Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 22 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
- new york city
- detective
- writer
- nypd
- post world war ii
- murder investigation
- 1940s
- cheerful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Dane Clark
- Tyler McVey
- Dee Wallace
- William Schallert
- Paul Shenar
- Don Ameche
- Eva Gabor
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Clyde Kusatsu
- Ross Martin
- Dina Merrill
- Directed
- David Greene, Walter Doniger, Seymour Robbie, Ernest Pintoff, Charles S. Dubin, James Sheldon & 3 more
- Created
- William Link, Richard Levinson
- Written
- Richard Levinson, Robert E. Swanson, Stephen Lord, Peter S. Fischer, Booker Bradshaw, William Link & 1 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 42 ratings
- Network & studio
- NBC, Universal Television, Fairmont/Foxcroft Productions, Tom Ward Enterprises
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
