place@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/17/85)
Does anyone remember the Ellery Queen TV series (1975-76) with Jim Hutton as Ellery and David Wayne as Inspector Queen? That was my favorite series of all time, which got me into reading Elery Queen novels and short stories. I would love to converse with others who enjoyed same. (I know there aren't to many of you out there, or the series would have lasted longer than one season.) Denise University of Illinois The Super-Computing Illini
yeff@Navajo.ARPA (10/22/85)
I remember the Ellery Queen series!!! Gee, that must have been like 6-7 years ago at least...I was like 11 or 12 at the time... I used to always guess, and almost never get it right...my favorite parts of them was when he would look at you and say "Do *YOU* know who did it???" or somrthing like that... who played him anyway?? A name like Jim Hustonn comes to mind, but I know that's not right jeff ellery-man
lo@harvard.ARPA (Bert S.F. Lo) (10/24/85)
> I remember the Ellery Queen series!!! Gee, that must have been like > 6-7 years ago at least...I was like 11 or 12 at the time... > > I used to always guess, and almost never get it right...my favorite parts > of them was when he would look at you and say "Do *YOU* know who > did it???" or somrthing like that... > > who played him anyway?? A name like Jim Hustonn comes to mind, but I know > that's not right > > jeff ellery-man The man who played Ellery Queen was Jim Hutton, Timothy Hutton's father. (Timothy Hutton as in "Ordinary People", "Taps", "The Falcon and The Snowman" "Turk 182" ...) _____________________Bert S.F. Lo (lo@harvard.HARVARD.EDU)_____________________
morrell@hplabsb.UUCP (10/24/85)
> > Does anyone remember the Ellery Queen TV series (1975-76) with Jim > Hutton as Ellery and David Wayne as Inspector Queen? > That was my favorite series of all time, which got me into > reading Elery Queen novels and short stories. I would love to > converse with others who enjoyed same. (I know there aren't to > many of you out there, or the series would have lasted longer than > one season.) > > Denise > University of Illinois > The Super-Computing Illini I remember the series very well. It is currently being shown each week in the San Francisco Bay Area (channel 7). Its been a long time since I saw the episodes originally and some of the ones I see now, I don't recognize. Even if I do, I still have trouble figuring out whodunit! The series also got me interested in the novels. I have read quite a few of them. I even recorded the theme song ( I think its one of the best on TV).
morrell@hplabsb.UUCP (11/01/85)
I think one of the worst and most contrived EQ episodes was the one
with Joan Collins where this old man was giving a New Year's Eve Party
and announces to his heirs at the dinner table that he is going to cut them
all out of his will and that he was going to talk to his lawyer in the
morning (he might just as well wear a neon sign that flashes "Please kill me").
The man goes to make a phone call and is found stabbed in the phone booth.
The person on the other end of the phone was a complete stranger. Ellery is
called in to figure out why a man would call someone he didn't know.
It turns out the victim was very "lucky". He dialed the name of his killer
on the phone (of the six suspect heirs, only one had a last name which could
be spelled out as a phone number).
The major problems with this episode are:
1. The audience only hears the names of the heirs spoken (and only once r
twice). They never see them written.
2. I don't know how Ellery explained away the fact that maybe a first name
was used (Ellery actually solved this one without even knowing the
phone number dialed).
3. You had to know that they used 6-digit phone numbers back in the 1940's
(although there might have been a brief shot of Ellery trying to buy
flowers at a flower shop and you could see the shop's 6-digit
phone number on the front door).
The audience never really had a chance with this one.bl@hplabsb.UUCP (11/02/85)
> 3. You had to know that they used 6-digit phone numbers back in the 1940's > (although there might have been a brief shot of Ellery trying to buy > flowers at a flower shop and you could see the shop's 6-digit > phone number on the front door). New York NEVER used 6 digit phone numbers. The producers thought it would be too much trouble to find an unused 7 digit number that could be used for the program. > The audience never really had a chance with this one. You know it!
hobs@ihu1n.UUCP (John A. Hobson) (11/04/85)
> I remember the Ellery Queen series!!! Gee, that must have been like > 6-7 years ago at least...I was like 11 or 12 at the time... > > who played him anyway?? A name like Jim Hustonn comes to mind, but I know > that's not right Jim Hutton was the actor's name. He died a couple of years ago. I remember him in two John Wayne movies: The Hellfighters (which managed to make Red Adair's oil well fire fighting dull) and The Green Berets, which I saw in Viet Nam and which we all thought was funny, especially the last scene when Wayne is on the beach at Cam Ranh Bay as the sun sets on the South China sea-- the sun is setting in the east! -- John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihu1n!hobs