Composer:
Elmer BernsteinCast:
Jim Hutton, David Wayne, Tom Reese, Ken Swofford, David Hedison, Robert Alda, John Hillerman, Juliet Mills, Orson Bean, Nina van Pallandt, Julie Sommars (more)Plots(1)
Long before Perry Mason and Jessica Fletcher held court as popular television sleuths, another private eye ruled the airwaves. Ellery Queen was the creation of novelists Manfred Bennington Lee and Frederic Dannay, a slightly spaced-out mystery writer whose modus operandi generally involved combing through massive amounts of evidence and endless lists of suspects to somehow unearth the truth. Ellery first cropped up on radio, but by 1950 (with television still a young and fresh medium), he landed his own television series, starring a succession of actors in the title role: first Richard Hart, then Lee Bowman, then Lee Philips, then Jim Hutton, then George Nader. Following the show's cancellation in 1959 and a 16-year delay, Ellery returned to television for a one-season stint, with the title shortened to simply ELLERY QUEEN. The detective was played on this occasion by Jim Hutton, with a supporting cast that included John Hillerman and David Wayne. (official distributor synopsis)
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Jim Hutton
USA
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The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
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David Wayne
USA
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The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Tom Reese
USA
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The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
Rawhide (1959) (series)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) (series)
Ken Swofford
USA
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The Fall Guy (1981) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
David Hedison
USA
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The Saint (1962) (series)
Wonder Woman (1975) (series)
Robert Alda
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
John Hillerman
USA
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Wonder Woman (1975) (series)
Little House on the Prairie (1974) (series)
Hart to Hart (1979) (series)
Juliet Mills
UK
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Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
Sherlock Holmes (1964) (series)
Jeff & Some Aliens (2017) (series)
Orson Bean
USA
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The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
How I Met Your Mother (2005) (series)
The Fall Guy (1981) (series)
Nina van Pallandt
Denmark
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Tales of the Unexpected (1979) (series)
Taxi (1978) (series)
Hart to Hart (1979) (series)
Julie Sommars
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Get Smart (1965) (series)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) (series)
Rhonda Fleming
USA
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The Love Boat (1977) (series)
Betty White
USA
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Community (2009) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Cesar Romero
USA
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Rawhide (1959) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Timothy Carey
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Rawhide (1959) (series)
East of Eden (1981) (series)
Peggy Rea
USA
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I Love Lucy (1951) (series)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
The Golden Girls (1985) (series)
Pernell Roberts
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) (series)
Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
John McGiver
USA
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The Twilight Zone (1959) (series)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) (series)
Polly Bergen
USA
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The Sopranos (1999) (series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (series)
The Winds of War (1983) (series)
James Shigeta
USA
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Mission: Impossible (1966) (series)
The Outer Limits (1963) (series)