Ellery Queen

Episode 13

Air Date: 4 January 1976

Writer: Marc B. Ray

Director: Walter Donigel

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Howard Duff (Eddie Morgan), Signe Hasso (Flora), Tab Hunter (John Randall), Roddy McDowall (The Amazing Armitage), William Schallert (Alexander), Susan Stafford (The Hat Check Girl), Rosanna Huffman (Nancy McGuire), Lewis Charles (Nick Kingston), George Skaff (Maitre D’), Bob Basso (Waiter)

Episode Notes

• Business: Nick and Eddie’s

Episode 12

Air Date: 18 December 1975

Teleplay: Michael Robert David and Robert Van Scoyk

Story: Michael Robert David

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
John Dehner (George Tisdale), Eva Gabor (Magda), Richard Jaeckel (Nick McVey), Dean Stockwell (Cliff), Keene Curtis (Edgar Manning), Ellen Weston (Mary Parks), Clyde Kusatsu (Mateo), Robert Casper (Melville), Joanna Barnes (Camellia Justice)

Episode Notes

• Place: Cross Town Hotel
• Event: Crime Writers of America Annual Awards

Episode 11

Air Date: 11 December 1975

Teleplay: Peter S. Fischer

Story: Rudolf Borchert

Director: Seymour Robbie

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
June Lockhart (Claudia Wentworth), Ross Martin (Dr. Tremaine), Simon Oakland (Norris Wentworth), Nehemiah Persoff (Dr. Mustafa Haddid), Wallace Rooney (Harry the Guard), Nancy Belle Fuller (Margie Coopersmith), Joel Steadman (Bud Wentworth), Nedra Deen (Lois Gordon), Charles Macaulay (Art Critic), Gerald S. Peters (Gilbert), John Larroquette (Bellhop)

Episode Notes

• Business: Whitfield and Kimberly Publishers
• Newspaper: New York Gazette
• Sign: The Tremaine Museum ~ presents ~ Ancient Egypt ~ A Permanent Collection

Episode 10

Air Date: 13 November 1975

Writer: Robert Pirosh

Director: Seymour Robbie

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Julie Adams (Jennifer Packer), Jack Carter (Risky Ross), William Demarest (Alexander), Don Porter (Gregory Layton), Barbara Rhoades (Veronica Vale), Hayden Rorke (Marcus Brady), Joshua Shelley (Dick Bowie), Peter Hobbs (Dr. Steiner), John Dennis (Tolson), John H. Lawlor (Director), Romo Vincent (Gus Banana), Pat Sturges (DoDo)

Production Notes

• Cameo Appearance by George Burns (Sam Packer)

Episode Notes

• Year: 1947
• Place: The Packer Playhouse
• Sign: Sam Packer presents “Take It Off”

Episode 9

Air Date: 30 October 1975

Teleplay: Peter S. Fischer

Director: James Sheldon

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Edward Andrews (Spencer Lockridge), Jim Backus (Howard Biggers), Rhonda Fleming (Laura Lockridge), Larry Hagman (Paul Gardiner), Julius Harris (Doyle), Carmen Matthews (Letitia Allingham), Patricia Smith (Diana Gardiner), Julie Sommars (Emmy), Lew Brown (Lt. Carr), Olan Soule (Conductor), George Janek (Johnny Lockridge), William Benedict (Cabbie)

Production Notes

• Based on the Story by Ellery Queen

Episode Notes

• Town: Douglaston

Episode 8

Air Date: 23 October 1975

Writer: Robert E. Swanson

Director: Seymour Robbie

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Rene Auberjonois (Marcel Fourchet), Lloyd Bochner (Colonel Alec Nivin), Gretchen Corbett (Jenny O’Brien), Robert Loggia (Alexsei Dobrenskov), Pernell Roberts (Rosh Kaleel), Nina Van Pallandt (Sonja Dobrenskov), Peter Bromilow (Colin Esterbrook), Caryn Matchinga (Glenda Dunlap), Jonathan Hole (Dress Shop Manager), Claude Earl Jones (Mounted Officer)

Episode Notes

• Book: Memoirs of a Spy
• Business: Gotham Book Store

Episode 7

Air Date: 19 October 1975

Teleplay: Peter S. Fischer

Story: Richard Levinson, William Link and Peter S. Fischer

Director: James Sheldon

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Eve Arden (Vera Bethune), Nan Martin (Olivia Burns), John McGiver (Mr Pearl), Bert Parks (Larry Denver), Paul Shenar (Wendell Warren), Betty White (Louise), Penelope Windust (Anita Leslie), Beatrice Colen (Mary Lou Gumm), Gerald Hiken (Alvin Burns), Joseph R. Sicari (Gus Geropolis), Nina Roman (Grace), Sidney Miller (Morgue Attendant), Hilda Haynes (Nurse Frawley), Don Keefer (The Fence)

Episode Notes

• Newspaper: New York Gazette

Episode 6

Air Date: 9 October 1975

Writers: David H. Balkan and Alan Folsom

Director: Jack Arnold

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ken Swofford (Frank Flannagan), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
George Furth (Albert Klinger), Pat Harrington (Mitch McCully), Dina Merrill (Harriet Manners), Paul Stewart (Thornton Johns), Ruth McDevitt (Zelda Van Dyke), Kip Niven (Arthur Van Dyke), John Finnegan (Elevator Starter), Suzanne Arnold (Judy Adams), Sandy de Bruin (Sally), Kristen Larkin (Dorothy), Tyler McVey (Henry Manners)

Episode Notes

• Newspaper: New York Daily Examiner

Episode 5

Air Date: 2 October 1975

Writer: Robert Van Scoyk

Director: Peter Hunt

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Ken Swofford (Frank Flannagan), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Tom Bosley (Bud Armstrong), Lynda Day George (Alma Van), Donald O’Connor (Kenny Freeman), Eddie Fireston (Phil Collins), George Sperdakos (Vincent Porter), Joseph Maher (Lyle Shannon), Allan Landers (Ronald Himes), Herbie Faye (Moe Fletcher), Archie Johnson (Deputy Commissioner), Maggie Nelson (Vera Fletcher), Sandy Ward (Guard)

Episode Notes

• Book: The Adventure of the Purloined Gun by Ellery Queen
• Newspaper: New York Gazette
• Business: Capricorn Comics

Episode 4

Air Date: 25 September 1975

Teleplay: Robert Van Scoyk

Story: Gene Thompson

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Orson Bean (Warren Wright), Geraldine Brooks (Tilda McDonald), Katherine Crawford (Julia Wright), Murray Hamilton (Henry Palmer), Eugene Roche (Sheriff Oscar Eberhart), Robert Hogan (Gordon Wilde), Robert F. Simon (Eben Wright), Jerry Fogel (Deputy Brown), Hal Smith (Coroner Bailey), Bill Quinn (Minister), Dee Wallace (Waitress)

Episode Notes

• Town: Wrightsville

Episode 3

Air Date: 18 September 1975

Writer: Robert Pirosh

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
John Hillerman (Simon Brimmer), Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Don Ameche (Dr. Norman Marsh), Anne Francis (Evelyn Chandler), Jack Kelly (J.T. Latimer), Ida Lupino (Stephanie Kendrick), Craig Stevens (Jonathan Kendrick), Susan Strasberg (Kathy Kendrick), Jason Wingreen (Roy Miller), James Lydon (Radio Actor), Nina Roman (Grace), Basil Hoffman (Technical Print Man), John Lawlor (Radio Technician)

Episode Notes

• Newspaper: Daily Star
• Business: Vito’s Meat Market

Episode 2

Air Date: 11 September 1975

Teleplay: Peter S. Fischer

Story: Richard Levinson and William Link

Director: David Greene

Synopsis

Recurring Actors/Characters
Tom Reese (Sgt. Velie)

Guest Stars
Joan Collins (Lady Daisy Frawley), David F. Doyle (Donald Becker), Herb Edelman (Taxi Driver), Farley Granger (Paul Quincey), Guy Lombardo (Himself), Karen Machon (Kitty McBride), Charles Knox Robinson (Lewis Halliday), Barbara Rush (Emma Zelman), Ray Walston (Howard Pratt), Arch Johnson (The Commissioner), George Wyner (Joe Kemmelman), Peggy Rea (Madge Velie), Joseph Perry (Rawson), Lou Goss (McCoy), William Lanteau (Avery Dickson)

Episode Notes

• Time: Happy New Year 1947