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The Adventures of Ellery Queen

30 episodes · 1939–1948 · ABC, CBS, NBC, Armed Forces Radio Service · Detective

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Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who wrote as Ellery Queen, brought their detective to radio from 1939 to 1948. Just before the solution, the story stopped while a panel of celebrity "armchair detectives" tried to solve it. Hugh Marlowe, Carleton Young, Sydney Smith, Lawrence Dobkin and Howard Culver played Ellery, and his secretary Nikki Porter was invented for radio before she appeared in the books.

Sources: Ellery Queen, Wikipedia

Episodes

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1939

• Queen April 7, 1939 · 24 min
• The Impossible Crime July 16, 1939 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Flying Needle August 6, 1939 · 26 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Lost Treasure September 24, 1939 · 25 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Picture Puzzle November 5, 1939 · 22 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Telltale Bottle November 19, 1939 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Three Scratches December 17, 1939 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Swiss Nutcracker December 24, 1939 · 25 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.

1942

• The Man Who Was Murdered by Installments December 31, 1942 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.

1943

• Mr Short and Mr Long January 14, 1943 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Circus Train March 25, 1943 · 26 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Fortune Teller May 20, 1943 · 31 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Adventure of the World Series Crime September 30, 1943 · NBC · 29 min
  A World Series star falls into a slump when his favorite bat is stolen, and Ellery has three hours to get it back. The armchair detectives include Yankee Ken Sears and Joe Gordon.
• The Vanishing Magician November 4, 1943 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Adventure of the Vanishing Magician November 6, 1943 · NBC · 30 min
  A has-been vaudevillian bets $25,000 he can vanish from a house.

1944

• Mischief Maker January 13, 1944 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Deadmans Cavern April 14, 1944 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs doesn't list this date, but lists the same title on April 13, 1944.
• The Adventure of the Foul Tip July 13, 1944 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
  A movie cowboy fights his unfaithful wife's divorce. Organist Charles La Torre is the guest armchair detective.
• Foul Tip July 15, 1944 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs doesn't list this date, but lists the same title on July 13, 1944.

1945

• The Adventure of Nick the Knife August 1, 1945 · CBS · 24 min
  A knife slasher is loose in the city.
• Nick the Knife August 8, 1945 · 24 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “The Clue in C Major.”
• The Adventure of the Message in Red November 7, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  Three women shot in one night with the same gun. What did they have in common?

1947

• The Green Gorillas February 12, 1947 · CBS · 27 min
  Who is behind the street gang called the Green Gorillas? Ellery gets a teenager to help him find out. José Ferrer is the guest armchair detective.
• Nikki Porter, Suspect March 5, 1947 · 26 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Number Thirty-One September 7, 1947 · NBC · 29 min
  Lawrence Dobkin's Ellery: a murdered butler leaves the clue that convicts a diamond smuggler.
• The Saga of Ruffy Rux November 27, 1947 · ABC · 29 min
  Two silver dollars point to Ruffy Rux after a man is shot, and Ellery follows him to Los Angeles. Ellery gets unusually rough with Ruffy.
• The Man in the Street December 4, 1947 · ABC · 29 min
  Two crooked brothers sold ten thousand people homes in a Long Island swamp, and now both are dead. Gerald Mohr is the guest armchair detective.

1948

• The Armchair Detective March 18, 1948 · ABC · 31 min
  The show's own guest armchair detective is murdered, and Ellery solves it while the program is on the air. Sheilah Graham is the guest.
• Three Frogs April 29, 1948 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Case of One Diamond May 6, 1948 · ABC · 29 min
  Ellery is asked to guard a famous diamond for the weekend, and is shot first.