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{ "se": "S01E00", "title": "Too Many Suspects", "tt": 72929, "air_date": "1975-03-23", "description": "When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Ray Milland", "nm": 1537, "roles": [ { "char": "Carson McKell" } ] }, { "name": "Kim Hunter", "nm": 1375, "roles": [ { "char": "Marion McKell" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "John Larch", "nm": 488024, "roles": [ { "char": "District Attorney" } ] }, { "name": "Tim O'Connor", "nm": 640539, "roles": [ { "char": "Ben Waterson" } ] }, { "name": "Nancy Kovack", "nm": 468222, "roles": [ { "char": "Monaca Grey", "as Nancy Mehta": true } ] }, { "name": "Warren Berlinger", "nm": 75671, "roles": [ { "char": "Eddie Carter" } ] }, { "name": "Monte Markham", "nm": 548449, "roles": [ { "char": "Tom McKell" } ] }, { "name": "Gail Strickland", "nm": 834373, "roles": [ { "char": "Gail Stevens" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. 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Doyle": true } ] }, { "name": "Herb Edelman", "nm": 248983, "roles": [ { "char": "Taxi Driver" } ] }, { "name": "Farley Granger", "nm": 335048, "roles": [ { "char": "Paul Quincy" } ] }, { "name": "Guy Lombardo", "nm": 518456, "roles": [ { "char": "Himself" } ] }, { "name": "Karen Machon", "nm": 532662, "roles": [ { "char": "Kitty McBride" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Robinson", "nm": 732457, "roles": [ { "char": "Lewis Halliday", "as Charles Knox Robinson": true } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Rush", "nm": 750640, "roles": [ { "char": "Emma Zelman" } ] }, { "name": "Ray Walston", "nm": 1827, "roles": [ { "char": "Howard Pratt" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Arch Johnson", "nm": 424516, "roles": [ { "char": "The Commissioner" } ] }, { "name": "George Wyner", "nm": 943927, "roles": [ { "char": "Joe Kemmelman" } ] }, { "name": "Peggy Rea", "nm": 713762, "roles": [ { "char": "Madge Velie" } ] }, { "name": "Joseph V. Perry", "nm": 675129, "roles": [ { "char": "Rawson", "as Joseph Perry": true } ] }, { "name": "Louis Guss", "nm": 348927, "roles": [ { "char": "Officer McCoy", "as Lou Guss": true } ] }, { "name": "William Lanteau", "nm": 487140, "roles": [ { "char": "Avery Dickson" } ] }, { "name": "Thayer David", "nm": 203076, "roles": [ { "char": "Marcus Halliday", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Tony Regan", "nm": 716488, "roles": [ { "char": "Dance floor extra", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Leoda Richards", "nm": 724211, "roles": [ { "char": "Dance floor extra", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E02", "title": "The Adventure of the Lover's Leap", "tt": 570458, "air_date": "1975-09-18", "description": "When an heiress is found dead from an apparent suicide, Ellery Queen suspects she was murdered, but the investigation is hindered by interference from radio detective Simon Brimmer.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Don Ameche", "nm": 747, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Norman Marsh" } ] }, { "name": "Anne Francis", "nm": 4282, "roles": [ { "char": "Nurse Evelyn Chandler" } ] }, { "name": "Jack Kelly", "nm": 446438, "roles": [ { "char": "Attorney J. T. Latimer" } ] }, { "name": "Ida Lupino", "nm": 526946, "roles": [ { "char": "Stephanie Talbott Kendrick" } ] }, { "name": "Craig Stevens", "nm": 301887, "roles": [ { "char": "Jonathan Kendrick" } ] }, { "name": "Susan Strasberg", "nm": 1782, "roles": [ { "char": "Cathy Kendrick" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Jason Wingreen", "nm": 935067, "roles": [ { "char": "Roy Miller" } ] }, { "name": "Jimmy Lydon", "nm": 527996, "roles": [ { "char": "Radio Actor", "as James Lydon": true } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace" } ] }, { "name": "Basil Hoffman", "nm": 388819, "roles": [ { "char": "Technical Print Man, Harry" } ] }, { "name": "John Lawlor", "nm": 492552, "roles": [ { "char": "Radio Technician" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E03", "title": "The Adventure of the Chinese Dog", "tt": 570452, "air_date": "1975-09-25", "description": "A fishing trip for Richard and Ellery Queen soon becomes a working vacation when they are asked to help investigate the murder of a small town magnate.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Orson Bean", "nm": 4730, "roles": [ { "char": "Warren Wright" } ] }, { "name": "Geraldine Brooks", "nm": 111997, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Tilda McDonald" } ] }, { "name": "Katherine Crawford", "nm": 186853, "roles": [ { "char": "Julia Wright" } ] }, { "name": "Murray Hamilton", "nm": 358069, "roles": [ { "char": "Henry Palmer" } ] }, { "name": "Eugene Roche", "nm": 733929, "roles": [ { "char": "Sheriff Oscar Eberhart" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Hogan", "nm": 389611, "roles": [ { "char": "Gordon Wilde" } ] }, { "name": "Robert F. Simon", "nm": 800359, "roles": [ { "char": "Eben Wright" } ] }, { "name": "Jerry Fogel", "nm": 283891, "roles": [ { "char": "Deputy Ralph Brown" } ] }, { "name": "Hal Smith", "nm": 808401, "roles": [ { "char": "Coroner Will Bailey" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Quinn", "nm": 703767, "roles": [ { "char": "Minister, J. P. Dell" } ] }, { "name": "Dee Wallace", "nm": 908914, "roles": [ { "char": "Waitress, Mamie" } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Nisbet", "nm": 632604, "roles": [ { "char": "Delbert the cabbie", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E04", "title": "The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader", "tt": 570453, "air_date": "1975-10-02", "description": "A tyrannical comic book creator is shot to death in his office, and Ellery Queen becomes the prime suspect.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Bosley", "nm": 98014, "roles": [ { "char": "Bud Armstrong" } ] }, { "name": "Lynda Day George", "nm": 313519, "roles": [ { "char": "Alma Van Dine" } ] }, { "name": "Donald O'Connor", "nm": 640307, "roles": [ { "char": "Kenny Freeman" } ] }, { "name": "Ken Swofford", "nm": 842855, "roles": [ { "char": "Frank Flannigan", "ch": 129872 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Arch Johnson", "nm": 424516, "roles": [ { "char": "Deputy Commissioner Hayes", "as Archie Johnson": true } ] }, { "name": "Eddie Firestone", "nm": 278646, "roles": [ { "char": "Phil Collins" } ] }, { "name": "George Sperdakos", "nm": 818279, "roles": [ { "char": "Vincent Porter" } ] }, { "name": "Joseph Maher", "nm": 536850, "roles": [ { "char": "Lyle Shannon" } ] }, { "name": "Alan Landers", "nm": 484624, "roles": [ { "char": "Ronald Himes" } ] }, { "name": "Herbie Faye", "nm": 269667, "roles": [ { "char": "Moe Fletcher" } ] }, { "name": "Maggie Nelson", "nm": 2761564, "roles": [ { "char": "Vera" } ] }, { "name": "Sandy Ward", "nm": 911832, "roles": [ { "char": "Guard, Harry" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E05", "title": "The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express", "tt": 570449, "air_date": "1975-10-09", "description": "Inspector Queen calls in his son Ellery to help investigate the murder of a newspaper publisher, who first disappears from his private express elevator then is later found there dead by gunshot.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "George Furth", "nm": 299149, "roles": [ { "char": "Albert Klinger" } ] }, { "name": "Pat Harrington Jr.", "nm": 364224, "roles": [ { "char": "Mitchell McCully", "as Pat Harrington": true } ] }, { "name": "Dina Merrill", "nm": 581277, "roles": [ { "char": "Miss Harriet Manners" } ] }, { "name": "Paul Stewart", "nm": 829717, "roles": [ { "char": "Thornton Johns" } ] }, { "name": "Ken Swofford", "nm": 842855, "roles": [ { "char": "Frank Flannigan", "ch": 129872 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Ruth McDevitt", "nm": 567599, "roles": [ { "char": "Zelda Van Dyke" } ] }, { "name": "Kip Niven", "nm": 633121, "roles": [ { "char": "Arthur Van Dyke" } ] }, { "name": "John Finnegan", "nm": 278201, "roles": [ { "char": "Elevator Starter, Fred Durnhoffer" } ] }, { "name": "Suzann Arnold", "nm": 2866913, "roles": [ { "char": "Judy Adams", "as Suzanne Arnold": true } ] }, { "name": "Sandra de Bruin", "nm": 207632, "roles": [ { "char": "Sally", "as Sandy de Bruin": true } ] }, { "name": "Kristin Larkin", "nm": 488304, "roles": [ { "char": "Dorothy" } ] }, { "name": "Tyler McVey", "nm": 574712, "roles": [ { "char": "Henry Manners" } ] }, { "name": "Mel Allen", "nm": 20827, "roles": [ { "char": "Baseball Announcer", "voice": true } ] }, { "name": "Bill McLean", "nm": 565686, "roles": [ { "char": "Security Guard", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E06", "title": "The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance", "tt": 570447, "air_date": "1975-10-19", "description": "Beloved Vera Bethune stars as Miss Aggie in a radio soap opera, but is about to be written out. One day she drinks water from a jug and is poisoned in a murder attempt. She is taken to the hospital and survives, but the killer returns.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Eve Arden", "nm": 781, "roles": [ { "char": "Vera Bethune" }, { "char": "Miss Aggie" } ] }, { "name": "Nan Martin", "nm": 552832, "roles": [ { "char": "Olivia Burns" } ] }, { "name": "John McGiver", "nm": 569410, "roles": [ { "char": "Mr. Pearl" } ] }, { "name": "Bert Parks", "nm": 662912, "roles": [ { "char": "Lawrence Denver" }, { "char": "Jeff" } ] }, { "name": "Paul Shenar", "nm": 791502, "roles": [ { "char": "Announcer Wendell Warren" } ] }, { "name": "Betty White", "nm": 924508, "roles": [ { "char": "Louise Demery" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Penelope Windust", "nm": 934829, "roles": [ { "char": "Anita Leslie" }, { "char": "Cousin Jenny" } ] }, { "name": "Beatrice Colen", "nm": 171265, "roles": [ { "char": "Mary Lou Gumm" } ] }, { "name": "Gerald Hiken", "nm": 383732, "roles": [ { "char": "Alvin Burns" } ] }, { "name": "Joseph R. Sicari", "nm": 796351, "roles": [ { "char": "Gus Geropolis" } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace" } ] }, { "name": "Sidney Miller", "nm": 587804, "roles": [ { "char": "Morgue Attendant" } ] }, { "name": "Hilda Haynes", "nm": 371465, "roles": [ { "char": "Nurse Frawley" } ] }, { "name": "Don Keefer", "nm": 444411, "roles": [ { "char": "The Fence" } ] }, { "name": "Ralph Montgomery", "nm": 599892, "roles": [ { "char": "Reporter", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E07", "title": "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs", "tt": 570446, "air_date": "1975-10-23", "description": "Ellery's publicist becomes embroiled in a murder investigation when she finds the body of one of her clients, a World War II spy who recently wrote a tell-all memoir.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Rene Auberjonois", "nm": 41281, "roles": [ { "char": "Marcel Fourchet" } ] }, { "name": "Lloyd Bochner", "nm": 1957, "roles": [ { "char": "Col. Alec Nivin" } ] }, { "name": "Gretchen Corbett", "nm": 179151, "roles": [ { "char": "Jenny O'Brien" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Loggia", "nm": 5162, "roles": [ { "char": "Alexsei Dobrenskov" } ] }, { "name": "Pernell Roberts", "nm": 731490, "roles": [ { "char": "Rosh Kaleel" }, { "char": "Barney Groves" }, { "char": "Maj. George Pearson" } ] }, { "name": "Nina van Pallandt", "nm": 887684, "roles": [ { "char": "Sonja Dobrenskov", "as Nina Van Pallandt": true } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Peter Bromilow", "nm": 111325, "roles": [ { "char": "Colin Esterbrook" } ] }, { "name": "Toian Matchinga", "nm": 532639, "roles": [ { "char": "Glenda Dunlap", "as Caryn Matchinga": true } ] }, { "name": "Jonathan Hole", "nm": 354949, "roles": [ { "char": "Dress Shop Manager" } ] }, { "name": "Claude Earl Jones", "nm": 427779, "roles": [ { "char": "Mounted Officer" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E08", "title": "The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party", "tt": 570459, "air_date": "1975-10-30", "description": "Fun-loving theatrical producer Spencer Lockridge invites Ellery to his mansion for a weekend of working out how to adapt one of Ellery's works for the stage. But the producer disappears shortly thereafter and is presumed murdered. A series of clues are delivered by pranksters' means. The idea is to try to get the killer to implicate himself or herself.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Andrews", "nm": 28647, "roles": [ { "char": "Spencer Lockridge" } ] }, { "name": "Jim Backus", "nm": 822, "roles": [ { "char": "Howard Biggers" } ] }, { "name": "Rhonda Fleming", "nm": 281766, "roles": [ { "char": "Laura Lockridge" } ] }, { "name": "Larry Hagman", "nm": 1306, "roles": [ { "char": "Paul Gardner" } ] }, { "name": "Julius Harris", "nm": 364918, "roles": [ { "char": "Doyle the Butler" } ] }, { "name": "Carmen Mathews", "nm": 558618, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Letitia Allingham" } ] }, { "name": "Patricia Smith", "nm": 809514, "roles": [ { "char": "Diana Gardner" } ] }, { "name": "Julie Sommars", "nm": 813940, "roles": [ { "char": "Emmy Reinhart" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Lew Brown", "nm": 3064, "roles": [ { "char": "Lt. Carr" } ] }, { "name": "Olan Soule", "nm": 815825, "roles": [ { "char": "Conductor" } ] }, { "name": "George Janek", "nm": 417444, "roles": [ { "char": "Johnny Lockridge" } ] }, { "name": "William 'Billy' Benedict", "nm": 70827, "roles": [ { "char": "Cabbie", "as William Benedict": true } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E09", "title": "The Adventure of Veronica's Veils", "tt": 570448, "air_date": "1975-11-13", "description": "George Burns (who receives \"special appearance by\" billing in the end titles) plays Sam Packer, a wisecracking theatrical producer who appears in his own funeral, via a film he made shortly before his demise from an apparent heart attack. Packer's monologue, in true Burns style, is a riff on his own death and how he believed he would be murdered. It turns out the Packer was indeed poisoned in the dressing room of a stripper queen. But she didn't have enough clothes on to smuggle the poison into the room, did she? In fact, nobody seemed to be able to get into the room with the poison. As Ellery says just before revealing the killer: \"You'll know who once you figure out how.\"", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Julie Adams", "nm": 11105, "roles": [ { "char": "Jennifer Packer" } ] }, { "name": "Jack Carter", "nm": 141660, "roles": [ { "char": "Risky Ross" }, { "char": "Joey Flanders" } ] }, { "name": "William Demarest", "nm": 218131, "roles": [ { "char": "Alexander 'Pop' Denny" } ] }, { "name": "Don Porter", "nm": 692093, "roles": [ { "char": "Gregory Layton" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Rhoades", "nm": 722315, "roles": [ { "char": "Veronica Vale" }, { "char": "Ronnie" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "George Burns", "nm": 122675, "roles": [ { "char": "Sam Packer" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Hayden Rorke", "nm": 740718, "roles": [ { "char": "Marcus Brady" } ] }, { "name": "Joshua Shelley", "nm": 791206, "roles": [ { "char": "Dick Bowie" } ] }, { "name": "Peter Hobbs", "nm": 387617, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Steiner" } ] }, { "name": "John Dennis", "nm": 112392, "roles": [ { "char": "Tolson" } ] }, { "name": "John Lawlor", "nm": 492552, "roles": [ { "char": "Director", "as John H. Lawlor": true } ] }, { "name": "Romo Vincent", "nm": 898643, "roles": [ { "char": "Gus Banana" } ] }, { "name": "Pat Sturges", "nm": 836331, "roles": [ { "char": "DoDo" } ] }, { "name": "Derrel Maury", "nm": 561278, "roles": [ { "char": "Page Boy", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E10", "title": "The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse", "tt": 570460, "air_date": "1975-12-11", "description": "Much-hated museum benefactor Norris Wentworth is found dead in the museum. The autopsy indicates he died of a heart attack but did he have help in dying? He was let into the museum by somebody and couldn't reach his nitroglycerin medicine, indicating that whoever let him in also intimidated him. An Egyptologist shows up and claims that the piece, a pharaoh's tomb, was stolen from Egypt and vows that a curse has been laid upon the tomb to haunt anyone who robs it.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "June Lockhart", "nm": 1478, "roles": [ { "char": "Claudia Wentworth" } ] }, { "name": "Ross Martin", "nm": 553014, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Otis Tremaine" } ] }, { "name": "Simon Oakland", "nm": 643000, "roles": [ { "char": "Norris Wentworth" } ] }, { "name": "Nehemiah Persoff", "nm": 675490, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Mustafa Haddid" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Wallace Rooney", "nm": 740367, "roles": [ { "char": "Harry the Guard" } ] }, { "name": "Nancy Belle Fuller", "nm": 298312, "roles": [ { "char": "Margie Coopersmith" } ] }, { "name": "Joel Stedman", "nm": 824329, "roles": [ { "char": "Bud Wentworth", "as Joel Steadman": true } ] }, { "name": "Nedra Deen", "nm": 2235661, "roles": [ { "char": "Lois Gordon" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Macaulay", "nm": 531321, "roles": [ { "char": "Art Critic" } ] }, { "name": "Gerald Peters", "nm": 676446, "roles": [ { "char": "Gilbert the butler", "as Gerald S. Peters": true } ] }, { "name": "John Larroquette", "nm": 488662, "roles": [ { "char": "Bellhop" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E11", "title": "The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument", "tt": 570451, "air_date": "1975-12-18", "description": "Edgar Manning, a mystery writer, wins the annual Blunt Instrument Award for his year's work and goes to pick it up at a party. Ellery, who was Edgar's rival for the award, is sidelined because of a nasty cold. So Edgar gleefully phones Ellery and gives a blow-by-blow description of the award ceremony (including describing the trophy) as he leans back in his easy chair. But the phone call is interrupted by a sickening thud. Ellery calls out to Edgar but gets no response. Cut back to Edgar, who's now face down on his desk. His skull was shattered by ... The Blunt Instrument, the trophy itself.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "John Dehner", "nm": 215000, "roles": [ { "char": "George Tisdale" } ] }, { "name": "Eva Gabor", "nm": 1247, "roles": [ { "char": "Magda Szomony" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Jaeckel", "nm": 1395, "roles": [ { "char": "Nick McVey" } ] }, { "name": "Dean Stockwell", "nm": 1777, "roles": [ { "char": "Cliff Waddell" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Keene Curtis", "nm": 193408, "roles": [ { "char": "Edgar Manning" } ] }, { "name": "Ellen Weston", "nm": 922948, "roles": [ { "char": "Mary Parks" } ] }, { "name": "Joanna Barnes", "nm": 55645, "roles": [ { "char": "Camellia Justice" } ] }, { "name": "Clyde Kusatsu", "nm": 476226, "roles": [ { "char": "Mateo" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Casper", "nm": 143857, "roles": [ { "char": "Melville" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Cornthwaite", "nm": 180452, "roles": [ { "char": "Stephen Osterwald", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Francis De Sales", "nm": 211402, "roles": [ { "char": "Awards Presenter", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Peter Paul Eastman", "nm": 247665, "roles": [ { "char": "Fingerprint Man", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Ross Elliott", "nm": 254616, "roles": [ { "char": "Captain Hill", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E12", "title": "The Adventure of the Black Falcon", "tt": 570450, "air_date": "1976-01-04", "description": "Letting a fine wine \"breathe\" proves deadly for the wine's owner Nick Kingston, who leaves it unattended for a killer to poison it. The vintner, who's hosting a party upstairs, comes back only to collapse. He tries to implicate the killer but breaks the wine cellar's only pencil, so he crawls to a wine rack and grabs a bottle, smashing it on the floor. The shattered bottle bears the label Black Falcon, indicating it was tied to World War One. But how?", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Howard Duff", "nm": 3318, "roles": [ { "char": "Eddie Morgan" } ] }, { "name": "Signe Hasso", "nm": 368516, "roles": [ { "char": "Flora Schumann" } ] }, { "name": "Tab Hunter", "nm": 2147, "roles": [ { "char": "John Randall" } ] }, { "name": "Roddy McDowall", "nm": 1522, "roles": [ { "char": "The Amazing Armitage" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Velie", "ch": 97512 } ] }, { "name": "William Schallert", "nm": 769974, "roles": [ { "char": "Alexander" } ] }, { "name": "Susan Stafford", "nm": 821345, "roles": [ { "char": "The Hat Check Girl" } ] }, { "name": "Rosanna Huffman", "nm": 400294, "roles": [ { "char": "Nancy McGuire" } ] }, { "name": "Lewis Charles", "nm": 153083, "roles": [ { "char": "Nick Kingston" } ] }, { "name": "George Skaff", "nm": 803748, "roles": [ { "char": "Maitre D'" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Basso", "nm": 60325, "roles": [ { "char": "Waiter" } ] }, { "name": "Leoda Richards", "nm": 724211, "roles": [ { "char": "Nightclub Patron", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E13", "title": "The Adventure of the Sunday Punch", "tt": 570462, "air_date": "1976-01-11", "description": "During a practice bout, a lucky shot knocks champion boxer Kid Hogan unconscious. He revives enough to sip some water from his manager's \"swill bottle,\" then falls comatose and is soon pronounced dead. An autopsy reveals he was poisoned, and the \"swill bottle\" was loaded with poison. The manager is strongly implicated, but so is the opponent Joe Simpson.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Robert Alda", "nm": 17376, "roles": [ { "char": "Frank Anthony" } ] }, { "name": "Dane Clark", "nm": 163816, "roles": [ { "char": "Sam Hatter" } ] }, { "name": "Janet MacLachlan", "nm": 533672, "roles": [ { "char": "Corrine Ogden" } ] }, { "name": "Lloyd Nolan", "nm": 634313, "roles": [ { "char": "Doctor Sanford" } ] }, { "name": "Ken Swofford", "nm": 842855, "roles": [ { "char": "Frank Flannigan", "ch": 129872 } ] }, { "name": "Otis Young", "nm": 949935, "roles": [ { "char": "Joseph Adams Simpson" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Terrence O'Connor", "nm": 640531, "roles": [ { "char": "Melinda Sanford" } ] }, { "name": "Jerry Quarry", "nm": 1620897, "roles": [ { "char": "Brad 'Kid' Hogan" } ] }, { "name": "Art Aragon", "nm": 32734, "roles": [ { "char": "Eddie" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Bakalyan", "nm": 48147, "roles": [ { "char": "Knucks O'Neill", "as Dick Bakalyan": true } ] }, { "name": "Maggie Nelson", "nm": 2761564, "roles": [ { "char": "Vera" } ] }, { "name": "Pervis Atkins", "nm": 40641, "roles": [ { "char": "Rocky" } ] }, { "name": "John Furlong", "nm": 298952, "roles": [ { "char": "Dave" } ] }, { "name": "Juanita Moore", "nm": 601428, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Douglas" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E14", "title": "The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer", "tt": 570455, "air_date": "1976-01-18", "description": "Famous inventor Lamont Franklin suddenly withdraws from the world and starts holing up in his shed, playing incessantly with his toy trains. So why would someone kill him? A clue at the beginning of the show: before the inventor answers the knock of his killer, he hides some secret formulas in a secret - compartment desk drawer.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Arthur Godfrey", "nm": 323960, "roles": [ { "char": "Claude Sitwell" } ] }, { "name": "David Hedison", "nm": 373314, "roles": [ { "char": "Roger Woods" } ] }, { "name": "Dorothy Malone", "nm": 540416, "roles": [ { "char": "Carol Franklin" } ] }, { "name": "Ed McMahon", "nm": 573012, "roles": [ { "char": "Lamont Franklin" } ] }, { "name": "Bobby Sherman", "nm": 792385, "roles": [ { "char": "Doug Carmichael" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Dick Van Patten", "nm": 887694, "roles": [ { "char": "Billy Geeter" } ] }, { "name": "Ann Reinking", "nm": 718237, "roles": [ { "char": "Lorelie Farnsworth" } ] }, { "name": "Ellen Madison", "nm": 534966, "roles": [ { "char": "Emily Woods" } ] }, { "name": "Patricia Wilson", "nm": 933939, "roles": [ { "char": "Bridget, the maid" } ] }, { "name": "John Fujioka", "nm": 297801, "roles": [ { "char": "Restaurant Manager" } ] }, { "name": "Art Balinger", "nm": 50255, "roles": [ { "char": "Newscaster", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E15", "title": "The Adventure of the Wary Witness", "tt": 570465, "air_date": "1976-01-25", "description": "Linville Hagen, on trial for murder, claims that the victim Nick Danello was shot through a window from a fire escape, and that Hagen fired at the killer. The defendant's lawyer Leo Campbell claims that he can bring in a witness, a woman who was beaten up by the victim. But the woman can't be found. When she's finally tracked down, Inspector Queen, Ellery and Frank Flannigan hear a gunshot from outside her window, break down the door and find the woman lying unconscious -- shot from the fire escape.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Michael Constantine", "nm": 176073, "roles": [ { "char": "Leo Robert Campbell" } ] }, { "name": "Dwayne Hickman", "nm": 382722, "roles": [ { "char": "Linville Hagen" } ] }, { "name": "Sal Mineo", "nm": 543, "roles": [ { "char": "James Danello" } ] }, { "name": "Tricia O'Neil", "nm": 642078, "roles": [ { "char": "Yvonne Danello" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Parks", "nm": 662981, "roles": [ { "char": "Terry Purvis" } ] }, { "name": "Cesar Romero", "nm": 3110, "roles": [ { "char": "Armand Danello" } ] }, { "name": "Dick Sargent", "nm": 765102, "roles": [ { "char": "D.A. Tom Calabrese" } ] }, { "name": "Ken Swofford", "nm": 842855, "roles": [ { "char": "Frank Flannigan", "ch": 129872 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Katherine Woodville", "nm": 940890, "roles": [ { "char": "Priscilla Hagen", "as Kate Woodville": true } ] }, { "name": "Sam Gilman", "nm": 319462, "roles": [ { "char": "The Judge" } ] }, { "name": "Richard Young", "nm": 949985, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Kemp" } ] }, { "name": "Ollie O'Toole", "nm": 642877, "roles": [ { "char": "Hobby" } ] }, { "name": "Jackie Russell", "nm": 751208, "roles": [ { "char": "Dottie Lomax" } ] }, { "name": "Myron Natwick", "nm": 622452, "roles": [ { "char": "1st Reporter" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Stoneman", "nm": 832279, "roles": [ { "char": "2nd Reporter" } ] }, { "name": "James Demopoulos", "nm": 3650491, "roles": [ { "char": "Nick Danello", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Cosmo Sardo", "nm": 764972, "roles": [ { "char": "Courtroom Spectator", "uncredited": true } ] }, { "name": "Arthur Tovey", "nm": 869863, "roles": [ { "char": "Courtroom Spectator", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E16", "title": "The Adventure of the Judas Tree", "tt": 570457, "air_date": "1976-02-01", "description": "Soemone makes the murder of wealthy George Sherman look like a ritualistic killing, hanging his corpse from a Cersis tree (aka a Judas tree, after the one Judas Iscariot supposedly hanged himself from) and adorning it with branches. When George is found to be far less wealthy than thought (he had given everything away except a huge life insurance policy), suspicion turns to his wife Paulette, who already has a boyfriend on the side.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Dana Andrews", "nm": 763, "roles": [ { "char": "Lewis Marshall" } ] }, { "name": "Bill Dana", "nm": 199049, "roles": [ { "char": "Salvatore Mercadonte" } ] }, { "name": "Clu Gulager", "nm": 347656, "roles": [ { "char": "Father Terrence Devlin" }, { "char": "Captain Thomas G. Horton" } ] }, { "name": "Jack Kruschen", "nm": 472816, "roles": [ { "char": "Gunther Starr" } ] }, { "name": "George Maharis", "nm": 536781, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Anthony Bender" } ] }, { "name": "Diana Muldaur", "nm": 611707, "roles": [ { "char": "Paulette Sherman" } ] }, { "name": "James Shigeta", "nm": 793363, "roles": [ { "char": "Stephen Yang" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Ted Gehring", "nm": 311811, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Buford" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Pataki", "nm": 329029, "roles": [ { "char": "Al Russo" } ] }, { "name": "Peter Hobbs", "nm": 387617, "roles": [ { "char": "Medical Examiner, Dr. Steiner" } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E17", "title": "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario", "tt": 570461, "air_date": "1976-02-08", "description": "Gil Mallory, an actor playing Ellery Queen in a motion picture, is supposed to be shot on camera, then jump up and nab the woman who shot him, exclaiming \"Bulletproof vest!\" The rehearsal with blanks goes fine. But the ensuing take with the same gun finds it loaded with real bullets, and Mallory drops dead. The film crew tries to carry on, and soon stunt man Mike Hewitt is killed when the car he was driving is rigged to wipe out before he was ready. Are the two murders linked -- and how?", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Noah Beery Jr.", "nm": 890, "roles": [ { "char": "Lionel Briggs", "ch": 356680, "as Noah Beery": true } ] }, { "name": "Carole Cook", "nm": 176946, "roles": [ { "char": "Gossip Columnist", "ch": 356681 } ] }, { "name": "Don DeFore", "nm": 214529, "roles": [ { "char": "Dave Pierce", "ch": 356683 } ] }, { "name": "Troy Donahue", "nm": 1148, "roles": [ { "char": "Gilbert Mallory", "ch": 356685 } ] }, { "name": "Vincent Price", "nm": 1637, "roles": [ { "char": "Director Michael Raynor", "ch": 356673 } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Rush", "nm": 750640, "roles": [ { "char": "Claire Mallory", "ch": 356692 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Carr", "nm": 139824, "roles": [ { "char": "Lt. Braden", "ch": 356691 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Fix", "nm": 280707, "roles": [ { "char": "Capt. Benjamin Blake", "ch": 356689 } ] }, { "name": "Susan Damante", "nm": 6978, "roles": [ { "char": "Pamela Courtney", "ch": 356688 } ] }, { "name": "Jack Murdoch", "nm": 613756, "roles": [ { "char": "Al Garvin", "ch": 356687, "as Jack Murdock": true } ] }, { "name": "James Sikking", "nm": 797725, "roles": [ { "char": "Mike Hewitt", "ch": 356686 } ] }, { "name": "Rod Porter", "nm": 692275, "roles": [ { "char": "Asst. Director", "ch": 356690 } ] }, { "name": "Karl Lukas", "nm": 525523, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Harris", "ch": 356684 } ] }, { "name": "Jack De Mave", "nm": 210205, "roles": [ { "char": "Sonny North", "ch": 356682, "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E18", "title": "The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman", "tt": 570463, "air_date": "1976-02-29", "description": "Society matron Lilliam McGraw is stabbed to death while examining a painting she purchased at auction. She had started to scrape off the painting to get at another painting underneath, and had uncovered the artist's signature -- \"Lazar,\" a key figure in an unsolved (and heinous) murder in Paris 25 years earlier. When the rest of the painting is revealed, it's a portrait of the dead woman herself. Investigation reveals that the woman was in Paris at the time of the murder and may have been the killer, but she lost her memory. Somebody didn't want her to regain it.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Theodore Bikel", "nm": 942, "roles": [ { "char": "Sergio Vargo" } ] }, { "name": "Joyce Brothers", "nm": 112579, "roles": [ { "char": "Lillian McGraw", "as Dr. Joyce Brothers": true } ] }, { "name": "Victor Buono", "nm": 120658, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Friedland" } ] }, { "name": "Vera Miles", "nm": 587256, "roles": [ { "char": "Celeste Wakefield" } ] }, { "name": "Edward Mulhare", "nm": 611811, "roles": [ { "char": "Myles Prescott" } ] }, { "name": "Forrest Tucker", "nm": 875861, "roles": [ { "char": "Clint McGraw" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Alfred Ryder", "nm": 753086, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Claude Gravette" } ] }, { "name": "Woodrow Parfrey", "nm": 661416, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Saltzman" } ] }, { "name": "Ben Wright", "nm": 942220, "roles": [ { "char": "Anton Lucheck" } ] }, { "name": "Diana Chesney", "nm": 156243, "roles": [ { "char": "Edna, the Maid" } ] }, { "name": "James Andronica", "nm": 29068, "roles": [ { "char": "Eddie Hummel" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Arthofer", "nm": 2759638, "roles": [ { "char": "Sound Effects Man" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E19", "title": "The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley", "tt": 570464, "air_date": "1976-03-07", "description": "Famous crooner and cutthroat record producer Alvin Winer is doing a radio interview when songwriter Danny Murphy breaks into the studio and angrily accuses the singer of stealing his song. Danny threatens Alvin, then storms out with several others in pursuit. Alvin is soon found in the music library, dead and clutching a recording of \"Danny Boy,\" which would seem to implicate Murphy. But is it a dying clue or a red herring?", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Polly Bergen", "nm": 917, "roles": [ { "char": "Dina Carroll-Winer" } ] }, { "name": "Ken Berry", "nm": 77607, "roles": [ { "char": "DJ Paul 'Buddy' Parker" } ] }, { "name": "Michael Callan", "nm": 130286, "roles": [ { "char": "Gary Swift" } ] }, { "name": "Norman Fell", "nm": 1205, "roles": [ { "char": "Errol Keyes" } ] }, { "name": "Albert Salmi", "nm": 758692, "roles": [ { "char": "Herbie Morrow" } ] }, { "name": "Rudy Vallee", "nm": 884964, "roles": [ { "char": "Alvin Winer" } ] }, { "name": "John Hillerman", "nm": 384916, "roles": [ { "char": "Simon Brimmer", "ch": 97513 } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Renne Jarrett", "nm": 418961, "roles": [ { "char": "Penny Carroll" } ] }, { "name": "Brad David", "nm": 78525, "roles": [ { "char": "Dan Murphy" } ] }, { "name": "Dori Brenner", "nm": 107467, "roles": [ { "char": "Laura Schramm" } ] }, { "name": "Vince Howard", "nm": 397660, "roles": [ { "char": "Charlie the bartender" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Ayer", "nm": 43751, "roles": [ { "char": "Engineer, Lou" } ] }, { "name": "Billy Varga", "nm": 889703, "roles": [ { "char": "Security Guard" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E20", "title": "The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep", "tt": 570445, "air_date": "1976-03-14", "description": "Mobster Ralph Caesar survives a bombing attempt and plays dead, hiding out in a hotel room with two police guards. But he is found dead anyway, of poison. Furious crusading District Attorney Erwin Murphy accuses Inspector Queen and the two guards (including Velie) of serving poisoned chewing gum, the only thing the mobster had to dine on. Ellery thinks this unlikely because nobody opened the packet except Caeser, and starts looking for other ways the poison could have been administered.", "cast": [ { "name": "Jim Hutton", "nm": 1380, "roles": [ { "char": "Ellery Queen", "ch": 30420 } ] }, { "name": "David Wayne", "nm": 915536, "roles": [ { "char": "Inspector Richard Queen", "ch": 35479 } ] }, { "name": "Edward Albert", "nm": 1902, "roles": [ { "char": "Lee Marx", "as Edward Laurence Albert": true } ] }, { "name": "Michael V. Gazzo", "nm": 311155, "roles": [ { "char": "Benny Franks", "as Michael Gazzo": true } ] }, { "name": "Jan Murray", "nm": 615031, "roles": [ { "char": "Ralph Caesar" } ] }, { "name": "Kevin Tighe", "nm": 1798, "roles": [ { "char": "Detective Jim Millay" } ] }, { "name": "Stuart Whitman", "nm": 926183, "roles": [ { "char": "Erwin Murphy" } ] }, { "name": "Tom Reese", "nm": 716074, "roles": [ { "char": "Sgt. Thomas Velie", "ch": 398787 } ] }, { "name": "Elizabeth Lane", "nm": 485328, "roles": [ { "char": "Ruth Caesar" } ] }, { "name": "Timothy Carey", "nm": 137046, "roles": [ { "char": "Jay Bonner", "as Timothy Agoglia Carey": true } ] }, { "name": "Erica Hagen", "nm": 353385, "roles": [ { "char": "Melody Todd" } ] }, { "name": "Arch Johnson", "nm": 424516, "roles": [ { "char": "Deputy Commissioner Hayes" } ] }, { "name": "Bibi Besch", "nm": 935, "roles": [ { "char": "Edie Allen" } ] }, { "name": "Stanley Ralph Ross", "nm": 743853, "roles": [ { "char": "Gabe" } ] }, { "name": "Nina Roman", "nm": 738730, "roles": [ { "char": "Grace", "uncredited": true } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E21", "title": "The Adventure of the Hardhearted Huckster", "tt": 570456, "air_date": "1976-03-21", "description": "Madison Avenue advertising executive James Bevin Long wants to make newspaper columnist Frank Flanagan a TV star by setting him up with a variety show. But then Long is murdered in his private bathroom, stabbed in the back. The killer had to be someone who knew Long's meticulous habits. 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