queen (also titled Too Many Suspects), adapted from the book The Fourth Side of the Triangle. A total of 22 episodes followed in the show's one and only season, the last of which aired April 4, 1976. Set in the post-WWII 1940s, the show closely followed the format of the Ellery Queen mystery novels which carefully laid out the clues before the reader/audience and invited them to attempt to solve the mystery before Ellery Queen... less