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Ellery Queen's first Ellery Queen mystery novel was The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)

The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) was the first Ellery Queen novel adapted to a feature film

The Mandarin Mystery (1936) was the second Ellery Queen novel adapted to a feature film

Ralph Bellamy and Margaret Lindsay in Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940), already citing a nod to the Radio production

Caption: Ellery Queen, famed fiction detective, examines clue held by Nikki, his comely secretary. From their expressions it appears the mystery has been solved.

Caption: Ellery Queen, famed fiction detective, examines clue held by Nikki, his comely secretary. From their expressions it appears the mystery has been solved.

Hugh Marlowe and Marion Shockley reenact a scene from The Scorpion's Thumb from December 31st 1939.

Hugh Marlowe and Marion Shockley as Ellery Queen and Nikki Porter

The Gulf Oil Company was The Adventures of Ellery Queen's first commercial sponsor

Bromo-Seltzer spot ad for Ellery Queen from 42-04-09 over KPO

Bromo-Seltzer spot ad for Ellery Queen from 42-04-09 over KPO

Bromo-Seltzer sponsored the first NBC run of The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Anacin spot ad for Ellery Queen over WBBM (Chicago) from January 31 1945

Anacin spot ad for Ellery Queen over KQW (San Jose) from February 7 1945

The Faces of Ellery Queen:

'Money for Murder' article from the 43-02-20 Billboard article

KWRN Spot ad for Ellery Queen over ABC from 48-04-01

The Adventures of Ellery Queen moved to ABC for its final run from 1947-forward as an entirely West Coast production

Lee Bowman featured in a Phillies Cigar ad promoting 1952's The Adventures of Ellery Queen over ABC-TV

Hugh Marlowe returned to the role of Ellery Queen with 1954's The Adventures of Ellery Queen on Television then transitioning to Mystery Is My Business in 1957

The Billboard 57-03-30: The Adventures of Ellery Queen over Television was forced to change the name of the canon to Mystery Is My Business owing to the expiration of the production's rights to the original title

November 1958 spot ad for The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen in an hour-long format for NBC Television

Background

The nom de plume 'Ellery Queen' belonged to David Nathan [Frederic Dannay] and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky [Manfred Bennington Lee], two young cousins from Brooklyn, New York who, during late 1920s forward, embarked on a fiction writing career spanning over 40 years together. Also collaborating under the pen name 'Barnaby Ross,' the duo launched four novels with detective, 'Drury Lane,' as their protagonist. But its their remarkable Ellery Queen franchise that most captured the imagination of loyal detective fiction fans of the era.

The pair authored their first Ellery Queen mystery novel, The Roman Hat Mystery, in 1929. They collaborated on twenty-five other Ellery Queen novels and novellas between 1930 and 1958. With each new novel, Ellery Queen's fans increased almost exponentially. Ellery Queen's popularity caught the attention of the Film Industry beginning with an adaptation of their ninth novel, The Spanish Cape Mystery, for Republic Pictures in 1935. The Spanish Cape Mystery starred Donald Cook as Ellery Queen and Guy Usher as Inspector Queen. Thereafter, the Ellery Queen franchise resulted in eight more Ellery Queen films of the era:

1936 The Mandarin Mystery [with Eddie Quillan]
1940 Ellery Queen, Master Detective [with Ralph Bellamy]
1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery [with Ralph Bellamy]
1941 Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime [with Ralph Bellamy]
1941 Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring [with Ralph Bellamy]
1942 A Close Call for Ellery Queen [with William Gargan]
1942 A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen [with William Gargan]
1942 Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen [with William Gargan]

The first two Ellery Queen films were as much slapstick as detective mystery. 1936's The Mandarin Mystery was adapted from Ellery Queen's eighth novel, The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934). The 'Nikki Porter' character first entered the Film canon with 1940's Ellery Queen, Master Detective, starring Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen and Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter. The Ellery Queen films starring Ralph Bellamy, and then William Gargan, took on more of the flavor of the popular 'female sidekick' detective films of the era--more so in the Ralph Bellamy vehicles, less so in the William Gargan vehicles.

As the Ellery Queen franchise continued to grow even more popular, it understandably caught the attention of both Radio and Television networks as well.

An Era of Mystery Quizzes over Radio

Mystery dramas were highly popular air fare throughout the Golden Age of Radio. Literally hundreds of mystery programs of one form or another filled the airwaves from morning to night. The great appeal of such mystery dramas was figuring them out--preferably well before the actual dénouement, or at the least by the time all the clues were provided.

Nudging audience involvement one step further, some of the more clever mystery programs of the era either encouraged the listening audiences to participate in solving the mystery or crime of the evening or had their listening audiences compete with members of the in-studio audiences to solve the mystery or crime.

Some of the more popular and compelling audience participation mystery or crime programs of the era were:

1937 Phyl Coe Radio Mysteries
1938 Night Cap Yarns
1939 Armchair Adventures
1939 The Adventures of Ellery Queen
1940 What Would You Have Done?
1941 Who–Dun–It?
1943 Let’s Play Reporter
1944 Kelly’s Courthouse
1944 Quick as a Flash
1944 Stop That Villain!
1945 Calling All Detectives
1945 Detect and Collect
1945 Murder Will Out!
1965 Ellery Queen Minute Mysteries

While only a representative sampling, the above exemplars provide a cross section of the type of programming that captured the imagination of armchair sleuths of the era--both at home and in the studio. It's easy to understand why so many of these programs were popular. Everyone listening to a radio mystery gets caught up to one degree or another with the details of the unfolding mystery or crime. And to one degree or another, most listeners formed quite well-supported theories regarding the unraveling of such mysteries by the actual point of dénouement. If the listeners felt the solution or resolution was presented fairly, then whether or not they actually solved it themselves, they didn't feel in any way cheated by the actual resolution. And of course that was the fine line all mystery script writers were tasked with throughout the era, whether the program was specifically targeted to audience participation or not.

Audience participation mystery programs of the era also lent themselves to a degree of audience manipulation. The natural temptation by sponsors or networks to milk a particularly popular audience participation mystery vehicle often led to gambits such as providing the resolution of the night's mystery the following night--or week, depending on its scheduling. This was a way to ensure that listeners felt compelled to return to hear the next installment. If that proved too intrusive or manipulative, sponsors would tie prizes, premiums, or awards of one type or another to the successful solution to a particular program episode or series of episodes. Juvenile mystery programs of the era often proved a great success employing such tactics.

Mystery quiz programs provided almost all of the elements of a successful audience participation mystery format. Listeners had the option of solving the mystery themselves or seeing if they could beat the 'official' quiz participants at solving the night's mystery. In some instances, they might even find themselves competing against both quiz contestants selected from the studio's audience and/or Radio and Film actors or other prominent luminaries of the era.

Both types of audience participation mystery programs were also depicted in mystery films of the era. Whether an extension of a popular series of mystery books or emulating one or more of the popular mystery quiz programs over Radio, such films provided the same level of audience satisfaction in providing a means to compete for the most accurate resolution of the underlying crime or mystery.

Needless to say, such audience participation dramas, whether over Radio or in Film succeeded or failed based on the integrity of the trail of clues presented to their respective audiences right up until the dénouement itself.

CBS Radio introduces Ellery Queen to America's armchair detectives

The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) was the first Radio network to bring Ellery Queen to a Radio audience on a recurring basis. Though still clouded in secrecy as to the true identities of either/both the creator, Ellery Queen or the actor portraying Ellery Queen, both details remaind shrouded in secrecy until the last episodes of that first CBS run of sixty-seven, CBS-produced mystery quizzes. That first series premiered in an hour-long format on the Sunday evening of June 18, 1939.

From the June 17, 1939 edition of the Mason City Globe-Gazette:

Best-Seller Mysteries on
KGLO Sunday Nights

Listeners Invited to Help
Solve Baffling Crime Hits

Adventure Series to Be Heard Via CBS
From 6 to 7 O'Clock Weekly

Armchair detectives who have been trying for 10 years to beat best-seller Ellery Queen in the solution of more than a score of baffling fictional mysteries, will come into their own Sunday.

Beginning on that date and each Sunday thereafter, "The Adventures of Ellery Queen," presenting in action the gentleman detective and Nikki, his secretary-assistant, will join Columbia networks parade of feature programs.

On Air From 6 to 7 P.M.

KGLO will carry the new network mystery from 6 to 7 o'clock Sunday evening. The P.G. and E. News of the Nation program, regularly heard at 6 p.m., will be heard at 5:45 on this day only and Jim Woods' Tydol-Veedol Sports Camera will be heard at 7 p.m. on Sunday, 45 minutes later than usual.

Four armchair detectives will be invited each week to participate in the studio solution.

Queen's first CBS assignment will involve "The Gum-Chewing Millionaire," according to George Zachary, producing and directing the series of which he is the originator.

Offer Personal Solutions

In explanation of the program format, Zachary said, "After the guests are introduced, the mystery gets under way. As soon as Queen knows who the murderer is, he halts dramatic action and invites each armchair detective in the studio to reveal a personal solution of the crime. When all opinions are expressed, the drama is resumed--and the correct solution played off."

By intermission, Zachary points out, the audience as well as studio guests possess all clues and information necessary to the mystery's solution. If a clue is not followed in the drama, he warns listeners not to follow that clue in their own minds.

There can be but one solution to each adventure. That solution is based neither on guesswork nor on motive, but logic. Anyone can hazard a guess as to the criminal. That is not enough. By elimination anyone can pin a motive on a suspect.

Samuel S. Leibowitz, famous criminal lawyer, listed five basic motives for murder. They may be jealousy, greed--which includes envy, revenge, love, which prompts mercy-slayings, and adventure, in which human beings kill merely for a new thrill, a case in point being that of Loeb and Leopold.

Therefore, says Zachary, there is not merit in selecting the criminal by motive. To obtain a criminal's conviction, the detective must base his accusation on factual evidence.

Characters Named

Permanent characters of the new CBS mystery series include Ellery Queen and Nikki Porter, Santos Ortego playing Inspector Richard Queen, head of New York homicide squad and father of the gentleman detective; Howard Smith as Sergeant Velie, and Arthur Allen as Dr. Samuel Prouty, assistant medical examiner of New York county.

Ellery Queen, during the past decade has solved such fictional cases as "The Roman Hat Mystery," "The French Powder Mystery," "The Dutch Shoe Mystery," "The Greek Coffin Mystery," "The Chinese Orange Mystery" and "The Spanish Cape Mystery."

The CBS-produced 1939-1940 run starred Hugh Marlowe as Ellery Queen, Marian Shockley as Nikki Porter, Santos Ortega as Ellery's father, Inspector Queen, and first Howard Smith, then gravel-voiced Ted De Corsia as Detective Sergeant Velie. Note also that it was the Radio Adventures of Ellery Queen that inspired the characters of 'Nikki Porter' and 'Detective Sergeant Velie,' both characters finding their way into the Ellery Queen films that succeeded the Radio program from that point forward.

Originated, produced and directed by George Zachary, the format of the hour-long mystery quiz retained essentially the same format over the following nine years of its respective runs, varying only in program length and number of 'armchair detectives':

The announcer would introduce the program and/or sponsor messages
The guest 'armchair detectives' would be introduced and the title of the night's mystery would be given.
The dramatized mystery would be presented to its conclusion.
The armchair detective(s) would make their case for the mystery's solution.
Ellery Queen would announce the actual resolution.
The announcer and Ellery Queen would provide the closing sponsor message, tease and announce the title of the next week's mystery, and close with the credits.

Inaugurated in an hour-long format with a panel of at least four guest armchair detectives, the CBS series was shortened to an half-hour format beginning with Episode No. 37, The Adventure of the Old Soldiers, of February 25th, 1940. The series retained the half-hour format over all of the remaining Radio broadcasts for the following eight years. The half-hour format necessarily reduced most succeeding mystery quizzes to either one or two armchair detectives. Later productions even experimented with talking to their guest armchair detectives via long-distance telephone

The introduction of celebrity guest armchair detectives into the mystery quiz format was an obviously brilliant production strategy. On the one hand, it added another dimension of cache to the series'. On the other, it virtually guaranteed an continuing stream of 'ink' regarding the broadcasts in the trades papers and newspapers of the era. As a consequence of that unprecedented publicity, this is one of the few long-running Radio series' of the era to provide an almost complete record of either titles, synopses, or guest celebrities in the Radio listings columns of most of the newspapers.

Throughout the course of the series an estimated 750+ celebrity armchair guests--great and small--contributed to the growing popularity of the Radio franchise. As the series' grew more popular over the years, the demands by aspiring guest detectives grew so great that the guests' agents were standing in line to get their clients on the program. Witness this excerpt from the December 19, 1942 edition of The Billboard magazine:

. . . In some cases an agent's entire list of performers eventually ask to get on "prestige" shows like Information, Please as guest experts, on Ellery Queen as guest armchair detectives, on Battle of the Sexes as guest stooges, on Take It or Leave It as guest ringers. They'll be a guest on anything as long as it's before a mike. It's getting so that the shows themselves are becoming tougher and tougher to crash because many name-guests experts have turned out to be just guest dopes.

George Zachary was, among his myriad other production talents, a brilliant publicist for the series. As indicated in the sidebar (left), photo teasers arrived in abundance throughout the initial CBS launch of the series. But again, even though actress Marian Shockley (Nikki Porter) was prominently identified during the first two years of promoting the series, Hugh Marlowe, though clearly visible in the photo promotions for the campaign, remained cleverly unidentified as the voice of Ellery Queen. That gambit continued for the remainder of the various runs of the canon irrespective of the network or sponsor.

That quite intentional ambiguity regarding both the name of the two original authors of the franchise and the five actors who portrayed their sleuth on air continued to contribute to the mystery and mystique of the series throughout the canon. As indicated above, the true identity of Hugh Marlowe as Ellery Queen was only disclosed after the initial CBS run had all but ended, while Marian Shockley as Nikki, Santos Ortega as Inspector Queen and Ted De Corsia as Sergeant Velie were regularly promoted throughout the CBS run. The subsequent 'Ellery Queens'--Carleton Young, Sydney Smith, Larry Dobkin and Howard Culver--suffered the same quite deliberate slight throughout all subsequent broadcasts of the canon. The gambit was, in all likelihood, by way of offering both sponsors and audience a monolithic 'image' of Ellery Queen as both the author/originator of the various series' as well as the protagonist in virtually all of the Adventures of Ellery Queen mystery-quiz broadcasts.

By the time the National Broacasting Company (NBC) took over the series, a great number of "spine chillers, homicidery, and bloody epics" had emerged to promote the food and drugs of the era, as observed by the following article by Marion Radcliffe, "Walk Into My Parlor" from the February 20, 1943 edition of The Billboard:

The Billboard Nerve-Wracking Nineteen from 43-02-20

NEW YORK, Feb. 13,--It takes a total of 19 network shows a week, comprising 9 1/2 hours of air time, to chill the spine of the nation, with 13 sponsors taking advantage of the listeners' state of helpless horror to try to sell them 10 different kinds of food and drugs, two brands of tobacco and one brand of coal. The nerve-racking 19 run the gamut from the cops-and-robbers roughhouse of Gang Busters and Bulldog Drummond to the sophisticated sleuthing of Thin Man and the subtle terror of Inner Sanctum and Lights Out. The cowboy-and-Indian, cops-and-robbers dramas, which have been making kids and grownups alike shriek and shiver since almost the beginnings of radio, are slanted toward the war now, keeping Green Hornet and The Shadow pretty busy tracking down vicious Nazi spies and saboteurs. Counter-Spy, which debuted over CBS in May, 1942, devotes itself entirely to the adventures in espionage of an American secret agent. Almost all the mystery shows inject the war angle into their scripts, with black markets, for instance, serving as a subject for investigation on recent programs of both Mr. District Attorney and Crime Doctor. OWI propaganda about loose talk sinking ships was dramatized on a recent Ellery Queen show, and the latest Inner Sanctum drama was turned over to the Treasury Department's War Bond Drive.

Theory that war increases listening to escape programs has been taken seriously by the networks, three of which have lately added mystery thrillers to their list of sustaining shows. New this season on Mutual are Dark Destiny, presenting tales of the supernatural, and Murder Clinic, which dramatizes adventures of famous fiction detectives. Both originate from WOR and go out to the full network. Suspense, a detective thriller, started on the Columbia network in June, 1942. Blue Network within the past month has been scaring its listeners with Horror, Inc., which bowed in on January 17 with Eva Le Gallienne reading a different blood-curdling tidbit each week; The Strange Dr. Karnac, which finds the gentleman of the title in a sinister episode each week involving black magic, began haunting the Blue January 23.

Altho many mystery programs use guest stars, 11 of them maintain the same radio actors for the leading roles each week. Don McLaughlin plays the FBI agent in Counter-Spy; Carlton Young, Marion Shockley, Santos Ortega and Ted de Corsia are regularly cast in Ellery Queen; Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost are Mr. and Mrs. North, and Jay Jostyn, Len Doyle and Vicki Vola take the lead roles in Mr. District Attorney. Claudia Morgan and Lester Damon play Nora and Nick in the Thin Man; Everett Sloan has the part of Dr. Benjamin Ordway in Crime Doctor, and Bennett Kilpack is Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. Bill Johnstone and Marjorie Anderson star in The Shadow, and Alan Hewitt had the lead in Bulldog Drummond until his induction into the army. Mystery shows use on an average of from five to eight actors.

The question of who gets more exhausted from mystery and horror shows on the air--listeners, actors, producers or sound effects men--is one that has recently come up for consideration. It is claimed by some students of the subject that listeners "enjoy" trembling, sweating and fainting as a result of weird things they hear on the air, because after it is all over they get a wonderful feeling of relief at finding themselves safely sheltered in a warm, dry living room and not swimming in rat-infested sewers or trapped in a cemetery vault with 10 ghosts. While the listener turns to horror and mystery programs for release, it has been reported that the actors are affected by their own macabre characterizations to the extent of losing weight, voices and nerve.

Not only are the sound effects men, who open and close the special creaking door on Inner Sanctum, clang the giant gong on Lights Out and simulate the footsteps and other eerie sounds indispensable on mystery shows, but organs and--on the higher-priced shows--orchestras are a must. Fred Fradkin's orchestra augments the ghastly activities on Thin Man; Bernard Herrmann directs the ork on Suspense; Peter Van Steeden's band livens things up on Mr. District Attorney; Frank Novak's band offers the musical interludes on Mr. and Mrs. North, and Ray Bloch is heard on Crime Doctor. Organists like Charles Paul on Ellery, Lew White on Sanctum, Bob Hamilton on Counter-Spy, and Rosa Rio on Horror, Inc., play a large part in creating the moods, goose pimples and chandelier climbing on the killer-chillers.

While many of the shows are the brain-children of modern script writers, old masters of the sinister and the supernatural are leaned on heavily. Murder Clinic dramatizes well-known detective stories; Bulldog Drummond borrows its material from H.C. McNeil's famous stories; Horror, Inc., digs down to find the bleakest and most violent bits that have been written; Thin Man is based on the Dashiell Hammett character of literature and films, and Mr. and Mrs. North uses the characters created by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lockridge in their Broadway play and in short stories. Famous Jury Trials, Gang Busters, and Crime Doctor are credited with being based on actual case histories of criminals and trials.

Tuesday night sends the most mystery shows into American homes, with five of them scheduled, while the peace and quiet of Sunday is broken into by four murder epics. at 8:30 to 9 p.m. is the most popular scaring hour, with five bloody opuses coming at this time. Ruthrauff & Ryan leads the agencies in this type of show, producing The Shadow, Ellery Queen and Lights Out, with Lee Cooley supervising the three. Phillips H. Lord, Inc., which has been arranging Gang Busters for eight years is also producer of Counter-Spy. Himan Brown, independent producer, does Inner Sanctum, Thin Man and Bulldog Drummond.

(Copyright The Billboard Magazine)

There's a great deal to glean from the above article. Of note is one of the rare mentions of the star of an Ellery Queen series--in this instance, Carleton Young. But even more importantly, one can almost immediately grasp the growing tide of what critics began referring to as 'blood and guts' programming. The growing displeasure over the amount of violent or graphic programming of the era eventually resulted in the short-lived National Association of Broadcasters' (NAB) 'curfews' of the mid-1940s. Those curfews--when honored by the networks--self-imposed a voluntary, post-9:30 p.m. curfew on violent or graphic programming across America. Though it's unlikely that these curfews were welcomed by the greater majority of Radio audiences of the era, the Radio critics, politicians, religious groups, local Chambers of Commerce and Networks of the era seemed to put great store in the deleterious effects of spine-chiller, crime, shoot-em-up, and detective mysteries of the era. Indeed, by the 1942 NBC run of The Adventures of Ellery Queen, even the mystery-quiz format of Ellery Queen was moved to the post-curfew timeslot of 9:30 p.m.

The NBC run of The Adventures of Ellery Queen was apparently a victim of its own success for its sponsor, Emerson Drug and its 'Bromo-Seltzer' product. As the popularity of the mystery quiz began to soar, Emerson Drug's ad agency determined that the series had reached a point that its popularity was driving up production costs for the series. Emerson Drug jumped ship from the series during November 1945, moving its sponsorship to The Saint over NBC. As indicated in the sidebar article (left), 'Murder for Money,' it was then estimated that the production costs for each half-hour of The Adventures of Ellery Queen were approximately $3,000 per segment, and rising. Emerson Drug felt it could hold the lesser known The Saint series to around $2,o00 per segment--until it as well grew in popularity equal to The Adventures of Ellery Queen.

This was not uncommon. Emerson Drug sponsored several long-running programs of the era. Its Bromo-Seltzer brand was already well established. Its primary business motivation in continuing to promote the brand over Radio was at the stage of brand maintenance against the encroachments of other similar products also advertising over Radio (Tums, Pepto-Bismol, etc). Sponsors or their ad agencies would often abandon an otherwise successful and popular program once any additional, incremental benefit of continuing to sponsor the program was becoming erased by the increasing production costs of the program.

When the series moved back to CBS, Anacin picked up the tab for the production, keeping most other elements of the format essentially unchanged. Anacin, while an already established pain reliever, found itself in a highly competitive market segment during the mid to late 1940s. Anacin continued sponsoring The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the entire 1945 to 1947 run over CBS, and the short-lived NBC series of 1947.

The production ultimately moved to ABC and its KECA studios in Hollywood beginning November 27, 1947. Airing sustained by the network, the ABC series ran nationwide for another twenty-seven episodes until May 27, 1948, at which point The Adventures of Ellery Queen left Radio airwaves for good. The concept however, was carried on by other Radio and Television productions.

But that wasn't the end of the Ellery Queen franchise. Three attempts to popularize Ellery Queen mysteries over Television met with mixed success over the ensuing eleven years:

1951 The Adventures of Ellery Queen [ABC and DuMont for Kaiser-Frazier and Phillies Cigars]
1954 Mystery Is My Business
1959 The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen [NBC]

ABC Television scheduled a kinescope audition for a proposed Ellery Queen series in February 1950

ABC-TV began kinescoping The Adventures of Ellery Queen in April of 1950

The Ellery Queen Television canons of the 1950s were straight dramatic mystery presentations, having dispensed with the mystery-quiz format altogether. The Adventures of Ellery Queen traversed Television for both DuMont and ABC, eventually airing as Mystery Is My Business by 1957, once the license to use the name "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" had lapsed. For the first five years of the Television series' the productions managed a respectable 10% share.

This was even more remarkable for the early 1950s given the rapidly changing coaxial technologies still being implemented in cities large and small across North America. Some broadcasts were aired via kinescope over one network, while airing live or from film on a competing network. First generation kinescopes, over even the best coaxial infrastructure of the era, were still no equal to either first generation filmed productions or live productions over the better transmission systems. But Television was still such a novelty during 1950 to 1952 that viewing audiences remained remarkably forgiving. Understandably, the programs' sponsors and ad agencies weren't nearly as forgiving. Hence, it was possible for the exact same program airing in the same market, but over two different networks to garner wildly varying viewer shares--owing primarily to the means of transmission. Such were the problems encountered between the DuMont network and the ABC-TV network during their respective runs of The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Had transmissions been more uniform, Television's The Adventures of Ellery Queen might have done even better.

Unfortunately, the longer it aired over Television, the further it drifted from its tried and true formula--and characters. 1958's The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (NBC) was, by all contemporary critical accounts a stinker of an hour-long, live Ellery Queen vehicle in either full color or black-and-white. George Nader as Ellery Queen was too slick by half and all but indistinguishable from the original Ellery Queen characters previously developed in Print, Film and Radio. Nader was still a remarkably gifted and versatile actor, but the scripts and concept for The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen were simply 'Further' in all the wrong ways--too slick, too hip, too gory, too everything.

In the final analysis, each succeeding attempt to increase the longevity of the Television franchise of Ellery Queen seemed to result in productions even more of an aberration of the original Ellery Queen characters than before. The Golden Age of Television franchise of Ellery Queen ultimately jumped the shark in 1959. It wasn't until the highly successful Ellery Queen Mysteries of 1976, starring Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, that the franchise rediscovered its roots.

Ellery Queen Mysteries aired as a full hour-long production, interspersing the plot with several expositional, in-character breaks by Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen--or David Wayne, as Inspector Queen, while teasing plot points and possible clues to the viewing audience. The novel approach alerted the viewing audience to clues it may have overlooked during the course of the usually very clever script(s). Set in the late 1940s to 1950s, in yet another nod to the original Radio programs John Hillerman, as Simon Brimmer, a fictional, gentleman crime detective of the 'era,' hosted his own Radio program during several episodes in much the same vein as the original Adventures of Ellery Queen Radio broadcasts. 'Simon Brimmer' would often broadcast an ongoing mystery investigation over his Radio program, attempting to one-up Ellery Queen and Inspector Queen as they attempted to solve the same mystery or crime.

There's a certain symmetry to the Ellery Queen franchise having come full circle at last. Ellery Queen Mysteries wasn't a mystery-quiz with on screen participants per se, but the producers of Ellery Queen Mysteries had wisely managed to reconnect with the very element that had so popularized Ellery Queen over Radio for ten years--teasing the clues and giving the listening, and then viewing, audiences a chance to participate equally. That will remain Jim Hutton's legacy now, and his tip o' the hat to the legacy of Ellery Queen.

But then fast forward twenty-five years and Jim Hutton's Oscar-winning son, Tim Hutton, repeats a tip o' the hat to Nero Wolfe--this time with Hutton's own award-winning production, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002). And in the steps of his father, Tim Hutton creates yet another fine send up to a classic detective fiction icon. They say the branch doesn't fall far from the tree. Jim Hutton clearly passed on his respect for a tried and true formula to his son. That's an even more poignant--and satisfying--symmetry.

Series Derivatives:

Australian Syndication; AFRS Mystery Playhouse

Genre:

Anthology of Golden Age Radio Mystery Quiz Dramas

Network(s):

CBS; NBC; The AFRS; ABC

Audition Date(s) and Title(s):

None

Premiere Date(s) and Title(s):

39-06-18 01 The Adventure of The Gum-Chewing Millionaire

42-01-08 01 The Adventure Of the Song Of Death

45-01-24 01 The Adventure of the Diamond Fence

47-06-01 01 The Case of the Green Gorillas

47-11-27 01 The Saga of Ruffy Rux

Run Dates(s)/ Time(s):

39-06-18 to 40-09-22; CBS; Sixty-seven, programs (36 hour-long programs and 31 half-hour programs); Sunday evenings

42-01-08 to 44-12-30; NBC; One Hundred Forty-three, 30-minute programs (from West and East coasts, each); Thursday (West) or Saturday (East) evenings

45-01-24 to 47-04-16; CBS; One Hundred Ten, 30-minute programs; Wednesday evenings

46-10-09 to 47-09-21; NBC; Ten, 30-minute programs; Sunday afternoons

47-11-27 to 48-05-27; ABC; Twenty-seven, 30-minute programs: Thursday evenings

Syndication:

CBS; Compton; NBC; Ellery Queen, Incorporated; ABC; The AFRS; Grace Gibson

Sponsors:

Gulf Oil; Emerson Drug [Bromo-Seltzer]; Whitehall Pharmacal [Anacin]

Director(s):

Manfred B. Lee [Creator]
George Zachary [Originator, producer and director]
Bob Steel, Tom Victor, Dwight Hauser, Bruce Kamman, Dick Woollen [Producer/Directors]
Knowles Entriksen [Director]

Principal Appearances:

Actors:
Hugh Marlowe, Marian Shockley, Howard Smith, Ted De Corsia, Santos Ortega, Arthur Allen, Carleton Young, Sydney Smith, Ken Sears, Helen Lewis, Barbara Terrell, Gertrude Warner, Raymond Edward Johnson, Charlotte Keane, Richard Coogan, Ed Latimer, Bill Smith, Larry Dobkin, Ted Osborne, Kaye Brinker, Herb Butterfield, Alan Reed, Howard Culver, Joan Banks, Bill Bouchey, Rolfe Sedan, Wilms Herbert, Eric Snowden, George Matthews, Fay McKenzie, Don Hancock, Mason Adams, Virginia Gregg, Joseph Kearns, Maxine Marx, Edward Marr, Eleanor Audley, John McIntyre, Myra Marsh, Stacy Harris, Paul Frees, Georgia Ellis, Earl Lee, William Conrad, Luis Van Rooten, Charles McGraw, Tony Barrett, John Brown, Jeff Chandler, Lurene Tuttle, Ralph Moody, Jack Petruzzi, Peter Leeds, Harold Dryanforth, Roy Candy, James Edwards, Roy Glenn, Frankie Lynn, Edith Wilson, Tom Collins, Fay Baker, Gene Leonard, Anne Stone, Rye Billsbury, Ed Max, Buddy Gray, Georgia Backus, William Johnstone, Charles Seel, Anne Morrison, Jay Novello, Betty Lou Gerson, Jack Webb, Frank Lovejoy, Robert Griffin, Bob Lewis, Frances Chaney, Sidney Miller, Lou Merrill

Guest Armchair Detectives:
Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, Gelett Burgess, Deems Taylor, Ed Gardner, Lillian Hellman, Herman Shumlin, Betty Garde, Johnny Green, Carol Bruce, Jack Berlind, Lucille Manners, Frank Forest, Gilda Gray, Joe Howard, Mayor Edward J. Kelly, Alice Marble, Jerry Lester, Sally Rand, Barry Wood, Betty Bruce, Herb Shriner, John Shuttleworth, Madge Evans, Frank Forest, Norman Tokar, Virginia Field, James Montgomery Flagg, Paula Stone, Joe Howard, Paul Valalle, Ralph Edwards, Rajah Raboid, Jan Kiepura, Spike Jones, Julie Stevens, Dick Coogan, "Senator" Ford, Harry Hershfield, Joe Laurie Jr., Ed Pawley, Marry Little, Nadine Conner, Mayor Clarence V. Mooney, Seaman First Class Elizabeth Wright, Pharmacist Mate First Class Harry Goldman, Jack Dempsey, Boatswain's Mate First Class John C. Cullen, Jack McManus, Joan Brooks, Peter Cusack, Basil O'Connor, Lucille Petry, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Christie, Edith Head, Jackie Tucker, Ben Grauer, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., Benay Venuta, Helen Menken, Eddie Dowling, Helen Hayes, Lindsay MacHarrie, Irene Boudoni, Stan Lomax, Connee Boswell, Xavier Cugat, Sammy Schulman, John Chapman, Marjorie Lawrence, Milton Cross, Dale Carnegie, Ted Fio Rito, George McManus, Peggy Fears, Mrs Inez Gerhard, Clayton Rawson, Robert Watson, Martin Kosleck, Alexander Pope, John J. Anthony, Rosemarie Lombardo, James McGurrin, John "String" Brice, Edwin S. Friendly, Vincent Lopez, Carol Thurston, Mrs Geraldine Greentree, Roland Young, Royal Arch Gunnison, Hildegarde, Michael Whalen, Col. John Stilwell, Claudia Morgan, Jane Cowl, Maj. George Fielding Eliot, Bill Stern, John Edwards, Fred Waring, West Peterson, Annamary Dickey, Victor E. Chenea, Lt. Eileen Mallon, Armand Denis, Vaughn Monroe, Sophie Kerr, Ken Roberts, Red Barber, Fannie Hurst, Reuben Mamoulian, Ilka Chase, Frank Graham, Harriet Van Horne, Luise Ranier, Janet Blair, George Givol, Dean F. Willey, Howard Blakeslee, Ted Husing, Tim Cohane, H.W. (Tex) Toden, Dick Powell, Edarl Wilson, Milo Boulton, Jane Wyatt, F. Beverley Kelley, Anne Fromer, Monroe Wheeler, Orlo Robertson, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Jack Gaver, Ted R. Gamble, Gladys Swarthout, Col. Joseph S. Snyder, Bennett Cerf, George Lait, Wendy Barrie, Fred Uttal, Julie Gibson, Gertrude Niesen, Evelyn Keyes, Capt. Charles S. Vaughn, Evelyn Wyckoff, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Virginia MacWatters, Shep Fields, George V. Denny Jr., Jan Clayton, CDR Henry H. Hale, Edward Everett Horton, Victor Jory, Alice Frost, Joseph Curtin, Eleanor Steber, Maj Gen Emmanuel E. Lombard, Ralph Morgan, Saul Pett, Arthur Godfrey, Morgan Conway, James L. Cox, Marjorie Rambeau, Belita, Willie Mosconi, Craig Rice, Alfred Eichler, Betty Forsling, Orson Welles, Con Colleano, Carolyn Rolland, James Markham, Joan Edwards, Vernon Pope, Lucille Ball, Francis Lederer, Dorothy Dunn, John Reed King, Elsa Miranda, Dolores Morgan, Wallace C. Siple, Alan Baxter, Ben Hecht, Ray Bolger, Milton Berle, Parks Johnson, Warren Hull, Marsha Hunt, John C arradine, Rear Adm H.B. Miller, Alfred Drake, Bela Lugosi, June Knight, Tom Torsey, Judith Evelyn, Karl Swenson, Henry Morgan, Erskine Johnson, Buddy Rogers, Edith Gwynn, Virginia MacPherson, Joan Barton, Howard Barlow, Ann Corio, Alfred McKelvey, Art Flynn, Joe Gordon, Edward Pawley, S. Bigman, Ed Sullivan, Virginia Field, G. Beane, P. Cusack, Jeanne Cagney, Marjorie Lawrence, Beverley Kelley, Jean Parker, Joan Barton, Ted Malone, Andre Baruch, Bea Wain, Peggy Lee, Nina Foch, Dorothy Gordon, Cy Steinhauser, Eddie Dowling, Fay McKenzie, Patrice Munsel, Pam Camp, Sonya Stein, Kent Smith, Jean Sablon, Danton Walker, Zuma Palmer, Dick Williams, Fabius Friedman, Alice Canfield, Jerry Devine, Erskine Johnson, Buddy Rogers, Edith Gwynn, Virginia McPherson, Seymour Nebenzal, John Nelson, Kirk Douglas, Shiela Graham, Agnes Moorehead, Arlene Rogers, Jimmy Starr, Gene Handsaker, Mel Blanc, Cliff Arquette, John Emory

Recurring Character(s):

Ellery Queen [Hugh Marlowe, Carelton Young, Sydney Smith, Larry Dobkin, Howard Culver]; Nikki Porter, Ellery Queen's secretary [Marian Shockley, Gertrude Warner, Joan Banks, Virginia Gregg]; Ellery Queen's father, Inspector Queen [Santos Ortega, Herb Butterfield]; Detective Sergeant Tom Velie [Ted De Corsia, Alan Reed]

Protagonist(s):

Ellery Queen, author and gentleman detective; Inspector Queen, Ellery's long-suffering father and Chief Inspector of the local detective force; Nikki Porter, Ellery's quick-witted secretary/assistant/love interest; Detective Sergeant Tom Velie, Inspector Queen's right hand

Author(s):

Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee

Writer(s)

Anthony Boucher, Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee, Tom Everett, Richard Manoff

Music Direction:

Charles Paul (New York), Chet Kingsbury, Rex Koury (Hollywood) [Organists]

Musical Theme(s):

Unknown

Announcer(s):

Bert Parks, Ernest Chappell, Don Hancock, Bill Cullen, Paul Masterson

Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:

357 [357 scripts, 500 broadcasts]

Episodes in Circulation:

30+

Total Episodes in Collection:

Provenances:

47-12-27 Billboard Review of Ellery Queen over ABC

radioGOLDINdex and radioGOLDINdex, Hickerson Guide, contributor-at-large Jon Guss, The Billboard.

Notes:

The most helpful provenances were newspaper listings.

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OTRisms:

We remain at a loss to understand the episode numbering systems employed throughout much of the OTR segment of the Vintage Radio collecting community. Naturally we get that the commercial OTR interests of the hobby have been driving things for the past 35 years. One supposes that, since these recordings are simply income-generating commodities to most of them, why not simply number every program that has the words "Ellery Queen" in it as one long run of The Adventures of Ellery Queen and be done with it.

The silliness that arises from logging many of the vintage Radio canons of the era in this manner is generally the result of extreme short-sightedness--or more likely sloppiness--on the part of the mostly commercial OTR concerns:

They care not one whit if--or whether--any number of ambiguities have arisen over the last 35 years regarding possible preemptions or non-aired programs--for whatever reasons.
They dumb down the entire hobby by unilaterally stating that Canon 'X' that ran for, say 15 years, is to simply be numbered '1' to infinity. And irrespective of breaks of as long as 4 years between series' within the canon, network changes, significant format changes, or format-altering sponsor changes--and that, by gum, is that.
They consequently make no allowance whatsoever for further historical discoveries regarding the historically accurate run history of a given canon.
Slaves to the automated OTTER System as many are--incurably flawed as it remains to this day--they can make no rational allowance for the several series' of the era that may have aired on one day weekly from the West Coast and a different day weekly from the Midwest or East Coast. There remain few if any reliable workarounds for OTTER's limitations in this respect:
- Going by 'their rules' one might understandably sequentially number each and every theoretical broadcast of a given period chronologically, with the earliest of either region's offerings of the exact same production preceding its counterpart, chronologically, from the other regions.
- Were it not for OTTER's limitations, one might well be able to catalog such a series, during such a period, with the annotations '(W)', '(M)', or '(E)', depending on its origination from the West Coast, Midwest, or East Coast. Such a practice is simply not possible with OTTER.

What we continue to fail to understand is the majority of the OTR community's failure to recognize the uniqueness of a particular broadcast run within a canon of productions:

Does it really make sense to continue to sequentially number a canon of similar broadcasts with breaks of as many as 4 years between the various sub-series' that comprise the canon?
Does it make any sense to continue to sequentially number a sub-series of a canon that had fundamentally changed for a period of months or years?
Or one that had, by the influence of its sponsor or network, begun to fundamentally change the format of a sub-series to incorporate its messages into the scripts?
Or the most obvious situation in a long-running canon--an inordinate number of network and sponsor changes throughout its run history [a good number of NBC-broadcast canons spring to mind].

See here's the thing about such inherently flawed, short-sighted canon-numbering systems. What if something's discovered that no one previously knew about the canon? But that could never ever happen, right? 'Experts' have already anointed the series as 'complete' as is. Absolutely nothing whatsoever could ever change that, no?

Well guess what? Things often do change, once they're further or more accurately documented. We've encountered literally hundreds of such anomalies in preparing our 400 'Definitive' logs to date. Such is the nature of any historical cataloging endeavor. And what happens to all those tens of thousands of private collections once a key discovery demands a complete resequencing of a canon? Oops!

There are no 'cookie-cutter' solutions to sequencing all known canons of vintage Radio recordings. Nor will there ever be. And that's as it should be. If a sub-series of a canon breaks for, say at least a year, that's a new sequence. If a previously sustaining series undergoes a radical change in format owing to any of the situations cited above, that's a new sequence. If a canon has run for say 10 years over three networks, those are three sequences of series within the canon. It's not rocket science. Now, say something's rediscovered regarding that canon. Only the sub-series need be resequenced instead of the entire 1935 to 1954 run. Makes sense, no? . . . Well maybe not so much to the commercial OTR interests and oligarchs. Buts that's our point.

It should.

We've often railed against phony 'East Coast--West Coast' runs of a given canon, especially those which were transcribed, canned and syndicated uniformly to all broadcast recipients. The Adventures of Ellery Queen, during its first NBC run, did indeed occasionally broadcast differing renditions of a program, differing primarily in the guest armchair detective(s) for a given program. Though we have no exemplars from which to compare differing East and West coast broadcasts of the NBC series, we know from contemporaneous newspaper listings of the era that the guest detectives did indeed vary occasionally. We have every reason to believe that such comparisons are indeed available within some of the larger private collections. But with only some thirty to forty genuine The Adventures of Ellery Queen in current circulation, such comparisons are simply not available at present.

Finally, this is yet another of the circulating canons that's been widely misrepresented as more complete than it currently is. Fully six recordings that we're aware of are not from any of the original broadcast canon of The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Some of the less reputable dealers have also been passing off recordings of a truncated recording of the premiere episode of Author! Author! as an exemplar of The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Others have been passing off Grace Gibson-licensed exemplars of Australian broadcasts of The Adventures of Ellery Queen as American broadcasts, as if the purchaser wouldn't immediately be alerted to the all-Australian casts of such exemplars. And of course we have the almost universal practice of arbitrarily relabeling exemplars from the various AFRS canons of their denatured and re-recorded Ellery Queen programs.

There's little doubt that far more exemplars of Ellery Queen will eventually be released. For now we have about a fifth of the originally broadcast output to enjoy. Presumably those sitting on the hundreds of other exemplars in private holdings will one day mature out of their bragging rights phase and release far more of them for the enjoyment of future generations.

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The Adventures of Ellery Queen Program Log -- 1939 to 1940 CBS Run
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
39-06-18	1	The Adventure of The Gum-Chewing Millionaire	N	39-06-17 Mason City Globe-Gazette KGLO--6:00 Adventures of Ellery Queen, CBS Queen's first CBS assignment will involve "The Gum-Chewing Millionaire," according to George Zachary, producing and directing the series of which he is the originator.
39-06-25	2	The Adventure of The Last Man Club	N	39-06-24 Mason City Globe-Gazette Unravel New Mystery on Sunday Show Via mental telepathy comes weird word that the three unwearied lates are currently spinning a new mystery to be unraveled in "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" over KGLO Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m. What is the doom hanging over "The Last Man Club," Queen's assignment in adventure? George Zachary, program originator, directs and produces—and, in addition, promises a quartet of wits in the studio to display the reasoning power representative of the listening audience. 39-06-25 Charleston Daily Mail Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, linguist-writer; Deems Taylor, composer: Gelett Burgess, author--illustrator, and Ed Gardner, producer- actor, are to he armchair detectives Sunday, when the "Adventures of the Last Man Club" submits to the deductive genius of Ellery Queen." (WCHS 7 to 8 p.m).
39-07-02	3	The Adventure of A Fallen Angel	N	39-07-01 Mason City Globe-Gazette SCIENTISTS TO HEAR MYSTERY Will Attempt to Solve Sunday Eve Air Adventure Francesca La Monte, associate curator of ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, Pauline Simmons, assistant curator of far eastern art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; William H. Barton, Jr., executive curator, Hayden planetarium, and Christopher W. Coates, aquarist, New York aquarium, assemble their scientific wits to assist Ellery Queen in solution of "The Adventure of a Fallen Angel," to be heard over KGLO Sunday from u to 7 p. m. Each of the four scientific wizards is to be given time during intermission to give CBS listeners armchair cetectives an individiual solution of the mystery. Intermission always arrives when Ellery Queen, gentleman detective, and his listeners are in possession of all clues necessary to the only solution. When the sleuthing scientists nave revealed their separate deductions, Queen, assisted by the comely Nikki, continues the drama and presents the outcome of his own step-by-step tracking down of the crime perpetrators.
39-07-09	4	The Adventure of Napoleon's Razor	N	39-07-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen Story (WBBM): Lillian Hellman, Herman Shumlin, Prof. Quiz, Betty Garde vs. Queen in solving "The Adventure of Napoleon's Razor." 39-07-08 Mason City Globe-Gazette MYSTERY SHOW SUNDAY NIGHT Adventure Proceeds From California to New York Ellery Queen, gentleman detective, finds "The Adventure of Napoleon's Razor" awaiting his deductive powers in the mystery broadeast to be aired over KGLO Sunday at 6 p. m. Aided by comely, competent Nikki, the master sleuth will start in Santa Fe station in Los Angeles and cross the country, arriving at Grand Cenlral terminal, New York. All the action occurs on the transcontinental train, which stops only long enough to allow four guest armchair detectives to offer individual solutions. George Zachary, program originator, directs and produces.
39-07-16	5	The Adventure of the Impossible Crime	N	39-07-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen Story (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Impossible Crime." 39-07-08 Mason City Globe-Gazette Could Be- And Yet It Couldn't Be "The Adventure of the Impossible Crime" confronts Ellery Queen, the intuitive Nikki, four armchair detectives and CBS listeners on the mystery to be heard over KGLO Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m. A murder that couldn't have been committed—and yet was—would reasonably be expected to stump such fictional criminologists as Sherlock Holmes, Nick Carter, Philo Vance, Perry Mason and Hercule Poirot
39-07-23	6	The Adventure of George Spelvin--Murderer	N	39-07-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00--Ellery Queen Story--WBBM 39-07-22 Mason City Globe-Gazette SIMPLE MURDER MYSTERY PLOT Sunday Thriller Develops Into Baffling Scene The "Adventure of George Spelvin—Murderer," which on the surface seems simple as "abc" but develops into the most baffling baffler, strains to capacity the deductive powers of Ellery Queen, his assistant-secretary, Nikki, the four armchair detectives and Columbia network listeners on the program to be aired over KGLO Sundny from 6 to 7 p. m. Certainly when the murderer is known, the mystery is solved. But not in this topsy-turvy tantalizer. Here all is known—and nothing! George Zachary, program originator, directs and produces.
39-07-30	7	The Adventure of the Bad Boy	N	39-07-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen Story (WBBM): child welfare leaders match wits with Queen in "The Adventure of the Bad Boy." 39-07-29 Mason City Globe-Gazette KILLER DILLER THRILLER The latest in Sunday night radio socks Is wallowing knee-deep in crime: The killer's at large and as sly a a fox; O, boy! What a wonderful time! Away1 on the hunt the whole family goes; The murder? By whom was it seen? The corpus delicti won't tell what he knows —Hurray! Here comes Ellery Queen!
39-08-06	8	The Adventure of the Flying Needle	N	39-08-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): matches wits with radio editors on "The Adventure of the Flying Nedle." 39-08-05 Mason City Globe-Gazette Adventure of Flying Needle Is Mystery It's going to be a "lough fight for second place," predicts J. E. "Dinty" Doyle of the Sunday broadcast about in which he and three other radio scribes are to meet Eilery Queen, Columbia network deductive champion, hoard over KGLO from 6 to 7 p. m. "The Adventure o£ the Flying Needle" is the mystery solution of which is designed to stump Doyle of the New York Journal- American; E. L. Bragdon, New York Sun radio editor; Leonand Carlton, New York Post radio editor, and Joe Ranson, radio editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In line with his usual policy program-originator George Zachary reveals little beyond the fact that the approaching adventure occurs during a broadcast. Kenneth Roberts, CBS announcer identified with all of Queen's air adventures, is to turn actor on the flying needle mystery and play Kenneth Roberts, announcer.
39-08-13	9	The Adventure of the Wandering Corpse	N	39-08-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): matches wits with Johnny Green, Howard Barlow, Raymond Paige, Mark Warnow on "The Adventure of the Wandering Corpse."
39-08-20	10	The Adventure of the Thirteenth Clue	N	39-08-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): competes with picture experts on "The Adventure of the 13th Clue." 39-08-19 Mason City Globe-Gazette "The Thirteenth Clue" Stumps Queen What has the theft of 12 assorted objects to do with "The Adventure of the Thirteenth Clue," solution of which stumps Ellery Queen, four great armchair detectives and Columbia network listeners? The program airs Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m. Assisted by the competent, comely Nikki, Columbia's gentleman-detective finds himself faced with a gruesome problem in a honky-tonk side show on Broadway. Complicating matters are a little freak, a Hindu fortune teller, a snake charmer and a card expert. And the stolen articles? Who could possibly want an ordinary flat iron, a mouse, broom, bag of salt, and deck of cards? Radiogenic-voiced Queen figures it out in his own ingenious, deductive fashion.
39-08-27	11	The Adventure of The Silent Partner	N	39-08-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00--Ellery Queen Story--WBBM 39-08-26 Mason City Globe-Gazette Of all persons, the CBS detective, Ellery Queen, was in a dither after the broadcast last Sunday evening because he couldn't find his hat after the program. An alert page spotted the hat in a far corner of the reception room and retrieved it for the sleuth. 39-08-27 Charleston Daily Mail Ellery Queen takes on four young people as competitors and guest armchair detectives Sunday in the solution of Columbia network's "Adventure of the Silent Partner," on WCHS at 7 to 8 p. m. The quartet consists of Lois Doyle, daughter of radio columnist "Denty;" Estelle Levy, of Nila Mack's "Let's Pretend;" Buster Hoefer, editor and publisher of the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Weekly, who contends its the world's smallest newspaper, and Arthur Ross, schoolboy emcee of "March of Games."
39-09-03	12	The Adventure of the Million Dollar Finger	N	39-09-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6 p.m.--Adventures of Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Milliion Dollar Finger."
39-09-10	13	The Adventure of The Three R's	N	39-09-09 Mason City Globe-Gazette "Adventure of the Three R's" The CBS sartorial sleuth, Ellery Queen, his able assistant and four armchair detectives attempt to solve another deep mystery Sunday from 6 to 7 p. m. This time the problem deals with "The Adventure of the Three R's."
39-09-17	14	Title Unknown	N	39-09-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:00--Ellery Queen Story--WBBM 39-09-16 Mason City Globe-Gazette Clues Must Check on Mystery Show Although he always knows the solution in advance George Zachary, who produces the "Ellery Queen" mysteries on CBS is beginning to feel pretty much like a sleuth himself. He spends half his time tracking down clues—but not in the Sherlock Holmes sense Zachary checks them. Listen to the mystery program on KGLO Sunday from 6 to 6:55 p. m. "Every mystery script has to have a focal clue on which the action hinges," he says. "The clue is usually some tiny detail in the story—a slot machine, a date, a baseball score board—but it must be the give-away to the murderer's identity. Unless it is perfectly correct in itself, people write in and criticize the solution."
39-09-24	15	The Adventure of the Lost Treasure Adventure of the Lost Treasurer	N	39-09-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Adventures of Ellery Queen (WBBM): artists match wits with detective in "Adventure of the Lost Treasurer." 39-09-23 Mason City Globe-Gazette MYSTERY SHOW LATER SUNDAY Ellery Queen Works on 'Lost Treasure" From 7 to 8 p. m. Ellery Queen. CBS gentleman detective, will try to solve "The Adventure of the Lost Treasure" Sunday when the series begins new schedule on KGLO from 7 o 8 p. m. It was formerly heard a 6 p. m. The four armchair detective who will attempt to arrive at solution of the "Lost Treasure' mystery before Queen during the later broadcast are Suzanne Silvercruys, sculptor; Tony Sarg, illustrator; Ruth Gerth, designer and Dean Cormvell, painter—all of whom were listed for the deduction squad Sept. 3, when the scheduled show was postponed because of European war new broadcasts. From an audience of 30 visitors to the broadcast, four are to be chosen to comprise the early armchair detective quartet.
39-10-01	16	The Adventure of the Woman From Nowhere	N	39-10-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): with the Vox Poppers quizzing audience on "The Adventure of the Woman from Nowhere."
39-10-08	17	The Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders	N	39-10-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): and the adventure of the Mother Goose murders.
39-10-15	18	March of Death	N	39-10-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "March of Death." 39-10-14 Mason City Globe-Gazette MYSTERY SHOW OFFERS CHILLS "March of Death" Featured on Hour Drama Sunday Eve Millionaire Samuel March is murdered soon after "March of Death" gets under way over the Columbia network and KGLO Sunday on the Ellery Queen mystery drama, heard from 7 to 7:55 p. m. He even carves a clue concerning his killer on a desk top. But that only serves to confuse the police. Suspicion points to six people including March's sons and daughters who were summoned from Cairo, Panama and other distant places just before he made a new will. Mastermind Ellery Queen finally steps in and solves the case through the clue which- baffles detectives.
39-10-22	19	The Adventure of the Haunted Cave	N	39-10-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): and a haunted cave. 39-10-21 Mason City Globe-Gazette Ellery Queen Tracks Killers Nikki returns from her vacation with strange lales about a haunted cave in the Adirondacks and, in practically no time at all, Ellery Queen plunges into another mystery drama on KGLO Sunday from 7 to 7:55 p.m. A couple of psychic research experts decide to investigate the legendary ghosts. The ghosts prove more real than imaginary, the probers meeting an untimely death. It takes Ellery Queen to de-haunt the cave.
39-10-29	20	The Adventure of the Dead Cat	N	39-10-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Dead Cat." 39-10-29 The Port Arthur News AS it usually happens, all members of the CBS Ellery Queen cast are not in the studio when the mystery is finally solved. So the members of the cast have made up a pool, each chipping in a dime and then guessing who the murderer is. Actor Ted de Corsia has won it three times now, with Robert Strauss a close second with two wins. People were suspecting De Corsia of having inside information, but we can vouch for the difficulty of finding out any dope before the show begins. We went to a recent broadcast and tried to get Actor Ray Hedge to tell us who the murderer was. He wouldn't so much as give us the initials. When the show was over we learned that Ray Hedge played the murderer.
39-11-05	21	The Adventure of the Picture Puzzle	N	39-11-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Picture Puzzle." 39-11-04 Mason City Globe-Gazette Ellery Queen Studies Picture Puzzle The story of a man who painted a picture which contained the key to a great fortune presents a perplexing problem for the armchair sleuths and Ellery Queen, heard over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m.
39-11-12	22	The Adventure of the Cellini Cup	N	39-11-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Cellini Cup." '39-11-11 Mason City Globe-Gazette "CELLINI CUP" FORMS MYSTERY Ellery Queen. Nikki, Inspector Queen, four armchair detectives and Columbia network listeners are confronted wtih "The Advenure of the Cellini Cup" on the Coumbia network mystery, heard aver KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m. George Zachary, program originator, directs and produces the serics which is in its fifth month as CBS feature.
39-11-19	23	The Adventure of the Tell-Tale Bottle	N	39-11-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): Tulane student, guest armchair detective. 39-11-18 Mason City Globe-Gazette QUEEN TELLS NEW ADVENTURE "Tell-Tale Bottle" Is Latest Mystery For CBS Sherlock "The Adventure of the Tell-Tale Bottle" will be dramatized this Sunday night on the Ellery Queen detective series, heard over KGLO, through CBS, at 7 p. m As the handsome, clever sleuth and his pretty secretary, Nikki proceed to an investigation and solution of the mystery, four amateur contestants will attempt to beat the professionals to the unravelling. One armchair detective will be a Tulane university coed, Alvena Smith, in New York for the Tulane-Columbia football game. An interesting revelation is the explanation of the radio detective's odd name. The authors of the series, Manny Lee and Fred Dannay, wanted to compound a name for their hero that would become well-remembered. They decided, since Q was the most unusual alphabetic letter, and then, since "Queen" presented definite picture, that was to be their figure's last name. "Ellery" was chosen for its rare application, and thereupon the completed pseudonym was tested on the friends of Dannay and Lee for tenacity to the memory. The name stuck in all cases tried and it now sticks in the minds of millions of Sunday night listeners all over the nation.
39-11-26	24	The Adventure of the Lost Child	N	39-11-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventures of the Lost Child." 39-11-25 Mason City Globe-Gazette Ellery Queen, the mystery man who keeps CBS listeners on the edges of their chairs during the broadcasts heard over KGLO from 7 to 8 p. m. every Sunday, is due for more film work—an extensive contract.
39-12-03	25	The Adventure of the Man Who Wanted to Be Murdered	N	39-12-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): the adventure of the man who wanted to be murdered. 39-12-04 Mason City Globe-Gazette "Man Who Wanted to Be Murdered" Ellery Queen, Nikki, four armchair detectives and Columbia network listeners are confronted with "The Adventure of the Man Who Wanted to Be Murdered," as it is heard Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m.
39-12-10	26	The Adventure of the Black Secret	N	39-12-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventures of the Black Secret." 39-12-09 Mason City Globe-Gazette Adventure of the Black Secret "The Adventure of the Black Secret" provides a new and baffling mystery for Ellery Queen, Nikki, four armchair detectives from the radio audience, and Columbia network listeners, as the mystery airs over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m. The CBS gentleman detective is assisted in the solution of the deductive problem by Inspector Queen and Sergeant Velie.
39-12-17	27	The Adventure of the Three Scratches	N	39-12-16 Mason City Globe-Gazette Adventure of the 'Three Scratches" "The Adventure of the Three Scratches"—a new twist in mystery, confronts Ellery Queen, four armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience, and Columbia network listeners in general as the program rings in over KGLO Sunday from 7 to B p. m.
39-12-24	28	The Adventure of the Swiss Nutcracker	N	39-12-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Swiss Nutcracker."
39-12-31	29	The Adventure of the Scorpion's Thumb	N	39-12-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Scorpion's Thumb" for armchair detectives. 39-12-30 Mason City Globe-Gazette "Scorpion's Thumb" Is Adventure Plot Ellery Queen, Nikki, Inspector Queen, Sergeant Velie, four guest armchair detectives selected from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners are confronted by an amazing mystery in "The Adventure of the Scorpion's Thumb" to be carried over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m.
40-01-07	30	The Adventure of the Scarecrow Man	N	40-01-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Scarecrow Man." 40-01-06 Mason City Globe-Gazette Columbia's gentleman detective, Ellery Queen and guest are shown in the above picture, working out a new mystery. Sunday evening this many and four armchair sleuths, chosen from the radio audience, as well as listeners will find themselves confronted with another baffling mystery, "The Adventure of the Scarecrow Man." The mystery airs ovcer KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m.
40-01-14	31	The Adventure of the Woman In Black	N	40-01-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Woman in Black." 40-01-13 Mason City Globe-Gazette "Woman in Black" Is Adventure Baffler on KGLO Sunday Evening Ellery Queen, his secretary, the intuitive Nikki, four armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general find themselves confronted with a new mystery in "The Adventure of the Woman in Black," to be heard over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m.
40-01-21	32	The Adventure of the Anonymous Letters	N	40-01-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): with George and Martha Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert E. Lee, solving "The Adventure of the Anonymous Letters." 40-01-20 Mason City Globe-Gazette "Anonymous Letters" Is Plot for Mystery "The Adventure of the Anonymous Letters" confronts Ellery Queen, Nikki Porter, Inspector Queen, Sergeant Velie, and four armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general, as the mystery show airs over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m.
40-01-28	33	The Adventure of the Devil's Violin	N	40-01-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): matches wits with John Smith, Flushing, N.Y.; John Smith, Brooklyn, N.Y.; John Smith and John Smith, New York City, in "The Adventure of the Devil's Violin." 40-01-27 Mason City Globe-Gazette Violin Plays Leading Part on Mystery Hour A violin plays the most important part in a new mystery of ''The Adventures of Ellery Queen" which confronts the CBS mastermind, Nikki Porter, Inspector Queen, four armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners m general. KGLO carries the mystery Sunday from 7 to 8 p. m. George Zachary. program originator, directs and produces the scries with music directed by Lyn Murray. 40-01-30 Mason City Globe-Gazette IS Ellery Queen the real name of the detective story writer? W. B Ellery Queen is the pen name of Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay who collaborate on the stories.
40-02-04	34	The Adventure of the Blue Curse	N	40-02-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Blue Curse." 40-01-27 Mason City Globe-Gazette Ellery Queen's Hour Probes "Adventure of Blue Curse" Sunday "The Adventure of the Blue Curse" is Ellery Queen's problem in deduction over KGLO and the Columbia network Sunday from ' to 8 p. m. Armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience seek to solve the mysteries. Ellery is assisted by his comely-copper-haired secretary, Nikki Porter, played by Marian Shockley; by his radio father Inspector Queen, played by Santos Ortega, and by Sergeant Velie, played by Ted De Corsia.
40-02-11	35	The Adventure of Captain Kidd's Bedroom	N	40-02-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Captain Kidd's Bedroom." 40-02-17 Mason City Globe-Gazette 'Adventure of Captain Kidd's Bedroom" on Air Ellery Queen, Nikki Porter, four armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general are confronted with the baffling mystery of "Adventure of Captain Kidd's Bedroom." to be heard over KGLO Sunday, from 7 to 8:oo.
40-02-18	36	Title Unknown	N	[Last hour-long format program] 40-02-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): a repeat mystery broadcast as yet unannounced. 40-02-17 Mason City Globe-Gazette Fans Choose Favorite for Mystery Hour Columbia network listeners are given an opportunity to hear their favorite Ellery Queen "adventure" Sunday 0n the mystery program to be heard over KGLO from 7 to 7:55 p. m. Since this is the last hour-long broadcast of the eight-months-old series, George Zachary, program originator, announced that Queen Fans have been given the opportunity to select the mystery that they have most enjoyed. Beginning Feb. 25, CBS's gentleman detective broadcasts his adventures over KGLO from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Lyn Murray, composer-conductor, directs the music. 40-02-18 Hammond Times 7:00—WBBM (770) Ellery Queen mystery voted as listeners' past favorite. 40-02-19 Hammond Times Q. Who takes the parts of Ellery Queen and Nikki Porter on the Ellery Queen mystery, program? M. Y. A. Hugh Marlowe plays the part of Ellery Queen and Marian Shockley plays the part of. Nikki Porter in the radio drama. 40-02-22 Syracuse Herald-Journal Ellery Queen in Movies Larry Darmout, independent producer, has acquired screen rights to the Ellery Queen mystery novels and the Ellery Queen radio program, and will produce a series of pictures based on the material.

40-02-25	37	The Adventure of the Old Soldiers	N	[Changes to half-hour format and from four armchair detectives to two] 40-02-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): in "The Adventure of the Old Soldiers." 40-02-24 Mason City Globe-Gazette Pack Thrills in Half Hour Mystery Skit All the thrills and challenge of radio's famous mystery series, "The Adventures of Ellery Queen," are packed into half-an-hour with the presentation of the program on Columbia's calendar for Sunday, to be heard over KGLO from 7 to 7:30 p. m. With the gentleman detective demonstrating his amazing powers of deduction, the first half-hour Ellery Queen mystery will be "The Adventure of the Old Soldiers." These popular programs formerly were hour long.
40-03-03	38	The Adventure of the Whistling Clown	N	40-03-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Whistling Clown." 40-03-02 Mason City Globe-Gazette Noisy Clown Shows Up in Mystery Plot ''The Adventure of the Whistling Clown" confronts Ellery Queen. Nikki Porter, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general as the Mystery Airs over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p. m. The CBS sartorial sleuth is supported by Inspector Queen (Santos Ortega) and Sergeant Vclie (Ted De Corsia.) Lyn Murray conducts the music.
40-03-10	39	The Adventure of the Three Fishbowls	N	40-03-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Three Fishbowls." 40-03-09 Mason City Globe-Gazette 'Adventure of 3 Fishbowls Is Sunday Evening Mystery "The Adventure of the Three Fishbowls," a new and exciting mystery, confronts Ellery Queen, Nikki (Marian Shockley) Porter, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p. m. Santos Ortega plays Ellery's father, Inspector Queen, Ted DeCorsia, the sergeant. Lynn Murray composes and conducts the musical score and George Zacbary directs and produces. The Sunday evening mystery heard regularly over KGLO, has attracted many sleuth-loving fans in this territory, according to comments received at KGLO
40-03-17	40	The Adventure of the Silver Ball	N	40-03-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Silver Ball." 40-03-16 Mason City Globe-Gazette Adventure of Silver Ball Is Mystery Plot A challenging mystery — "The Adventure of the Silver Ball"—confronts Ellery Queen, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners as the mystery comes in over KGLO at 7 p m. Marian Shockley plays the'role of Ellery's assistant, Nikki Porter, Santos Ortega, the role of Inspector Queen, and Ted DeCorsia appears as Sergeant Velie. Lyn Murray composes and conducts the music, the entire production being under the direction of George Zachary, the program originator.
40-03-24	41	The Adventure of the Wizard's Cat	N	40-03-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Wizard's Cat." 40-03-23 Mason City Globe-Gazette Wizard's Cat Is Target of Mystery Hour A new mystery—"The Adventure of the Wizard's Cat"—confronts Ellery Queen, Nikki Porter, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general on the mystery show to be heard over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p. m. The role of Nikki is played by comely, copper-haired Marian Porter; that of Inspector Queen the CBS sleuth's father, by Santos Ortega, and' that of the blustering lovable Sergeant Velie by Ted DeCorsia. Music is composed and conducted by Lyn Murray.
40-03-31	42	The Adventure of the Emperor's Dice	N	40-03-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Emperor's Dice." 40-03-30 Mason City Globe-Gazette Adventure of Dice Baffles Mystery Fans A baffling new mystery, "The Adventure of the Emperor's Dice," confronts Ellery Queen, Nikki Porter, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience, and listeners in general as the Ellery Queen mystery is aired from 7 to 7:30 p. m. Nikki's role is Played by Marion Shockley; Inspector Queen's—the father of the CBS sleuth—by Santos Ortega, and Sergeant Velie by Ted DeCorsia. Lyn Murray composes and conuctor the music for the program originated by Producer-Director George Zachary.
40-04-07	43	The Adventure of the Forgotten Men	N	[Moves to 9:00 p.m.] 40-03-23 Mason City Globe-Gazette Ellery Queen Show Will-Be Heard Two Hours Later Sunday A new mystery—"The Adventure of the Forgotten Men"—baffles Ellery Queen, Nikki Porter, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners, as the mystery airs over KGLO Sunday at the now hour—9 to 9:30 p. m. Music is conducted by Lyn Murrray.
40-04-14	44	The Adventure of the Yellow Pigeon	N	40-04-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Yellow Pigeon." 40-04-14 Charleston Daily Mail Ellery Queen, the gentleman detective, in the solution of a new and challenging mystery, "The Adventures of the Yellow Pigeon." (WCHS-CBS 10 to 10:30 p. m.)
40-04-21	45	The Adventure of the Poker Club	N	40-04-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Poker Club." 40-04-21 Charleston Daily Mail Ellery Queen's deductive reasoning is put to an acid test in the new baffler, "The Adventure of the Poker Club," which goes on the air Sunday night, at a new time, 8 p. m., for one week only. Next Sunday the popular mystery show will be heard from 7:30-8:00 and regularly thereafter at that time. The CBS radiogenic sleuth is assisted as usual by the comely, copper - haired Nikki (Marian Shockley), by Inspector Queen (Santos Ortega) and by Sergeant Velie (Ted DeCorsia).
40-04-28	46	The Adventure of the Double Triangle	N	40-04-28 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Double Triangle." 40-04-28 Charleston Daily Mail Heading the list of replacement will be "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" which succeeds the "Screen Guild Theater" at 7:30 p.m. EDST, or 6:30 Charleston time, over the WABC-Columbla network. Ever-alert Ellery Is billed to Investigate the case of a deceived husband in his "new debut' in a mystery thriller entitled "The Adventure of the Double Triangle." Two guest detectives will continue to feature each show in an attempt to solve the mystery at the time in the program Queen feels that sufficient facts have been projected to reveal the identity of the guilty party.
40-05-05	47	The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds	N	[Begin Gulf Oil sponsorship] 40-05-05 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds." 40-05-05 Charleston Daily Mail There's talk of waxing the Ellery Queen mystery series.
40-05-12	48	The Adventure of the Firebug	N	40-05-12 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Firebug."
40-05-19	49	The Adventure of Honeymoon House	N	40-05-19 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of Honeymoon House," a blonde and a tipsy play-boy.
40-05-26	50	The Adventure of the Mouse's Blood	N	40-05-26 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Mouse's Blood." 40-05-26 Charleston Daily Mail Ellery Queen, Nikki, his assistant and two armchair detectives chosen from the radio and CBS network listeners in general are confronted with a baffling new crime in Columbia's mystery series, "The Adventure of The Mouse's Blood." The program is at 6:30 Sunday night. Inspector Queen and Sergeant Velie fill out the leading roles of the drama. Lyn Murray directs music and Bert Parks is announcer.
40-06-02	51	The Adventure of the Four Murderers	N	40-06-02 Charleston Daily Mail WCHS--6:30--Adventures of Ellery Queen
40-06-09	52	The Adventure of the Good Samaritan	N	40-06-09 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Good Samaritan," a doer of good. 40-06-09 Charleston Daily Mail For the first time in his career, Ellery Queen, detective, will track down a doer of good instead of evil in the "Adventure of the Good Samaritan" over the" WABC-Columbia network Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Two guest detectives, representing the army of armchair sleuths who follow the program weekly, will match wits with Ellery in an effort to identify the anonymous sender of one-hundred dollar bills to needy people in a New York tenement house. Nikkl, Inspector Queen and Sergeant Velie will assist the young radio sleuth in rounding up the benevolent crook in this exciting adventure that proves that the strong arm of the law can be gentle too. Music for the program Is scored and played by Lyn Murray and his orchestra.
40-06-16	53	The Adventure of the Mysterious Travelers	N	40-06-16 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHA): "The Mysterious Travelers," murder suspects from three nations.
40-06-23	54	The Adventure of the Dark Cloud	N	40-06-23 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Dark Cloud," nine go on a cruise and eight return.
40-06-30	55	The Adventure of the Blind Bullet	N	40-06-30 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "Adventure of the Blind Buller," a bear and a millionaire are hit. 40-07-03 Wellsboro Agitator Ellery Queen may soon be available to his followers in four different mediums. Long a favorite of readers of books and of radio fans, Ellery will be seen in movie shorts to be made in the fall and there is talk of staging an Ellery Queen melodrama on Broadway.
40-07-07	56	The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator	N	[The first appearance of one of the original Ellery Queen novels used in the Radio program] 40-07-07 San Antonio Light the Ellery Queen mystery on Columbia, "The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator" (KTSA—6:30 p. m.). 40-07-07 The Lima News For the first time in the history of the program, an Ellery Queen story that has appeared in print will be dramatized on the air when "The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator" is broadcast by popular request on Sunday over WABC at 6.30 p. m. 40-07-09 Circleville Herald George Zachary, casting director of the Ellery Queen show, is a stickler for authenticity in choosing actors for his foreign character roles. He has been known to audition a dozen performers for a two-line bit role!
40-07-14	57	The Adventure of the Frightened Star	N	40-07-14 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Frightened Star," a Hollywood scare story. 40-07-07 The Lima News News Hollywood Mystery To Confront Master Detective "The Adventure Of The Frightened Star" To Test "Ellery Queen" At 6:30 P. M. Sunday The 57th broadcast of the "Ellery Queen" series will find the master detective solving a Hollywood mystery, "The Adventure of the Frightened Star," over WABC at 6:30 p. m. Sunday. Music will be arranged and conducted by Lyn Murray. 40-07-18 Wisconsin State Journal RADIO GOSSIP: When the Ellery Queen series' commercial contract expires, Madison may be able to hear it again without struggling to pick up WHAS, closest present outlet; its sponsors' products aren't sold in this territory
40-07-21	58	The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt	N	40-07-21 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): matches wits with Carol Bruce, of "Louisiana Purchase," and Jack Berlind, cab pilot, on "The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt."
40-07-28	59	The Adventure of the Black Sheep	N	40-07-28 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): artist and comedian match wits on "The Adventure of the Black Sheep."
40-08-04	60	The Adventure of the Fatal Million	N	40-08-04 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Fatal Million." 40-06-09 Charleston Daily Mail Pitt Quarterback Tackles Ellery Queen Mystery as Armchair Sleuth on Show Ben Kish, Pittsburgh university quarterback, will tackle "The Adventure of the Fatal Million" as armchair sleuth on the Ellery Queen show over CBS-WCHS Sunday at 6:30 p. m. Also hoping to throw Ellery for a loss by naming the filcher of a million dollars In cash before he gets around to It will be Miss Doris Sharpe, former CBS receptionist. With Kish. she will follow the efforts of radio's ace detective, assisted by Nikki, Inspector Queen and Sergeant Velie, to solve the mystery of the pilfered fortune that destroys a life, a home and a career before a cent of it is spent. Miss Sharpe left the Columbia Broadcasting System to form 'Radio Registry', an agency that keeps tab on the whereabouts of actors for the convenience of program directors. Kish will captain the all-star football team that battles the New York Giants in September for the benefit of the New York Herald-Tribune fresh air fund.
40-08-11	61	The Adventure of the Mysterious Clock	N	40-08-11 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Mysterious Clock" and the air-tight alibis. 40-07-07 The Lima News News Ellery Queen Presents Mystery Story Program, Small Town Editor Will Be Guest Detective Ellery Queen probes three air-tight alibis to solve "The Aventure of the Mysterious Clock" which involves the theft of a precious ruby pendant in his detective mystery over WABC, Sunday at 6:30 p. m. Andrew S. Telep, a small town newspaper editor from Mayfield, Pennsylvania, will turn guest detective and attempt to name the thief before Ellery Queen, Nikki, Inspector Queen and Sergeant Velie turn up enough evidence for the radio sleuth to say he has his man.
40-08-18	62	The Adventure of the Meanest Man In the World	N	40-08-18 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Meanest Man in the World." 40-08-25 Charleston Daily Mail The Adventure of the Meanest Man In the World,"—a baffling problem in deduction—confronts Ellery Queen, Nlkki, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general Sunday from 6:30 to 7 over CBS-WCHS. 40-08-23 Wisconsin State Journal NO PHOTO: Unlike most fictional heroes, Ellery Queen has never been pictured except in words to readers of his detective novels. The collaborating authors have conflicting ideas of what their hero looks like and no artist has been able to satisfy both.
40-08-25	63	The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse	N	40-08-25 Charleston Daily Mail "The Adventure of Pharoh's Curse"—a baffling problem in deduction confronts gentlemen detective Ellery Queen, his comely, copper-haired secretary, Nikki, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience, and Columbia network listeners from coast-to-coast, Sunday evening from 6:30 to 7 o'clock, over CBS-WCHS
40-09-01	64	The Adventure of Box Number 13	N	40-09-01 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "Box 13," murder mixes with baseball. 40-09-01 Charleston Daily Mail The "Adventure of Box Number 13"—a baffling problem in deduction, confronts Ellery Queen, the gentleman detective, his secretary, Nikki, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience, and Columbia network listeners from coast-to-coast, Sunday, 6:30 to 7 o'clock, CBS-WCHS.
40-09-08	65	The Adventure of the Picnic Murder	N	40-09-08 Charleston Daily Mail 'Adventure of Picnic Murder' Faces Ellery Queen on WCHS The "Adventure of the Picnic Murder," another baffling problem In deduction, confronts Ellery Queen, the gentleman defective, and his assistants, two armchair detectives chosen from the radio audience, Nikki (his secretary) and Columbia network listeners from coast-to-coast Sunday evening at 6:30 over CBS and WCHS. 40-09-09 Denton Record-Chronicle Q: Who is Ellery Queen, the mystery writer? A: Ellery Queen isn't a fellow. He is two Jewish boys who produce radio shows--in addition to writing murder mysteries. Previously they wrote under the name of Barnaby Ross.
40-09-15	66	The Adventure of the Vanishing Magician	N	40-09-15 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "The Adventure of the Vanishing Magician."
40-09-22	67	The Adventure of the House of Cain The Adventure of the Mark of Cain	N	[Last program of series; Replaced over CBS by Screen Guild Theatre] 40-09-22 Wisconsin State Journal 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WHAS): "Adventure of Mark of Cain." 40-09-22 Charleston Daily Mail In the "Adventure of the Mark of Cain" Ellery Queen, his beautiful secretary, Nikki, two armchair detectives and listeners are faced with a mystery problem. Airtime is from 6:30 to 7. 40-09-22 San Antonio Light The Ellery Queen series will be concluded on C. B. S. with "The Adventure of the House of Cain". (KTSA—5:30 p m.). 40-09-22 The Lima News Ellery Queen To Bow Off Air With Exciting Case Ellery Queen will bow off the air with one of his most thrilling cases, "The Adventure of the House of Cain," over WABC Sunday at 6:30 p. m. The "Screen Guild Theatre" will supplant the detective mystery series in Sunday, Sept. 29.

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Program Log -- 1942 to 1944 NBC Run
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
42-01-08	1	The Adventure of the Song of Death	N	[Pre-release NBC-Red Pacific premiere of The Adventures of Ellery Queen, sponsored by Emerson Drug (Bromo-Seltzer); to be broadcast on Saturdays on a regular basis from Jan 10th, forward] 42-01-08 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-01-10	1	The Adventure of the Song of Death	N	[Nationwide premiere of The Adventures of Ellery Queen over NBC] 42-01-10 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): back on the air in "The Song of Death," with Col. Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle as armchair detective.
42-01-15	2	The Adventure of the Invisible Clue	N	42-01-15 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-01-17	2	The Adventure of the Invisible Clue	N	42-01-17 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Adventures of Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Invisible Clue," a threat of death.
42-01-22	3	The Adventure of the Patient Murderer	N	42-01-22 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-01-24	3	The Adventure of the Patient Murderer	N	42-01-24 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 Ellery Queen--WMAQ
42-01-29	4	The Adventure of the 52nd Card	N	42-01-29 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-01-31	4	The Adventure of the 52nd Card	N	42-01-31 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 Ellery Queen--WMAQ
42-02-05	5	The Adventure of the Imaginary Man	N	42-02-05 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-02-07	5	The Adventure of the Imaginary Man	N	42-02-07 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Imaginary Man," with Lucille Manners and Frank Forest in the armchairs.
42-02-12	6	Title Unknown	N	42-02-12 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-02-14	6	Title Unknown	N	42-02-14 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): sudden death on Valentine's Day.
42-02-19	7	The Adventure of Geo. Washington's Dollar	N	42-02-19 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-02-21	7	The Adventure of Geo. Washington's Dollar	N	42-02-21 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of George Washington's Dollar," with Gilda Gray and Joe Howard as armchair detectives.
42-02-26	8	The Adventure of the Old Witch	N	42-02-26 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-02-28	8	The Adventure of the Old Witch	N	42-02-28 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Old Witch."
42-03-05	9	The Adventure of the Missing Tumbler	N	42-03-05 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-03-07	9	The Adventure of the Missing Tumbler	N	42-03-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Missing Tumbler," fixing in the sports world.
42-03-12	10	The Adventure of the Income Tax Robbery	N	42-03-12 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-03-14	10	The Adventure of the Income Tax Robbery	Y	42-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Income Tax Robbery."
42-03-19	11	The Adventure of the Out-of-Order Telephone	N	42-03-19 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-03-21	11	The Adventure of the Out-of-Order Telephone	N	42-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Out-of-Order Telephone."
42-03-26	12	The Adventure of the Servant Problem	N	42-03-26 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen.
42-03-28	12	The Adventure of the Servant Problem	N	42-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Servant Problem," with stars of Angel Street" as guest detectives.
42-04-02	13	The Adventure of the Black Syndicate	N	42-04-02 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-04-04	13	The Adventure of the Black Syndicate	N	42-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Black Syndicate."
42-04-09	14	The Adventure of Ellery Queen, Swindler	N	42-04-09 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-04-11	14	The Adventure of Ellery Queen, Swindler	N	42-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Ellery Queen, Swindler."
42-04-16	15	The Adventure of the Superstitious Client	N	42-04-16 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-04-18	15	The Adventure of the Superstitious Client	N	42-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Superstitious Client."
42-04-23	16	The Adventure of the Millionaires' Club	N	42-04-23 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-04-25	16	The Adventure of the Millionaires' Club	N	42-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Millionaires' Club."
42-04-30	17	The Adventure of the Living Corpse	N	42-04-30 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-05-02	17	The Adventure of the Living Corpse	N	42-05-02 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Living Corpse."
42-05-07	18	The Adventure of the Missing Child	N	42-05-07 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-05-09	18	The Adventure of the Missing Child	N	42-05-09 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Missing Child."
42-05-14	19	The Adventure of the Green Hat	N	42-05-14 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-05-16	19	The Adventure of the Green Hat	N	42-05-16 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): with an honest-to-goodness murder jury "The Adventure of the Green Hat."
42-05-21	20	The Adventure of the Three IOU's	N	42-05-21 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-05-23	20	The Adventure of the Three IOU's	N	42-05-23 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Three IOUs," with Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago and Alice Marble, tennis ace, as armchair detectives.
42-05-28	21	The Adventure of The Old Men	N	42-05-28 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-05-30	21	The Adventure of The Old Men	N	42-05-30 The Billboard EMERY DEUTSCH will be guest armchair detective on the Ellery Queen program May 30
42-06-04	22	The Adventure of the Dog Fires	N	42-06-04 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-06-06	22	The Adventure of the Dog Fires	N	42-06-06 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Dog Fires," story of heartless pyromaniac.
42-06-11	23	The Adventure of the June Bride	N	42-06-11 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-06-13	23	The Adventure of the June Bride	N	42-06-13 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "June Bride Adventure." 42-06-13 The Billboard Odds are five to one against armchair detectives solving ELLERY QUEEN murder mysteries, according to the guesses in the NBC series which started in January. Thirteen were correct; 68 missed.
42-06-18	24	The Adventure of the Golf Murder	N	42-06-18 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-06-20	24	The Adventure of the Golf Murder	N	42-06-20 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Golf Murder."
42-06-25	25	The Adventure of the Midnight Visitor	N	42-06-25 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-06-27	25	The Adventure of the Midnight Visitor	N	42-06-27 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Midnight Visitor."
42-07-02	26	The Adventure of the Air Raid Warden	N	42-07-02 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-07-04	26	The Adventure of the Air Raid Warden	N	42-07-04 Wisconsin State Journal 9:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Air Raid Warden."

42-10-08	27	The Adventure of the World Series Crime	N	42-10-08 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-10-10	27	The Adventure of the World Series Crime	N	42-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): returns to the air in "Adventure of the World Series," with Pierre Huss and Benay Venuta as armchair sleuths. 42-10-10 New York Times - 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Program.
42-10-15	28	The Adventure of Mr X	N	42-10-15 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-10-17	28	The Adventure of Mr X	N	42-10-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Mr. X."
42-10-22	29	The Adventure of the Polish Refugee	N	42-10-22 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-10-24	29	The Adventure of the Polish Refugee	N	42-10-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Polish Refugee."
42-10-29	30	The Adventure of the Witch's Broom	N	42-10-29 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-10-31	30	The Adventure of the Witch's Broom	N	42-10-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Witch's Broom."
42-11-05	31	The Adventure of the Fatal Letter	N	42-11-05 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-11-07	31	The Adventure of the Fatal Letter	N	42-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Fatal Letter," with Lucille Mannres and Jerry Lester as guest detectives.
42-11-12	32	The Adventure of the Poet's Triangle	N	42-11-12 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-11-14	32	The Adventure of the Poet's Triangle	N	42-11-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Poet's Triangle." 42-11-14 The Billboard Ellery Queen will have ANN CORIO for its guest detective November 14 and BERT LYTELL on the 21st.
42-11-19	33	The Adventure of the Bald-Headed Ghost	N	42-11-19 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-11-21	33	The Adventure of the Bald-Headed Ghost	N	42-11-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Bald-Headed Ghost."
42-11-26	34	The Adventure of the Dead Man's Chest The Adventure of the Three Mothers	N	42-11-26 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-11-28	34	The Adventure of the Dead Man's Chest The Adventure of the Three Mothers	N	[Thanksgiving program] 42-11-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Three Mothers." 42-11-28 Lowell Sun ELLERY QUEEN mystery: "Adventures of the Three Mothers;" WBZ 7:30to 8. 42-11-28 The Billboard Guest sleuths on Ellery Queen November 28 will be BERNARD GEIS and one of his cover girls. Drama is called The Adventure of the Dead Man's Chest and has a special Thanksgiving message.
42-12-03	35	The Adventure of the Man In the Taxi	N	42-12-03 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-12-05	35	The Adventure of the Man In the Taxi	N	42-12-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Man in the Taxi," with Sally Rand and Barry Wood as guest detectives.
42-12-10	36	The Adventure of the Three Mothers	N	42-12-10 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-12-12	36	The Adventure of the Three Mothers	N	42-12-12 Huntingdon Daily News WEAF--7:30--Ellery Queen: 'Three Mothers'
42-12-17	37	The Adventure of the Yellow Ledger	N	42-12-17 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-12-19	37	The Adventure of the Yellow Ledger	N	42-12-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Yellow Ledger," spy story. 42-12-19 The Billboard . . . In some cases an agent's entire list of performers eventually ask to get on "prestige" shows like Information, Please as guest experts, on Ellery Queen as guest armchair detectives, on Battle of the Sexes as guest stooges, on Take It or Leave It as guest ringers. They'll be a guest on anything as long as it's before a mike. It's getting so that the shows themselves are becoming tougher and tougher to crash because many name-guests experts have turned out to be just guest dopes.
42-12-24	38	The Adventure of the Red and Green Boxes	N	42-12-24 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
42-12-26	38	The Adventure of the Red and Green Boxes	N	42-12-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventures of the Red and Green Boxes."
42-12-31	39	The Adventure of the Man Who Was Murdered By Installments	N	42-12-31 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-01-02	39	The Adventure of the Man Who Was Murdered By Installments	N	42-01-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Man Who Was Murdered by Instalments.
43-01-07	40	The Adventure of the Singing Rat	N	43-01-07 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-01-09	40	The Adventure of the Singing Rat	Y	43-01-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Singing Rat."
43-01-14	41	The Adventure of Mr Short and Mr Long	N	43-01-14 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-01-16	41	The Adventure of Mr Short and Mr Long	N	43-01-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Mr. Short and Mr. Long."
43-01-21	42	The Adventure of Little Red Hiding Hood	N	43-01-21 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-01-23	42	The Adventure of Little Red Hiding Hood	N	43-01-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Little Red Riding Hood," story of murder by poison. 43-01-23 Lima News Nikki, able assistant to Ellrey Queen, plays a triple role in The Adventure of the Fairy Tale Murder, Saturday, WEAF, 7:30 p.m. Besides being herself, Nikki impersonates Little Red Riding Hood and a frightened old woman. It will happen in the course of solving a poison murder, which involves three big, bad wolves, keeping the fairy tale touch.
43-01-28	43	The Adventure of Tom, Dick and Harry	N	43-01-28 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-01-30	43	The Adventure of Tom, Dick and Harry	N	43-01-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): solves a submarine mystery. 43-01-30 Lima News - Ellery Queen is summoned to Washington to investigate the most important case of his career in "The Adventure of Tom, Dick and Harry" on Saturday WEAF, 7:30 p.m.
43-02-04	44	The Adventure of the Secret Enemy	N
43-02-06	44	The Adventure of the Secret Enemy	N	43-02-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Secret Enemy."
43-02-11	45	The Adventure of the Broken Statues	N	43-02-11 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-02-13	45	The Adventure of the Broken Statues	N	43-02-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Broken Statues" takes Queen in search of someone who deliberately keeps smashing the poor attempts of a tyro sculptor.
43-02-18	46	The Adventure of the Two Swordsmen	N	43-02-18 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-02-20	46	The Adventure of the Two Swordsmen	N	43-02-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Two Swordsmen;" Betty Bruce, dancer, and Herb Shriner, radio comedian, guest detectives.
43-02-25	47	The Adventure of the One-Legged Man	N	43-02-25 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-02-27	47	The Adventure of the One-Legged Man	N	43-02-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the One-Legged Man." 43-02-27 Lima News Ellery Queen's second assignment from Washington as Special Investigator for the United States Government takes him to a Long Island war plant in "The Adventure of the One-Legged Man," Saturday over WEAF at 7:30 p.m. (EWT). There he encounters a serious sabotage plot and murder. Before revealing the solution, Ellery will challenge two guest armchair detectives, Sara Ann McCabe, singer in "Show Time," and Wilbur Evans, noted baritone. 43-02-27 The Billboard WHEN KNOWLES ENTRIKEN, who directed the Ellery Queen broadcasts received a sudden call for an important assignement for the West Coast office of Ruthrauff & Ryan, the cast came up with a clever going-away gift, a handsome picnic basket filled with sandwiches, canned goods, and thermos coffee, just in case KNOWLES couldn't get into the diner of the transcontinental trains.
43-03-04	48	The Adventure of Number Thirteen Dream Street	N	43-03-02 Long Beach Independent THURSDAY--9:30 P.M.--KFI-Ellery Queen
43-03-06	48	The Adventure of Number Thirteen Dream Street	N	43-03-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of No. 13 Dream st."
43-03-11	49	The Adventure of the Incredible Murder	N	43-02-25 San Mateo Times "Adventure of Incredible Murder" 'is title of "Ellery Queen" mystery (9:30-KPO).
43-03-13	49	The Adventure of the Incredible Murder	N	43-03-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): John Shuttleworth, editor of True Detective magazine, and Madge Evans, screen star, guest detectives; "Adventure of the Incredible Murder."
43-03-18	50	The Adventure of the Boy Detectives	N	43-03-18 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-03-20	50	The Adventure of the Boy Detectives	N	43-03-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): Frank Forrest, radio singer, guest detective; "The Adventure of the Boy Detectives." 43-03-20 Lima News Ellery Queen is joined by two special assistants in the "Adventure of the Boy Detectives" in solving the case of the "Great Nut Mystery" Saturday, WEAF, 7:30 p.m., E.W.T. Jimmy Doyle and Sammy Berg, two messengers, get on the trail of desperate criminals with Ellery to solve a baffling case which arises in the simple surroundings of Nuttlely's Nut Store.
43-03-25	51	The Adventure of the Circus Train	N	43-03-25 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-03-27	51	The Adventure of the Circus Train	Y	43-03-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Circus Train;" Supt. G.R. Crowley, New Haven railroad polie, and F. Beverley Kelly, Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus radio director, guest detectives.
43-04-01	52	The Adventure of the Human Weapon	N	43-04-01 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-04-03	52	The Adventure of the Human Weapon	N	43-04-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Human Weapon"--insane man seeks his wife's life.
43-04-08	53	The Adventure of the Three Musketeers	N	43-04-08 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-04-10	53	The Adventure of the Three Musketeers	N	43-04-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): trails lottery murder. 43-04-10 Lowell Sun ELLERY QUEEN mystery: "The Adventure of the Three Musketeers;" WBZ 7:30 to 8.
43-04-15	54	The Adventure of Pharaoh Jones' Last Case	N	43-04-15 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO—"Ellery Qneen" presents "The Adventures of Pharoah Jones' Last Case"
43-04-17	54	The Adventure of Pharaoh Jones' Last Case	N	43-04-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Pharaoh Jones' Last Case," story of a forgotten manuscript.
43-04-22	55	The Adventure of the Deadly Game	N	43-04-22 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO--"Ellery Qneen" tells "Adventures of Deadly Game"
43-04-24	55	The Adventure of the Deadly Game	N	43-04-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Deadly Game," in which death follows a poker session.
43-04-29	56	The Adventure of the Three Gifts	N	43-04-29 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-05-01	56	The Adventure of the Three Gifts	N	43-05-01 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 Ellery Queen--WTMJ WMAQ. 43-05-01 Lima News Crime intrudes in the placid life of little old Jonathan Caylilff, whose one desire is to bring happiness to three people he has never seen, when he becomes the central figure in "The Adventure of hte Three Gifts" on "Ellery Queen" Saturday over WEAF 7:30 p.m. (EWT). The gentleman detective, assisted by his father, Inspector Queen and Sgt. Velie finds it a puzzling case.
43-05-06	57	The Adventure of the Eye Print	N	43-05-06 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-05-08	57	The Adventure of the Eye Print	N	43-05-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Eye Print."
43-05-13	58	The Adventure of the Barbaric Murder	N	43-05-13 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-05-15	58	The Adventure of the Barbaric Murder	N	43-05-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Barbaric Murder."
43-05-20	59	The Adventure of the Fortune Teller	N	43-05-20 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO—"Ellery Queen" will tell "The Adventure of the Fortune Teller"'
43-05-22	59	The Adventure of the Fortune Teller	N	43-05-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Fortune Teller."
43-05-27	60	The Adventure of the Death Traps	N	43-05-27 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO—"Ellery Qneen" in "Adventure of the Death Traps"
43-05-29	60	The Adventure of the Death Traps	N	43-05-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Death Traps."
43-06-03	61	The Adventure of the Killer Who Was Going To Die	N	43-06-03 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-06-05	61	The Adventure of the Killer Who Was Going To Die	N	43-06-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Killer Who Was Going to Die."
43-06-10	62	The Adventure of Crime, Inc	N	43-06-10 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-06-12	62	The Adventure of Crime, Inc	N	43-06-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Crime, Inc."
43-06-17	63	The Adventure of the Man With the Red Beard	N	43-06-17 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-"Ellery Queen" demonstrates versatility as a detective
43-06-19	63	The Adventure of the Man With the Red Beard	N	43-06-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): an adventure in pure logic. 43-06-19 Lima News Ellery Queen demonstrates his versatility as a detective by solving his puzzler without even leaving his apartment Saturday (WEAF, 7:30 p.m., EWT). Ellery puts himself in the same position as his armchair detective guests by never visiting the scene of hte crime or seeing the corpse. He solves the "Adventure of the Man with the Red Beard" by pure logic.
43-06-24	64	The Adventure of Sergeant Velie's Revenge	N	43-06-24 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-06-26	64	The Adventure of Sergeant Velie's Revenge	N	43-06-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): Norman Tokar, starred as Henry in The Aldrich Family, and Virginia Field, Broadway star, guest armchair detectives in "The Adventure of Sergeant Velie's Revenge."
43-07-01	65	The Adventure of the Hidden Crime	N	43-07-01 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-07-03	65	The Adventure of the Hidden Crime	N	43-07-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): James Montgomery Flagg, artist, guest armchair detective for "Adventure of the Hidden Crime."
43-07-08	66	The Adventure of the Double Triangle	N	43-06-24 San Mateo Times 9:30 KPO— "Ellery Queen" presents "Adventure of Double Triangle"
43-07-10	66	The Adventure of the Double Triangle	N	43-07-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): irate husband begs protection against himself in "The Adventure of the Double Triangle."
43-07-15	67	The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds	N	43-07-15 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-07-17	67	The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds	N	43-07-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Man Who Could Double the Size of Diamonds."
43-07-22	68	The Adventure of the Firebug	N	43-07-22 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-07-24	68	The Adventure of the Firebug	N	43-07-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Fire Bug," with Paula Stone and Joe Howard.
43-07-29	69	The Adventure of Honeymoon House	N	43-07-29 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-07-31	69	The Adventure of Honeymoon House	N	43-07-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of Honeymoon House," with Ann Corio and Paul Valalle, guests.
43-08-05	70	The Adventure of the Mouse's Blood	N	43-08-05 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-08-07	70	The Adventure of the Mouse's Blood	N	43-08-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Mouse's Blood."
43-08-12	71	The Adventure of the Four Murderers	N	43-08-12 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-08-14	71	The Adventure of the Four Murderers	N	43-08-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Four Murderers." 43-08-19 Manitowoc Herld-Times Ted De Corsia, who specializes in both dumb cops (as Sgt Velie in "Ellery Queen") and villains, is another whose pay check disproves all they teach in reform school.
43-08-19	72	The Adventure of the Good Samaritan	N	43-08-19 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-08-21	72	The Adventure of the Good Samaritan	N	43-08-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Good Samaritan," with Ralph Edwards and Rajah Raboid.
43-08-26	73	The Adventure of the Mysterious Travelers	N	43-08-26 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-08-28	73	The Adventure of the Mysterious Travelers	N	43-08-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Mysterious Travelers," Jan Kiepura, guest.
43-09-02	74	The Adventure of the Dark Cloud	N	43-09-02 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-09-04	74	The Adventure of the Dark Cloud	N	43-09-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Dark Cloud."
43-09-09	75	The Adventure of the Blind Bullet	N	43-09-02 San Mateo Times 9:30 KPO— Spike Jones super sleuths for "Ellery Queen"
43-09-11	75	The Adventure of the Blind Bullet	N	43-09-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Blind Bullet," with Julie Stevens and Dick Coogan of "Abie's Irish Rose" as guests.
43-09-16	76	The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator	N	43-09-16 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-09-18	76	The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator	N	43-09-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Fallen Gladiator," story of the prize ring.
43-09-23	77	The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt	N	43-09-23 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-09-25	77	The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt	N	43-09-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Treasure Hunt," with comedians "Senator" Ford, Harry Hershfield, and Joe Laurie, Jr., as guests.
43-09-30	78	The Adventure of the World Series Crime	N	43-09-30 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-10-02	78	The Adventure of the World Series Crime	Y	43-10-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the World Series Game." Announces the end of the Command Performance episodes of the Summer series
43-10-07	79	The Adventure of the Man With 10,000 Enemies	N	43-10-07 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-10-09	79	The Adventure of the Man With 10,000 Enemies	N	43-10-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Man With 10,000 Enemies." Guests, Ed Pawley, radio actor; Mary Little, radio columnist.
43-10-14	80	The Adventure of the Hopeless Case	N	43-10-14 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-10-16	80	The Adventure of the Hopeless Case	N	43-10-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Hopeless Case;" Nadine Conner, singer, and Mayor Clarence V. Mooney of Asbury Park, N.J., guests.
43-10-21	81	The Adventure of the Frightened Star	N	43-10-21 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-10-23	81	The Adventure of the Frightened Star	N	43-10-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): solves Hollywood mystery in "Adventures of the Frightened Star;" guests from U.S. navy in observance of Navy Day, Oct. 27, Seaman First Class Elizabeth Wright and Pharmacist Mate First Class Harry Goldman.
43-10-28	82	The Adventure of the Stolen Rembrandt	N	43-10-28 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-10-30	82	The Adventure of the Stolen Rembrandt	N	43-10-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Stolen Rembrandt;" guests, two industrial leaders. 43-11-04 The Van Nuys News Ted De Corsia, who's Sergeant Velie in "Ellery Queen" show, raises poultry near New York, sells eggs to members of the cast--no butter though.
43-11-04	83	The Adventure of the Vanishing Magician	N	43-11-04 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-11-06	83	The Adventure of the Vanishing Magician	Y	43-11-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Vanishing Magician." Guests, Sonia Bigman, radio editor of Time magazine, and Ed Pawley, radio actor.
43-11-11	84	The Adventure of the Three-Dollar Robbery	N	43-11-11 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-11-13	84	The Adventure of the Three-Dollar Robbery	N	43-11-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Three-Dollar Robbery."
43-11-18	85	The Adventure of the Bullet-Proof Man	N	43-11-18 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-11-20	85	The Adventure of the Bullet-Proof Man	N	43-11-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Bullet-Proof Man;" guests, Parks Johnson and Warren Hull of "Vox Pop."
43-11-25	86	The Adventure of the Train That Vanished	N	43-11-25 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-11-27	86	The Adventure of the Train That Vanished	N	43-11-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Train That Vanished;" guests, Jack Dempsey and Boatswain's Mate First Class John C. Cullen, winner of Legion of Merit medal for trapping Nazi spies.
43-12-02	87	The Adventure of the Dying Message	N	43-12-02 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-12-04	87	The Adventure of the Dying Message	N	43-12-04 New York Times 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Show: Adventure of the Dying Message.
43-12-09	88	The Adventure of the Man Who Played Dead	N	43-12-09 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-12-11	88	The Adventure of the Man Who Played Dead	N	43-12-11 New York Times 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Show: Adventure of the Man Who Played Dead.
43-12-16	89	The Adventure of the Unlucky Man	N	43-12-16 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-12-18	89	The Adventure of the Unlucky Man	N	43-12-18 New York Times 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Show: Adventure of the Unlucky Man.
43-12-23	90	The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll	N	43-12-23 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
43-12-25	90	The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll	N	43-12-25 New York Times 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Show: Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll.
43-12-30	91	The Adventure of the Invisible Footprints	N	43-12-30 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-01-01	91	The Adventure of the Invisible Footprints	N	44-01-01 New York Times 7:30-WEAF--Ellery Queen Show: Adventure of the Invisible Footprints.
44-01-06	92	The Adventure of the Disaster Club	N	44-01-06 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-01-08	92	The Adventure of the Disaster Club	N	44-01-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Disaster Club;" guest detectives Jack McManus, assistant managing editor of PM, and Joan Brooks, singer.
44-01-13	93	The Adventure of the Mischief Maker	N	44-01-13 San Mateo Times 9:30 KPO—"Adv. of Mischief Maker" solved by "Ellery Queen"
44-01-15	93	The Adventure of the Mischief Maker	Y	44-01-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Mischief Maker;" guests, Peter Cusack, executive secretary of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and Lucille Petry, director of the U.S. cadet nurse corps.
44-01-20	94	The Adventure of the Scarecrow and the Snowman	N	44-01-20 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-01-22	94	The Adventure of the Scarecrow and the Snowman	Y	44-01-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Scarecrow and the Snow Man;" guest detectives, Basil O'Connor, president of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and Gloria Swanson. Announces The Family Ghost as next
44-01-27	95	The Adventure of the Family Ghost	N	44-01-27 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-01-29	95	The Adventure of the Family Ghost	N	44-01-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Family Ghost."
44-02-03	96	The Adventure of the Murder On the Air	N	44-02-03 San Mateo Times 9:30 KPO—"Adv. of Murder on the Air" is "Ellery Queen" story
44-02-05	96	The Adventure of the Murder On the Air	N	44-02-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Murder on the Air;" Audrey Christie, actress, and Edith Head, Hollywood designer, guest arm chair detectives.
44-02-10	97	The Adventure of the Problem Child	N	44-02-10 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-02-12	97	The Adventure of the Problem Child	N	44-02-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Problem Child"; Jackie Tucker, USO hostess of Karber's Ridge, Ill., and Ben Grauer, NBC announcer, guest detectives.
44-02-17	98	The Adventure of the Squirrel Woman	N	44-02-17 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-02-19	98	The Adventure of the Squirrel Woman	N	44-02-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Squirrel Woman;" guest detectives, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., and Benay Venuta, singer.
44-02-24	99	The Adventure of the Black Jinx	N	44-02-24 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-02-26	99	The Adventure of the Black Jinx	N	44-02-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Black Jinx," Helen Menken and Eddie Dowling, guest detectives.
44-03-02	100	The Adventure of the Red Cross	N	[Special broadcast in honor of the $200M Red Cross War Drive] 44-03-02 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-03-04	100	The Adventure of the Red Cross	N	[Special broadcast in honor of the $200M Red Cross War Drive] 44-03-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): guests, Helen Hayes and Lindsay MacHarrie, American Red Cross executive; drama, "The Adventure of the Red Cross."
44-03-09	101	The Adventure of Wanted--John Smith	N	44-03-09 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-03-11	101	The Adventure of Wanted--John Smith	N	44-03-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Wanted--John Smith;" guest detectives, Irene Bordoni, musical comedy singer, and Stan Lomax, sports columnist.
44-03-16	102	The Adventure of the Circular Clues	N	44-03-16 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-"Ellery Queen" mystery entitled "Adv. of Circular Clues"
44-03-18	102	The Adventure of the Circular Clues	N	44-03-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Circular Clues;" guest detectives, Connee Boswell and Xaxier Cugat.
44-03-23	103	The Adventure of the Glass Ball	N	44-03-23 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-03-25	103	The Adventure of the Glass Ball	N	44-03-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Glass Ball;" guest detectives, Sammy Schulman, war photographer, and John Chapman, drama critic.
44-03-30	104	The Adventure of the Case Ellery Couldn't Solve	N	44-03-30 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-04-01	104	The Adventure of the Case Ellery Couldn't Solve	N	44-04-01 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Case Ellery Couldn't Solve;" guest, two members of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
44-04-06	105	The Adventure of the Painted Problem	N	44-04-06 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-04-08	105	The Adventure of the Painted Problem	N	44-04-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Painted Problems"; guest detectives, Marjorie Lawrence of Metropolitan Opera, and Milton Cross, radio announcer.
44-04-13	106	The Adventure of Dead Man's Cavern	N	44-04-13 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-04-15	106	The Adventure of Dead Man's Cavern	Y	44-04-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of Dead Men's Cavern"; guest detectives Dale Carnegie, author, and Ted Fio Rito, orchestra leader.
44-04-20	107	The Adventure of the Letters of Blood	N	44-04-20 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-04-22	107	The Adventure of the Letters of Blood	N	44-04-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Letters of Blood;" guest detectives, George McManus, cartoonist of "Maggie and Jiggs," and Peggy Fears, singer.
44-04-27	108	The Adventure of the Buried Treasure	N	44-04-27 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-04-29	108	The Adventure of the Buried Treasure	N	44-04-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Buried Treasure;" guest detectives, Mrs. Inez Gerhard, author, and Clayton Rawson, magazine editor.
44-05-04	109	The Adventure of the Thief In the Dark	N	44-05-04 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-05-06	109	The Adventure of the Thief In the Dark	N	44-05-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Thief in the Dark;" guest detectives, Robert Watson, Martin Kosleck and Alexander Pope, film actors in "The Hitler Gang."
44-05-11	110	The Adventure of the Chinese Puzzle	N	44-05-11 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-05-13	110	The Adventure of the Chinese Puzzle	N	44-05-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Chinese Puzzle;" guest detectives John J. Antrhony of Good Will Hour, and Rosemarie Lombardo, singer.
44-05-18	111	The Adventure of the Bottle of Wine	N	44-05-18 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-05-20	111	The Adventure of the Bottle of Wine	N	44-05-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Bottle of Wine;" guests, James McGurrin, commissioner of jurors, New York City, and John "String" Brice, police chief of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey circus.
44-05-25	112	The Adventure of the Great Chewing Gum Mystery	N	44-05-25 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-05-27	112	The Adventure of the Great Chewing Gum Mystery	N	44-05-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Great Chewing Gum Mystery;" Edwin S. Friendly, New York newspaper man, and Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader, guest detectives.
44-06-01	113	The Adventure of the Murder Game	N	44-06-01 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-06-03	113	The Adventure of the Murder Game	N	44-06-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Murder Game," in which mystery develops at surprise party for Ellery's secretary, Nikki Porter (Marian Shockley); guest detectives, Ben Kaplan, radio editor; and Rose Marie, singer.
44-06-08	114	The Adventure of the Dark Secret	N	44-06-08 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-06-10	114	The Adventure of the Dark Secret	N	44-06-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Dark Secret;" guest detectives, Carol Thurston, movie star, and Mrs. Geraldine Greentree, Ohio radio editor.
44-06-15	115	The Adventure of the Blue Chip	N	44-06-15 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-06-17	115	The Adventure of the Blue Chip	N	44-06-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Blue Chip," with Roland Young, guest armchair detective.
44-06-22	116	The Adventure of the Corpse In Lower Five	N	44-06-22 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-06-24	116	The Adventure of the Corpse In Lower Five	N	44-06-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Case of the Corpse in Lower 5."
44-06-29	117	The Adventure of the Devil's Head	N	44-06-29 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-07-01	117	The Adventure of the Devil's Head	N	44-07-01 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Devil's Head," with Hildegarde as guest detective.
44-07-06	118	The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb	N	44-07-06 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen 44-07-08 The Billboard Michael Whalen air-guested "Ellery Queen" (NBC), program Thursday (6)
44-07-08	118	The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb	N	44-07-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb," guest detective, Royal Arch Gunnison, foreign correspondent, recently returned after two years in Jap concentration camp.
44-07-13	119	The Adventure of the Foul Tip	N	44-07-13 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-07-15	119	The Adventure of the Foul Tip	N	44-07-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Foul Tip," with Michael Whalen, actor, as guest detective.
44-07-20	120	The Adventure of the Yang Piece	N	44-07-20 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-07-22	120	The Adventure of the Yang Piece	N	44-07-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Yang Piece;" guest detective, Col. John Stilwell, president of National Safety council.
44-07-27	121	The Adventure of the Four Prisoners	N	44-07-27 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-07-29	121	The Adventure of the Four Prisoners	N	44-07-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Four Prisoners;" guest detective, Claudia Morgan ("Nora Charles" of Thin Man program).
44-08-03	122	The Adventure of the Man Without A Heart	N	44-08-03 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-08-05	122	The Adventure of the Man Without A Heart	N	44-08-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Man Without a Heart;" guest detective, Jane Cowl, actress.
44-08-10	123	The Adventure of the Three Hands	N	44-08-10 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-08-12	123	The Adventure of the Three Hands	N	44-08-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Three Hands," sleuthed by Maj. George Fielding Eliot.
44-08-17	124	The Adventure of the Man Who Wanted Cash	N	44-08-17 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-08-19	124	The Adventure of the Man Who Wanted Cash	N	44-08-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Man Who Wanted Cash," sleuthed by Bill Stearn, sports announcer.
44-08-24	125	The Adventure of the Mayor and the Corpse	N	44-08-24 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-08-26	125	The Adventure of the Mayor and the Corpse	N	44-08-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): John Edwards, guest, "A Venture of the Mayor and the Corpse."
44-08-31	126	The Adventure of the Dead Man's Bones	N	44-08-31 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-09-02	126	The Adventure of the Dead Man's Bones	N	44-09-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Dead Man's Bones;" Fred Waring, guest detective.
44-09-07	127	The Adventure of the Disappearing Cats	N	44-09-07 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-09-09	127	The Adventure of the Disappearing Cats	N	44-09-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Disappearing Cats"; guest detective, West Peterson, detective magazine editor.
44-09-14	128	The Adventure of A College Crime	N	44-09-14 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-"Ellery Queen" in Adv. of College Crime"
44-09-16	128	The Adventure of A College Crime	N	44-09-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of a College Crime;" guest detective, Annamary Dickey, Metropolitan Opera soprano.
44-09-21	129	The Adventure of the Robber of Fallboro	N	44-09-21 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-09-23	129	The Adventure of the Robber of Fallboro	N	44-09-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of he Robber of Fallboro;" guest detective, Victor E. Chenea, vice-president of Pan American World airways.
44-09-28	130	The Adventure of the Invisible Clock	N	44-09-28 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-09-30	130	The Adventure of the Invisible Clock	N	44-09-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): Lieut. Eileen Mallon, army nurse. 44-09-30 Lima News To emphasize an appeal on his broadcast for thousands of Army nurses needed to care for mounting casualties, Ellery Queen will have an overseas veteran nurse, Lt. Eileen Mallon as his guest armchair detective for "The Adventure of the Invisible Clock," Saturday, at 6:30 p.m., EST, over WEAF. Lt. Mallon will tell why a quota of 6,000 volunteers for the Army Nurse Corps must be met by Jan. 1, to keep us the Army Medical Corps' record of saving the lives of 97% of all battle wounded treated. In the dramatization of his mystery yarn, everyone has a rockbound alibi, but Mr. Queen, ace gentleman detective, finds an unexpected answer as he solves one of his most baffling problems on the fashionable estate of a Long Island family of wealth.
44-10-05	131	The Adventure of the Cafe Society Case	N	44-10-05 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-10-07	131	The Adventure of the Cafe Society Case	N	44-10-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventures of the Café Society Case;" guest detectives, "Senator" Ed Ford, Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie, Jr., of Can You Top This program.
44-10-12	132	The Adventure of Cleopatra's Snake	N	44-10-19 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-10-14	132	The Adventure of Cleopatra's Snake	N	44-10-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of Cleopatra's Snake"; guest detective, Armand Denis, explorer.
44-10-19	133	The Adventure of the Airport Disasters	N	44-10-05 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-10-21	133	The Adventure of the Airport Disasters	N	44-10-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Airport Disasters;" guest detective, Vaughn Monroe, orchestra leader.
44-10-26	134	The Adventure of the Unfortuante Fisherman	N	44-10-26 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-10-28	134	The Adventure of the Unfortuante Fisherman	N	44-10-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Unfortunate Fisherman," with Sophie Kerr, author, as guest detective.
44-11-02	135	The Adventure of the Election Day Murder	N	44-11-02 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-11-04	135	The Adventure of the Election Day Murder	N	44-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of he Election Day Murder." 44-11-04 The Billboard HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4.--Ellery Queen, mystery seg bank-rolled by Emerson Drug (Bromo-Seltzer), bows off the air December 30 and will be replaced by The Saint, another mystery show. Package was sold by the James Saphier Agency here to McCann-Erickson ad house. It goes into the same slot (NBC, Saturday 7:30-8 pm).
44-11-09	136	The Adventure of the Booby Trap	N	44-11-09 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-11-11	136	The Adventure of the Booby Trap	N	44-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Booby Trap;" guest detectives, Ken Roberts, quizmaster of "Quick as a Flash," and Phil Baker of "Take It Or Leave It."
44-11-16	137	The Adventure of the Right End	N	44-11-16 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-11-18	137	The Adventure of the Right End	N	44-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Right End," football story; guest detective, Red Barber, sportsmaster.
44-11-23	138	The Adventure of the Thespis Club	N	44-11-23 Oakland Tribune 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-11-25	138	The Adventure of the Thespis Club	N	44-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Thespis Club," guest detective, Fannie Hurst, novelist.
44-11-30	139	The Adventure of the Glass Sword	N	44-11-30 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-12-02	139	The Adventure of the Glass Sword	N	44-12-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Glass Sword;" guest detective, Reuben Mamoulian, producer-director.
44-12-07	140	The Adventure of the Stickpin and the Ring	N	44-12-07 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-12-09	140	The Adventure of the Stickpin and the Ring	N	44-12-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Stickpin and the Ring," Ilka Chase, authoress and actress, guest detective.
44-12-14	141	The Adventure of the Death On Skates	N	44-12-14 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-12-16	141	The Adventure of the Death On Skates	N	44-12-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "The Adventure of the Death on Skates;" guest detective, Frank Graham, magazine sports editor.
44-12-21	142	The Adventure of the Toy Cannon	N	44-12-21 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-12-23	142	The Adventure of the Toy Cannon	N	44-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Toy Cannon;" Harriet Van Horne, radio editor and columnist, guest detective.
44-12-28	143	The Adventure of the Inner Circle	N	[Last NBC Program of the series; Replaced by The Saint] 44-12-28 San Mateo Times 9:30 P.M.--KPO-Ellery Queen
44-12-30	143	The Adventure of the Inner Circle	N	[Last NBC Program of the series; Replaced by The Saint] 44-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WMAQ): "Adventure of the Inner Circle;" guest detective, Luise Ranier, actress.
45-01-06	--		--	44-01-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--The Saint (WMAQ): new series based on Leslie Charteris' hero.

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Program Log -- 1945 to 1947 CBS Run
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
45-01-24	1	The Adventure of the Diamond Fence	N	[Premiere over CBS for Anacin] 45-01-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): returns on new day and network: premiere, "Adventure of the Diamond Fence;" Janet Blair, guest detective; Barbara Terrell is heard as the new Nikki Porter, secretary-assistant; Santos Ortega, Ellery's father; and Ted de Corsia as Sgt. Velie.
45-01-31	2	The Adventure of the Seven Thousand Victims	N	45-01-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventures of the 7,000 Victims;" George Givol, radio and stage star, guest detective.
45-02-07	3	The Adventure of the Lost Card	N	45-02-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Lost Card;" guest detective, Dean F. Willey, railroad executive.
45-02-14	4	The Adventure of the Wine Machine	N	45-02-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Wine Machine;" guest, Howard Blakeslee, science editor.
45-02-21	5	The Adventure of the Crime In the Snow	N	45-02-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the crime in the Snow;" Ted Husing, sportscaster, and Tim Cohane, sports editor, guest detectives.
45-02-28	6	The Adventure of the Secret Weapon	N	45-02-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventures of the Secret Weapon," story of enemy sabotage in war plant; H.W. (Tex) Roden,
45-03-07	7	The Adventure of the Rare Stamp	N	45-03-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): Dick Powell, guest detective; "The Adventure of the Rare Stamp."
45-03-14	8	The Adventure of the Poisoned Slipper	N	45-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Poisoned Slipper;" guest sleuth, Earl Wilson, Broadway columnist.
45-03-21	9	The Adventure of the Sword of Damocles	N	45-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Sword of Damocles;" guest detective, Milo Boulton, m.c. of "We, the People."
45-03-28	10	The Adventure of the Red Death	N	45-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Red Death;" Jane Wyatt, actress, guest detective.
45-04-04	11	The Adventure of the Lucky Sailor	N	45-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Lucky Sailor;" guest detective F. Beverley Kelley, publicity director for Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus.
45-04-11	12	The Adventure of the Musical Murder	N	45-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Musical Murder;" guest detective Anne Fromer, managing editor of Magazine Digest.
45-04-18	13	The Adventure of the Crime That Wasn't Possible	N	45-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Crime That Wasn't Possible;" guest detective Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions of Museum of Modern Art in New York.
45-04-25	--	Postponed	--	[Postponed until 45-05-16 in several regions] 45-04-25 Lock Haven Express Because of the President's broadcast tonight, the guest arm-chairing of Orlo Robertson, AP general sports editor, with Ellery Queen on CBS has been postponed, tentatively to May 16. 45-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Dangerous Race;" guest detective, Orlo Robertson, AP sports editor. 45-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--United Nations Conference (WIBA, WMAQ, WLS, WIBU, WGN): Speakers, Pres. Harry S. Truman, from Washington; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Earl H. Warren, governor of California; Roger C. Lapham, mayor of San Francicso 45-04-25 New York Times 7:30-8--President Truman, Others, at Opening Plenary Session, United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco--WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WMCA, WNYC, WHN, WNEW, WQXR, WBYN, WLIB, WHOM, WAAT.
45-05-02	14	The Adventure of the Key To the Mystery	N	45-05-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Key to the Mystery;" guest detective, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Miss America of 1943.
45-05-09	15	The Adventure of the Murdered Moths	N	45-05-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Murdered Moths;" guest detective, Jack Gaver, United Press columnist.
45-05-16	16	The Adventure of the Dangerous Race	N	45-05-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Dangerous Race," with Orlo Robertson, Associated Press general sports editor as guest. 45-05-16 Salamanca Republican The postponed appearance of Orlo Robertson, AP general sports editor, as guest armchair detectrve of Ellery Queen, comes up at 7:30 this evening on CBS 45-05-16 Lowell Sun ELLERY QUEEN mystery: "The Dangerous Race;" Orlo Robertson AP sports editor, guest--WBZ 7:30to 8.
45-05-23	17	The Adventure of the Man In the Pillbox	N	45-05-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Man in the Pillbox," guest detective, Ted R. Gamble, national director, war finance division of U.S. treasury department.
45-05-30	18	The Adventure of the Runaway Husband	N	45-05-29 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Runaway Husband;" guest detective, James Montgomery Flagg.
45-06-06	19	The Adventure of the Iron Woman	N	45-06-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Iron Woman;" guest detective, Annamary Dickey, Metropolitan Opera star.
45-06-13	20	The Adventure of the Corpse of Mr Entwhistle	N	45-06-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Corpse of Mr. Entwhistle;" Gladys Swarthout, guest detective.
45-06-20	21	The Adventure of the Absent Automatic	N	45-06-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Absent Automatic;" guest detective, Col. Joseph S. Snyder, executive officer, Camp Kilmer of New York Port of Debarkation.
45-06-27	22	The Adventure of Mr One and Mr Two	N	45-06-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventures of Mr. One and Mr. Two;" guest detective Bennett Cerf, author and publisher.
45-07-04	23	The Adventure of Nikki's Rich Uncle	N	45-07-03 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of Nikki's Rich Uncle."
45-07-11	24	The Adventure of the Shipyard Racket	N	45-07-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Shipyard Racket;" guest detective George Lait, war correspondent.
45-07-18	25	The Adventure of the Gentleman Burglar	N	45-07-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Gentleman Burglar"; guest detectives, Wendy Barrie and Fred Uttal.
45-07-25	26	The Adventure of the Torture Victim	N	45-07-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure With the Torture Victim"; guest detective Julie Gibson, screen starlet.
45-08-01	27	The Adventure of Nick-the-Knife	N	45-08-01 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of Nick-the-Knife," Gertrude Niesen, guest detective. Mason City Globe-Gazette GERTRUDE NIESEN, currently starring in the Broadway musical "Follow the Girls," will be the guest armchair detective for the Ellery Queen mystery, "The Adventure of Nick-the-Knife," over the Columbia network, Wednesday, Aug. 1, (KGLO-CBS, 6:30 p. m.) In the hair-raising tale Inspector Queen and his winsome secretary Nikki Porter set out to track down a mysterious killer who disfigures the faces of pretty young girls. Santos Ortega plays the role of Inspector Queen; Gertrude Warner is Nikki, and Ted de Corsia has the role of Sergeant Tom Velie.
45-08-08	28	The Adventure of the Clue In C Major	N	45-08-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Clue in C Major;" Actress Evelyn Keyes, guest detective.
45-08-15	29	The Adventure of the Time of Death	N	45-08-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): Actress Sally Eilers guest detective in "Adventure of the Time of Death."
45-08-22	30	The Adventure of the Man Who Was Afraid	N	45-08-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Man Who Was Afraid;" guest detective, Capt. Charles S. Vaughn, Pan American Clipper pilot.
45-08-29	31	The Adventure of the Green House	N	45-08-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Green House;" guest detective, Evelyn Wyckoff, singing star of "Oklahoma."
45-09-05	32	The Adventure of the Man Who Was Afraid	N	45-09-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Man Who Was Afraid;" guest detective, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein of N.Y. Court of General Sessions, Republican candidate for mayor of New York.
45-09-12	33	The Adventure of the Blue Egg	N	45-09-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Blue Egg," guest detective, Virginia MacWatters, musical comedy star.
45-09-19	34	The Adventure of the Lost Soul	N	45-09-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Lost Soul;" guest detective, Shep Fields, bandleader, just returned from tour of Germany and France.
45-09-26	35	The Adventure of the Green House	N	45-09-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Green House;" guest detective, George V. Denny, Jr., president of Town Hall, N.Y.
45-10-03	36	The Adventure of Ellery Queen, Cupid	N	45-10-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of Ellery Queen - Cupid;" guest, "Aunt Jenny," of "Real Life Stories" program.
45-10-10	37	The Adventure of the Kid Glove Killer	N	45-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Kid Glove Killer," with Eddie Dowling, as guest detective.
45-10-17	38	The Adventure of the Other Man	N	45-10-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Other Man;" guest detective, Jan Clayton, singer.
45-10-24	39	The Adventure of the Repentant Thief	N	45-10-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Repentant Thief;" guest detective, Comdr. Henry H. Hale, skipper of aircraft carrier Franklin.
45-10-31	40	The Adventure of the Halloween Murder	N	45-10-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Halloween Murder," with Edeward Everett Horton as guest detective.
45-11-07	41	The Adventure of the Message In Red	Y	45-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Message in Red;" Victory Jory, guest detective. Announces The Adventure of The Happy Marriage as next
45-11-14	42	The Adventure of the Happy Marriage	N	45-11-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin (Mr. And Mrs. North) guest detectives for "The Adventure of the Happy Marriage."
45-11-21	43	The Adventure of the Ape's Boss	N	45-11-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Ape's Boss;" guest detective, Eleanor Steber, Metropolitan Opera star.
45-11-28	44	The Adventure of the Doodle of Mr Drew	N	45-11-28 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Doodle of Mr. Drew."
45-12-05	45	The Adventure of the Peddler of Death	N	45-12-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Peddler of Death;" guest detective, Helen Hayes.
45-12-12	46	The Adventure of the Man With Two Faces	N	45-12-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Man With Two Faces;" guest detective Maj. Gen. Emmanuel E. Lombard, retired French liaison officer for Gen. DeGaulle and Gen. Eisenhower.
45-12-19	47	The Adventure of the Curious Thefts	N	45-12-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Curious Thefts;" guest detective Ralph Morgan, actor.
45-12-26	48	The Adventure of the Man Who Loved Murders	N	45-12-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Man Who Loved Murders;" guest detective, Jean Sablon, French singer.
46-01-02	49	The Adventure of the Lost Hoard	N	46-01-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Lost Hoard;" guest detective, Saul Pett, radio columnist.
46-01-09	50	The Adventure of the Various Deaths of Mr Frayne	N	46-01-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Various Deaths of Mr. Frayne;" guest detective, Arthur Godfrey.
46-01-16	51	The Adventure of the Green Eye	N	46-01-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Green Eye;" guest detective, Morgan Conway, who plays role of Dick Tracy in the movies.
46-01-23	52	The Adventure of the Lovely Racketeer	N	46-01-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Lovely Racketeer;" guest detective, James L. Cox, American inventor and holder of NAM Pioneer Award for his work on lighting.
46-01-30	53	The Adventure of Ellery Queen's Tragedy	N	46-01-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of Ellery Queen's Tragedy."
46-02-06	54	The Adventure of the Fifteenth Floor	N	46-02-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Fifteenth Floor;" guest, Marjorie Rambeau.
46-02-13	55	The Adventure of the Living Dead	N	46-02-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Living Dead;" guest detective, Belita, dancing-skating star.
46-02-20	56	The Adventure of the Three Fencers	N	46-02-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): guest detective, Willie Mosconi, world picket billiards champion; "Adventure of the Three Fencers."
46-02-27	57	The Adventure of the Ninth Mrs Pook	N	46-02-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Ninth Mrs. Pook;" guest detective, Craig Rice, mystery writer.
46-03-06	58	The Adventure of the Phantom Shadow	N	46-03-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Phantom Shadow;" guest detective, Alfred Eichler, mystery story writer.
46-03-13	59	The Adventure of the Clue of the Elephant	N	46-03-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Clue of the Elephant;" guest detective, Betty Forsling, radio editor of Newsweek.
46-03-20	60	The Adventure of the Man Who Waited	N	46-03-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Man Who Waited;" guests, Orson Welles.
46-03-27	61	The Adventure of the Armchair Detective	N	46-03-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Armchair Detective."
46-04-03	62	The Adventure of the Death Wish	N	46-04-03 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Death Wish;" guest detective, Con Colleano, acrobat wire star.
46-04-10	63	The Adventure of the Girl Who Couldn't Get Married	N	46-04-10 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Girl Who Couldn't Get Married;" Carolyn Rolland, editor of magazine, "Seventeen," guest detective.
46-04-17	64	The Adventure of Nikki Porter	N	46-04-17 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of Nikki Porter;" six Goldwyn girls serve as armchair detectives.
46-04-24	65	The Adventure of the Man Who Bought One Grape	N	46-04-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Man Who Bought One Grape;" guest detective, James Markham, attorney, of Houston, Tex.
46-05-01	66	The Adventure of the Rhubarb Solution	N	46-04-30 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Rhubarb Solution;" guest detective, Joan Edwards, singer.
46-05-08	67	The Adventure of the Nine-Mile Clue	N	46-05-07 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Nine-Mile Clue," with Red Barber as guest detective.
46-05-15	68	The Adventure of the Crime In Darkness	N	46-05-14 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Crime in Darkness;" guest detective, Vernon Pope, editor of Pageant magazine.
46-05-22	69	The Adventure of the Hollywood Murder Case	N	46-05-21 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Hollywood Murder case," with Lucille Ball as guest detective.
46-05-29	70	The Adventure of the Laughing Woman	N	46-05-28 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Laughing Woman;" guest detective, Francis Lederer of stage and screen.
46-06-05	71	The Adventure of Mr Warren's Profession	N	46-06-04 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of Mr. Warren's Profession;" guest detective, Dorothy Dunn, guest editor of Charm magazine.
46-06-12	72	The Adventure of the Great Spy Puzzle	N	46-06-11 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): guest detective, John Reed King, quizmaster; "The Adventure of the Great Spy Puzzle."
46-06-19	73	The Adventure of Cokey and the Pizza	N	46-06-18 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Cokey and the Pizza," guest detective, Elsa Miranda, singer.
46-06-26	74	The Adventure of the Devil Die	N	46-06-25 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventures of the Devil Die;" guest detective Dolores Moran, movie actress.
46-07-03	75	The Adventure of the War Bride	N	46-07-02 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the War Bride;" guest detective, Dolores Morgan, film actress.
46-07-10	76	The Adventure of the Confidential Agent	N	46-07-09 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Confidential Agent;" guest detective, Wallace C. Siple, Canadian flying ace and trail blazer of world's first overseas freight route for RAF Ferry Command.
46-07-17	77	The Adventure of the Ultra-Modern Murder	N	46-07-16 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Ultra-Modern Murder;" guest detective, Alan Baxter, leading man of "Voice of the Turtle."
46-07-24	78	The Adventure of the Golden Key	N	46-07-23 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Golden Key;" guest detective, Ben Hecht.
46-07-31	79	The Adventure of the Man Who Got Away With Murder	N	46-07-30 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Man Who Got Away With Murder;" guest detective, Ray Bolger.
46-08-07	80	The Adventure of the First Night	N	46-08-06 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the First Night;" guest detective, Milton Berle.
46-08-14	81	The Adventure of Bis and Cal	N	46-08-14 New York Times 7:30-WABC--Adventures of Ellery Queen. 46-08-14 Chicago Daily Tribune 6:30 p.m.--WBBM--Ellery Queen: "Adventure of Bis and Cal."
46-08-21	82	The Adventure of the Gymnasium Murder	N	46-08-20 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Gymnasium Murder;" Parks Johnson and Warren Hull, guests.
46-08-28	83	The Adventure of the Doomed Man	N	46-08-27 Wisconsin State Journal - Wednesday 5:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Doomed Man;" guest detective, Marsha Hunt.
46-09-04	--		--	46-09-04 New York Times 7:30-WABC--Mark Warnow Show

46-10-09	84	The Adventure of Ellery Queen--Criminal	N	46-10-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): returns with Jean Sablon, French singer, as first guest detective. 46-10-09 New York Times 7:30-WABC--Adventures of Ellery Queen: Criminal.
46-10-16	--	Pre-Empted	--	46-10-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Woman Who Died Several Times;" guest detective, John Carradine, film star. 46-10-16 New York Times 7:30-WABC--Nuremberg Trial Drama: The Empty Noose. 46-10-16 The Lima News John Carradine, long, slim leading heavy of the screen, currently on Broadway in the historical drama, "The Duchess of Malfi," will put his deductive powers to the test as armchair detective for Ellery Queen in "The Adventure of the Woman Who Died Several Times" at 7:30 p. m. over CBS.
46-10-23	85	The Adventure of the Woman Who Died Several Times	N	46-10-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): postponed drama, "The Woman Who Died Several Times," with John Carradine as guest detective. 46-10-23 New York Times 7:30-WABC--Adventures of Ellery Queen: John Carradine, Guest. 46-10-23 The Chester Times Richard Arlen, screen star, will lend a hand to Ellery Queen as armchair detective, on the "Adventure of the Prize Fighter's Birthday," when the fcntienian detective unravels an amazing ring mystery. 7.30 p. m., KYW 46-10-23 Olean Times-Herald WABC (CBS)--7:30--Ellery Queen: John Carridine
46-10-30	86	The Adventure of Ellery Queen's Rival	N	46-10-30 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of Ellery Queen's Rival;" guest, Rear Admiral H.B. Miller, retired, navy wartime director of public information.
46-11-06	87	The Adventure of the Crime of Inspector Queen	N	46-11-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Crime of Inspector Queen," with Paul Douglas, Broadway star, as guest detective.
46-11-13	88	The Adventure of the Uneasy Voyage	N	46-11-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Uneasy Voyage."
46-11-20	89	The Adventure of the Prize Fighter's Birthday	N	46-11-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Prize Fighter's Birthday." 46-11-20 The Chester Times Ellery Queen is trying an experiment which will extend the scope of his murder mystery series. Beginning tonight, he will reach out all over the United States, by long distance phone, to call on listeners for their solutions. The voices of the guest will not be heard on the air, but his reported solution will be given, and then compared to Queen's solution. "The Adventure of the Prizefighter's Birthday" is tonight's thriller, broadcast over WCAU at 7:30
46-11-27	90	The Adventure of Ellery Queen--Blackmail Victim	N	46-11-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Ellery Queen--Blackmail Victim."
46-12-04	91	The Adventure of Ellery Queen--Gigolo	N	46-12-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Ellery Queen--Gigolo."
46-12-11	92	The Adventure of the Old Man's Darling	N	46-12-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Old Man's Darling."
46-12-18	93	The Adventure of A Hurricane That Committed A Murder	N	46-12-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of a Hurricane That Committed a Murder."
46-12-25	94	The Adventure of Ellery Queen, Santa Clause	N	[Christmas Program] 46-12-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Ellery Queen, Santa Claus."
47-01-01	95	The Adventure of the Unhappy New Year	N	47-01-01 New York Times 7:30-WCBS--Adventures of Ellery Queen
47-01-08	96	The Adventure of the Man Who Could Vanish	N	47-01-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Man Who Could Vanish."
47-01-15	97	The Adventure of the Lollipop Murders	N	47-01-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Lollypop Murders."
47-01-22	98	The Adventure of Queen Solomon	N	47-01-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of Queen Solomon."
47-01-29	99	The Adventure Of The Stone Age Detective	N	47-01-29 New York Times 7:30-WCBS--Adventures of Ellery Queen
47-02-05	100	The Adventure of the Hunted House	N	47-02-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Hunted House," with Victor Jory as guest detective.
47-02-12	101	The Adventure of the Green Gorillas	N	47-02-12 New York Times 7:30-WCBS--Adventures of Ellery Queen 47-02-12 Olean Times WCBS--7:30--Ellery Queen: Jose Ferrer, guest 47-02-12 The Canton Repository "Adventures of Ellery Queen" at 7:30 (CBS): Jose Ferrer, producer and star of Broadway's "Cyrano de Bergerac" will attempt to solve the "Adventure of the Green Gorillas" when he is guest armchair-detective.
47-02-19	102	The Adventure of the Big Brain	N	47-02-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Big Brain;" guest, Jean Parker, actress.
47-02-26	103	The Adventures of the Strange Death of Mr. Entricson	N	47-02-26 New York Times 7:30-WCBS--Adventures of Ellery Queen 47-02-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p. m. — Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Strange Death of Mr, Entricson;" guest, June Knight.
47-03-05	104	The Adventure of Nikki Porter--Killer	N	47-03-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Nikki Porter--Killer;" guest detective Alfred Draka, Broadway musical star.
47-03-12	105	The Adventure of the Crooked Man	N	47-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "Adventure of the Crooked Man;" guests, Parks Johnson and Warren Hull, of Vox Pop program.
47-03-19	106	The Adventure of the Specialist In Cops	N	47-03-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Specialist in Cops;" armchair detective, Bela Lugosi.
47-03-26	107	The Adventure of the Ten Thousand Dollar Bill	N	47-03-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill," with June Knight, actress, as guest detective.
47-04-02	108	The Adventure of the Man Who Murdered A City	N	47-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Man Who Murdered a City."
47-04-09	109	The Adventure of the Big Fix	N	47-04-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Big Fix," guest detective, Tom Torsey, American Indian artist at N.Y. Museum of Natural History, known in his Onondage tribe as "Two Arrows."
47-04-16	110	The Adventure of the Redhead-Blonde-Brunette	N	47-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WBBM): "The Adventure of the Redhead-Blonde-Brunette" with three husbands; Arthur Godfrey, guest detective.
47-04-23	--		--	47-04-23 New York Times 7:30-WCBS--Romance: There's Always Juliet; With Judith Evelyn and Karl Swenson. 47-05-24 The Billboard NEW YORK, May 24.--Three renewals for half-hour periods on the full network were racked up this week by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Two of the three nighttime shows were re-pacted by Procter & Gamble. Thru Benton & Bowles, the soap company has signed again for the 8 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday period, currently housing Life of Riley. The Compton agency renewd the following half hour for Truth or Consequences. Whitehall Pharmacal, thru Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles, has renewed the 6:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday period, on which Ellery Queen is slated to replace the Bob Burns Show June 1.

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Program Log -- 1947 NBC Run
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
47-06-01	1	The Case of the Green Gorillas	N	[Replaces NBC's Bob Burns Show] 47-05-08 Oakland Tribune Q—In what cities do the radio programs, "Captain Midnight" and "Ellery Queen'' originate? A—Both programs originate in New York 47-06-01 Wisconsin State Journal 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): new series; "The Case of the Green Gorillas," story of youthful hoodlums.
47-06-08	2	The Case of the Sky Pirates	N	47-06-08 Wisconsin State Journal 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): "The Case of the Sky Pilot." 47-06-07 Findlay Republican NBC's 5:30 p. m. Sunday "Ellery Queen" drama will be "Sky Pirates" with Flight Captain C. T. Robertson as armchair detective .
47-06-15	--		--	47-06-14 The Billboard NBC's "Ellery Q" Vamps Till Ready NEW YORK, June 7.--Unusual hiatus plan goes into effect after tomorrow for Ellery Queen, which is sponsored by Whitehall Pharmacal Company over National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Sundays at 6:30 p.m. Queen mystery series just started June 1, but after two broadcasts is skedded to take a seven-week layoff. Filling in between June 15 and July 27 will be Varieties, a musical program featuring Joe Gallicchio's orchestra with vocalists Jack Haskell and Vivian Martin. Agency is Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles.
47-08-03	3	The Case of the Atomic Murder	N	47-08-03 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): returns to the air; "The Case of the Atomic Murder."
47-08-10	4	The Case of The Foolish Girls	N	47-08-10 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): "The Foolish Girls," guest, Marion Bell, Singing Star of "Brigadoon."
47-08-17	5	The Case of Murder for Americans	N	47-08-17 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): Patrice Munsel, guest detective.
47-08-24	6	The Case of the Rats Who Walked Like Men	N	47-08-24 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): "The Rats Who Walked Like Men."
47-08-31	7	The Case of The King's Horse	N	47-08-31 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): a king is murdered.
47-09-07	8	The Case of Number Thirty-One	Y	47-09-07 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): the figure "31" solves a murder-and-smuggling case. Announces Tragedy In Blue as next
47-09-14	9	The Case of Tragedy In Blue	N	47-09-14 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): radio singers meet jealous figure from the past; Jean Sablon, guest.
47-09-21	10	The Case of the Man Who Squared the Circle	N	47-09-21 Wisconsin State Journal - 4:30 p.m.--Ellery Queen (WIBA): "The Man Who Squared the Circle;" Vox-Poppers Parks Johnson and Warren Hull, guests.
47-09-28	--		--

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Program Log -- 1947 ABC Run
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
47-11-27	1	The Saga of Ruffy Rux	Y	[ABC Premiere -- from KECA Studios, Hollywood--sustained; Larry Dobkin as Ellery Queen and Virginia Gregg as Nikki Porter. Herb Butterfield as Queen's father and Alan Reed as Sgt. Velie; scratchy recording] 47-11-10 Portland Press Herald Still on the subject of whodunits, Ellery Queen has been signed by ABC and will debut Thursday, Nov. 27 at 7.30 p. m., est. Formerly a New York organization, it will emanate from Hollywood as of that date and we're wondering if the original "Ellery," Carleton Young, who moved tothe Coast aeveral years ago won't turn up in the lead, role: T'would be logical we think. 47-11-23 Amarillo News-Globe Ellery Queen starts new series of whodunits on KFDA-ABC Thursday evening at 6:30. 47-11-26 Sandusky Register Star Also for Thursday: ABC 7:30 p.m. Ellery Queen mystery, formerly CBS and NBC, in a new series. 47-11-27 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama Announces The Curious Case of The Man in the Street as next
47-12-04	2	The Case of The Man In the Street	Y	47-12-04 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama Announces Nikki Porter, Bride as next
47-12-11	3	Nikki Porter, Bride	N	47-12-11 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama 47-12-11 Hutchinson New Herald 6:30 p.m.--KFBI--Ellery Queen Nikki Porter, Bride
47-12-18	4	The Modern-Day Hamlet	N	47-12-18 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama 47-12-18 Long Beach Press-Telegram 7:00—KECA—-A Hamlet In modern dress is saved from murder by "Ellery Queen." The editor of Pic Magazine, Dick Williams, is guest armchair detective
47-12-25	5	Ellery Queen, Santa Clause	N	[Christmas Program] 47-12-25 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama
48-01-01	6	Title Unknown	N	48-01-01 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama 48-01-04 Amarillo News-Globe PROGRAM PALAYER: An Ellery Queen whodunit is revived for Ford Theater, KGNC-NBC, when "The Adventures of the Bad Boy" is heard at 4 this afternoon.
48-01-08	7	The Head Hunter	N	48-01-08 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama 48-01-08 Oakland Tribune The case of "The Head Hunter" confronts Ellery Queen at 7 tonight (KGO), and sitting in as guest armchair detective will be Alyce Canfield, magazine writer
48-01-15	8	The Terrified Man	N	48-01-15 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama 48-01-15 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p. m. presents a case that has only one character—and he is murdered. Armchair detectives should have a high time with this one.
48-01-22	9	The Case of the Groznian Ex-Premier	N	48-01-22 New York Times 7:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen--Mystery Drama: Guest--Henry Morgan 48-01-22 Morning Herald In view of the fact that Henry Morgan is to occupy the time from next week on under the guidance of a new buying iponsor, ABC figured it would be the right thing to let Henry do a little of armchair detecting for Ellery Queen at 7:30. Ellery will go on the air later in a general turnover of the Thursday night ABC list 48-01-22 Rockford Register Republic Henry (Here's) Morgan will try to outguess Ellery Queen on his WROK-ABC broadcast this evening at 6:30. Tonight's mystery is titled "The Case of the Groznian Ex-Premier."
48-01-29	10	Death House	N	[Moves to 8:30pm] 48-01-29 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Erskine Johnson, Guest.
48-02-05	11	Bubsy	N	48-02-05 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest, Buddy Rogers 48-02-05 Oakland Tribune 7:00 KECA--Buddy Rogers is guest armchair detective on the fine mystery drama "Ellery Queen"
48-02-12	12	A Question of Color	N	48-02-12 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest, Edith Gwynn
48-02-19	13	The Old Sinner	N	48-02-19 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest, Virginia MacPherson 48-02-19 Council Bluffs Nonpareil 7:00 p. m.—Meet the black sheep, Uncle Burt, in "Ellery Queen"
48-02-26	14	The Blue Egg	N	48-02-26 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery 48-02-26 Oakland Tribune ...could tune in Ellery Queen at 7 to hear the case of "The Blue Egg"...
48-03-04	15	The Human Weapon	N	48-03-04 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Joan Barton 48-03-04 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p.m. has Joan Barton as ''Armchair Detective." The mystery unravelled by Ellery is called "The Human Weapon," packed with suspense and drama.
48-03-11	16	The Lynching of Mr. Cue	N	48-03-11 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Kirk Douglas
48-03-18	17	The Armchair Detective	Y	48-03-18 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Sheila Graham 48-03-17 Oakland Tribune Thursday note: Here ace two KGO program time changes for tomorrow night "The Clock," now produced each week by William Spier, shifts to 8:30 p.m. and "Candid Microphone" advances to 9:30 p.m. because of daylight saving time. "Ellery Queen" (7 p.m.), Henry Morgan (7:30 p.m.) and "Willie Piper" (8 p.m.) are in the same order as before. Announces The Farmer's Daughter as next
48-03-25	18	The Farmer's Daughter	N	48-03-25 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest, Agnes Moorehead
48-04-01	19	The Man Who Wasn't There	N	48-04-01 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest, Arlyne Rogers 48-04-01 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p. m. is confronted with the program of "the man who wasn't there." He eventually finds him, however. Good old Ellery. The guest armchair detective will be Miss Arlyne Rogers, recently named "America's Champion Movie Fan."
48-04-08	20	The Sad Case of Joe Manx The K. I. Case	N	48-04-08 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Jimmy Starr 48-04-08 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p.m will tell the sad case of Joe Manx, who thought he was smart enough to beat the law but runs into Ellery and meets his Waterloo. The guest armchair detective of the evening will be Jimmy Starr, movie columnist for the Los Angeles Herald-Express.
48-04-15	21	The Splicer	N	48-04-15 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery 48-04-14 Huronite and Plainsman Thursday Programs--ABC--7) Ellery Queen with Gene Handsaker as Armchair Guest 48-04-16 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p. m. goes all out for murder in his atory of "The Splicer." 19 corpses are counted before Ellery catches the right man. Guest armchair detective will be Gene Handsaker, Associated Press newsman.
48-04-22	22	Murder By Installments	N	48-04-22 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Mel Blanc 48-04-22 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p. in. has a story titled "Murder By Installments." Francis X. Bushman, the one-time matinee idol, w i l l be featured in the role of an elderly man who is murdered. Armchair detective is Mel Blanc. Blanc plays August Moon on "Point Sublime" each Monday at 8 p.m.
48-04-29	23	The Three Frogs	Y	48-04-29 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Miss Florabel Muir Announces One Diamond as next
48-05-06	24	One Diamond	Y	48-05-06 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Peggy Lee 48-05-06 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN guest at 7 p.m. is Peggy Lee. The lovely chanteuse is the Armchair Detective 'who will attempt to solve the mystery'story told by the famous detective Queen. Announces Nikki Porter, Starlet as next
48-05-13	25	Nikki Porter, Starlet	N	48-05-13 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Harvey Fischman
48-05-20	26	Misery Mike	N	48-05-20 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Cliff Arquette 48-05-20 Nevada State Journal ELLERY QUEEN at 7 p.m. goes after an accordion-playing racketeer called "Misery Mike." Before he can solve the situation, Ellery is forced to disguise his secretary, Nikki Porter, as a famous European opera singer. Cliff Arquette, the "Ben Willet" of "Point Sublime," is guest armchair detective
48-05-27	27	Mr. Gregory Snye	N	48-05-27 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Ellery Queen Mystery: Guest--Sam Abbott 48-05-27 Rockford Register Republic The Ellery Queen mystery on WROK-ABC at 8:30 tonight is titled "Mr. Gregory Snye," an unpleasant kind of character who sows death wherever he goes.
48-06-03	--		--	48-06-03 New York Times 8:30-WJZ--Criminal Casebook Drama (Premiere)

AFRS 'Ellery Queen' Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
		The Adventure of Dead Man's Cavern	Y
		The Foul Tip	Y

AFRS Mystery Playhouse 'Ellery Queen' Episodes Program Log
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
		Ellery Queen - Nick the Knife	Y
		Ellery Queen - The Clue in C Major	Y

The Adventures of Ellery Queen Radio Program Biographies

Carleton G. Young (Ellery Queen) Stage, Screen, Radio and Television actor (1907-1971) Birthplace: Fulton, New York, U.S.A. Radiography: 1937 Columbia Workshop 1937 On Broadway 1938 Silver Theatre 1940 George E. Sokolsky 1940 Great Plays 1941 Lincoln Highway 1942 This Is Our Enemy 1943 The Adventures Of Ellery Queen 1943 Treasury Star Parade 1943 Cavalcade For Victory 1943 Cavalcade Of America 1945 Arch Oboler's Plays 1945 Hollywood Mystery Time 1946 Strange Wills 1946 Hollywood Star Time 1948 Lux Radio Theatre 1949 Screen Director's Playhouse 1949 This Is Your FBI 1949 Family Theaatre 1949 The Count of Monte Cristo 1950 Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1951 This Is Our Heritage 1951 Hallmark Playhosue 1951 Hollywood Star Playhouse 1951 The Man Called X 1951 The Whisperer 1951 The Railroad Hour 1952 The Pendleton Story 1952 Hollywood Sound Stage 1952 Stars In the Air 1952 The Roy Rogers Show 1954 The Six-Shooter 1955 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Duel of Destiny	Carleton Young, ca. 1939 Our Gal Sunday article from 37-07-11 with Carleton Young and Dorothy Lowell Carleton G. Young, ca. 1953 Carleton G. Young, ca. 1958	Carleton G. Young was one of Radio's most successful and busy actors for over twenty years--and some 8,000 to 10,000 appearances in Radio. Destined to be forever confused with or mistaken for Carleton Scott Young another successful Film, Stage, Radio and Television actor, Carleton G. Young nevertheless clearly set himself apart in both Radio and Television. Both possessed of very distinctive deep baritone voices, the confusion between the two Carleton Youngs is perhaps forgiveable, and yet there are several notable differences in their repsective careers that certainly set them on separate paths. For one, Carleton G. Young's physical appearance was more polished and clean cut than the Film actor Carleton Young. The Film actor was more a character actor. Carleton G. Young was certainly star material, and indeed played the lead in several Radio programs during his 20-year career in Radio. His most vocal fans would probably cite his year-long portrayal of Ellery Queen (1943), a Radio program that's taken on almost cult status and which remains very rare to this day. Others might cite his nine-year portrayal as the Count of Monte Cristo in the Radio program of the same name (1949). Still others might more animatedly recall his long running appearance as John Galt in Radio's The Whisperer (1951) another Radio cult favorite of tens of thousands of Radio fans. He also played the lead role of Producer-Director Ted Lawton in some thirty-nine episodes of Hollywood Mystery Time (1945). Carleton G. Young's truest fans will recall his extensive body of work spanning some 350+ separate Radio productions over his Radio career. During that time, Carleton Young lent his amazing voice to every dramatic Radio format imaginable, portraying a bewildering array of characters with equal ease. From detective dramas to adventures to straight dramatic roles to even the over-the-top melodrama of his role as Philip Galt, The Whisperer, Carleton Young's unmistakeable diction, polished delivery, and highly distinctive baritone promised a Radio adventure to remember, and he never failed to deliver on that promise. Indeed as Radio's Golden Age waned, Carleton G. Young made a smooth transition to The Golden Years of Television with equal aplomb. From Television's earliest Superman adventures through fifteen years of significant contributions to Television's wonderful Drama anthologies, Carleton G. Young was one of those male actors blessed with both the looks and air of a more and more distiguished gentleman the more he physically aged. Adding another 200+ appearances to his Television resume, Carleton G. Young's Stage, Screen, Radio and Television career ultimately spanned over forty-five years before passed on the Acting baton to his son Tony Young, another distinguished Film and Television actor in his own right. Carleton G. Young passed away in 1971 at the age of 64, but not before seeing his own son embark onto a versatile, successful Entertainment career of his own. A fitting postscript to the life of an actor who met every new role and every new challenge with equal excellence. The Golden Age of Radio may have waned, but interest in Carelton G. Young's body of work over Radio is as intense as it's ever been. A fitting and well-deserved tribute to one of Radio's most memorable--and durable--voices.

Edward Gildea 'Ted' De Corsia (Sergeant Velie) Stage, Screen, Radio, and Television Actor (1905-1973) Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Radiography: 1934 Time Marches On 1939 Cavalcade Of America 1939 The Shadow 1939 What's My Name? 1940 Columbia Workshop 1941 Joe and Mabel 1941 Great Plays 1942 Suspense 1943 The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1943 Treasury Star Parade 1944 Columbia Presents Corwin 1945 Treasury Salute 1946 McGarry and His Mouse 1947 Theatre Guild On the Air 1947 Crime Club 1947 Casey, Crime Photographer 1948 Cavalcade of America 1948 Ford Theatre 1948 Gang Busters 1948 The Big Story 1948 Inner Sanctum 1949 My Favorite Husband 1949 Pat Novak, For Hire 1949 Let George Do It 1949 The Whistler 1949 This Is Your FBI 1949 Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1949 Lux Radio Theatre 1949 Escape 1950 T-Man 1950 Pursuit 1950 Famiy Theatre 1950 Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 1950 The Adventures Of Christopher London 1950 Hallmark Playhouse 1950 Night Beat 1950 Screen Director's Playhouse 1950 The Adventures of Maisie 1950 Mr President 1951 The Adventures Of the Saint 1951 The Line-Up 1951 The Silent Men 1952 The Pendleton Story 1952 The Railroad Hour 1952 Wild Bill Hickok 1952 Errand Of Mercy 1952 Guest Star 1952 That Hammer Guy 1953 Stars Over Hollywood 1953 Hallmark Hall of Fame 1953 Dangerous Assignment 1953 Romance 1954 The Six Shooter 1954 Crime Classics 1954 Broadway Is My Beat 1955 You Were THere 1955 The Lone Ranger 1955 The Adventure of Captain Courage 1955 The Freedom Story 1955 By the People 1957 CBS Radio Workshop 1958 Frontier Gentleman	Ted De Corsia circa 1955 Ted De Corsia (far left) appears with Harry Von Zell as one of the ensemble actors for Time Marches On! (1934)	From the April 12, 1973 Edition of the Long Beach Press-Telegram: Villain actor Ted De Corsia dies Character actor TED De CORSIA, whose career included stints in radio, motion pictures and television died Wednesday at 69 in Encino. Death was attributed to natural causes. Known best for his portrayals of villains, the veteran actor held radio series roles in March of Time, Ellery Queen and the Hallmark Theater. His movie credits include roles in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Naked City," "Lady From Shanghai," "The Outriders" and "Folsom Prison." De Corsia played Mike Hammer in the 1950s in the "Mickey Spillane Mysteries" television series. He is survived by two daughters, DIERDRE De CORSIA of San Francisco and MRS. WILLIAM SHIRK of Santa Barbara. We remain huge fans of Ted De Corsia's body of work over the years. We'd even take issue with the above obituary's characterization of Ted De Corsia as a 'Villain'. Though most of his Film credits were indeed as mostly heavies, we found the greater majority of De Corsia's Radio and Television work to be a wonderfully diverse mixture of characterizations. If we have any regrets over Ted De Corsia's myriad characterizations, it's that he didn't appear in more series' as the lead. He certainly had the voice, talent and presence to command more leading roles. In all likelihood he was simply a victim of his own remakable success in portraying literally thousands of heavies or other gruff, blustering stereotypes over his long and distinquished career. Ted De Corsia had lead roles as Detective Dan McGarry in McGarry and His Mouse (1946), as Inspector Peter Black in Pursuit! (1950), as Mike Hammer in That Hammer Guy (1952) and as Captain Christopher Courage in The Adventure of Captain Courage (1955). De Corsia's performances over both Radio and Television remain our overall favorites. Ruggedly handsome and imposing, when his millions of Radio fans finally got the opportunity to 'see' his visage in Television the voice clearly matched the 'presence.' We've highlighted his work in many of our other articles, including 26 by Corwin, The Adventures of Maisie, Bold Venture, Boston Blackie, Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop, Christopher London, Dr. Kildare, Escape!, Frontier Gentleman, Great Plays, Hallmark Playhouse, Let George Do It, Line Up, Molle Mystery Theater, Murder Clinic, Mystery In the Air, Night Beat, Pat Novak for Hire, Pursuit, Richard Diamond, Rogues Gallery, Secret Agent K-7 Returns, The Silent Men, T-Man, That Hammer Guy, and The Saint. Ted De Corsia had one of those voices that remain almost instantly recognizable, much in the vein of Jackson Beck, Raymond Burr, Robert Strauss, Bill Conrad, Marvin Miller, and Paul Frees. The type of 'register' that invariably gets the woofer vibrating well beyond the norm in anyone's home theater system. With that barrel chest, those piercing eyes, hands like hamhocks, and a neck like an ox, Ted De Corsia's presence in any medium always made itself known. A life-long Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Ted De Corsia even went as far as to ask the announcer of one of his regular programs--Joe and Mabel (1941)--to announce on air The Bums' scores during relevant performances. During the New York broadcasts of The Adventures of Ellery Queen, Ted De Corsia owned a poultry farm near New York, often selling his eggs to other members of the Ellery Queen cast and production crew.

Ernest Chappell (Host,Performer, Narrator, Spokesperson) Radio Director, Actor, Announcer, Producer; Journalist (1903-1983) Birthplace: Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. Education: Syracuse University Radiography: 1938 Campbell Playhouse 1939 Hobby Lobby 1939 Monday At 8:30 1940 Behind the Mike 1942 Reader's Digest 1942 Vox Pop 1942 Are You A Geniuis? 1942 Radio Reader's Digest 1942 The Adventures Of Ellery Queen 1943 The Chamber Music Society Of Lower Basin Street 1944 Two Men On A Raft 1944 Words At War 1944 Treasury Salute 1945 The Abbott and Costello Show 1945 Texaco Star Theater 1945 Between the Bookends 1947 Ernest Chappell (Audition) 1947 Ted Malone 1947 Quiet Please 1947 CBS Is There 1947 The Big Story 1948 Edward R. Murrow News 1950 Cavalcade Of America 1953 This I Believe	Ernest Chappell byline circa 1925 1933 announcement of resumption of The Richfield Country Club over NBC/WJZ, with Ernest Chappell as emcee. Ernest Chappell circa 1942 Ernest Chappell married lovely Stage Film and Radio star Claudia Morgan, daughter of Ralph Morgan and niece of Frank Morgan in 1943	Quietly Yours . . . 6'3" Ernest Chappell, born and raised in Syracuse, New York was literally and figuratively, Syracuse's fair-haired boy. Star athlete in high school and Syracuse University, local sportscaster, graduate of Syracuse University, local D.J. and emcee, Radio Director of local Syracuse station WFBL [''First Broadcast License''], and local columnist for the Syracuse Herald with his own byline, Riding The Waves with Chap. Universally well liked and admired, for Chappell, Radio was his oyster for 50 years throughout The Golden Age of Radio. From the August 22, 1965 Denton Record-Chronicle: Radio Pioneer Hopes To Begin New Career By SANDRA NEWTON Staff Writer One of radio's pioneers was in Denton this week for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Conley, 108 Forest St. Ernest Chappell, voice of the American Tobacco Co. on radio and television for more than 20 years stopped in Denton en route home from a 10,000-mile business - vacation trip. Accompanying him were his wife, Margie, and their two children, Susie and Jimmy. Chappell began in radio 42 years ago, when the industry was an infant of 15 years. In the past, his fame spread to the extent that he received mail in New York City, addressed simply, "Chappy." Now, he's preparing for semi-retirement from that field, only to embark upon new career. Chappell said, "I'm not interested in making a pile of money now--I don't need that. But what I am interested in is doing something about this country's sense of values." He plans, with other backers, to found a non-sectarian college in Palm Beach, Fla., and eventually to add it to a school of engineering for radio and television aspirants. Also included in Chappell's future plans is ownership of management of a television station. He'd like to work with Dr. Tom Moody, president of the Southern Baptist Pastors Association, in founding a new method for aiding in the spiritual development of the young people of America. The method he has outlined would begin daily telecasts in the morning with a "thought for the day." Noon programs would be designed to help viewers develop the habit of meditation. And final moments of daily telecasting time would be a presentation of a hymn by such artists as Kate Smith and "Tennessee" Ernie Ford. But looking ahead to a new field occupies only a portion of Chappell's time--he also recalls stories about some of the big-name stars with whom he's worked during the past 42 years. Rudy Vallee was one. And there was Orson Welles on CBS' "Hello, Americans," and David Ross and Edward R. Murrow. And a list too long to complete. And, of course, North Texas State University artist-in-residence Eugene Conley. Conley and Chappell met "back in '35 or '36" when the future Metropolitan opera star was still singing in church choirs. Chappell was in Boston to hear auditions for one of his radio programs. He heard Conley sing, and sent him on to New York City. They've been fast friends ever since, even though Conley and his wife eventually came to Texas and NTSU. When Chappell became an independent contractor in 1932, he was asked to cast a program for Herbert Diamond Co. of New York. It became the Herbert Diamond Entertainers, with Vallee singing two numbers. A dance band played and guest artists appeared regularly. "I thought the show was going along fine," Chappell recalls. "The firm was selling it's merchandise and they liked the show. "Then one day the manager called me into his office and said, "Look here at this stack of letters." "All of them were protesting against presenting dance music on Sunday afternoon. So the show--and Vallee--had to go. "Later I put him in another show on Thursday nights, and that was okay. But not on Sunday, no matter how popular he was."

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