As of July 2026, Ellery Queen Season 1 aired in 1975 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Ellery Queen Season 1

1975 22 Episodes Mystery · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Ellery Queen Season 1 is currently streaming on major platforms, and its case-by-case structure never gets in the way of the bigger story. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. With 42 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Jim Hutton leads a cast that carries the story without ever feeling mechanical. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Ellery Queen Season 1 is worth clearing space for. Ellery Queen Season 1 treats its mystery as a means, not an end in itself. Season 1 of Ellery Queen includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1975 to April 1976. This season stars Jim Hutton, David Wayne and Tom Reese. Jim Hutton and David Wayne lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1975. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Ellery Queen Season 1 passes that test consistently. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Viewers who think they have seen every crime drama tend to find Ellery Queen Season 1 proves them wrong. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Jim Hutton carries scenes that would sink a lesser production. The resolution feels inevitable rather than arbitrary, which is rarer than it sounds.

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🎬 Ellery Queen Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne
1975-09-11
The time: 10:00 pm, New Year's Eve, 1947. The place: The ballroom of the Hotel Astor. The victim: Mr. Marcus Halliday. And the suspects (all the usual ones): the son (and his gold-digging girlfriend), the untrusted nephew, the long-time secretary (and her brand new fiance), and the new business part...
E2
The Adventure of the Lover's Leap
1975-09-18
A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murder? The twist: she was reading one of Ellery's own murder mysteries at the time and she died exactly the same way as the victim in the book.
E3
The Adventure of the Chinese Dog
1975-09-25
On a fishing trip to the town of Wrightsville, Ellery and Inspector Queen are dragged into the case of the murder of a wealthy man who was whacked over the head with an ornamental dog figurine meant as a wedding gift for his daughter and worth nearly half a million dollars. It seems as though two ri...
E4
The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader
1975-10-02
Ellery himself is a leading suspect in the murder of a comic book publisher with whom he'd clashed over how he was portrayed in the publisher's comics. It seems as though the man left a dying clue which apparently points to him. Ellery is forced to investigate in order to clear his name. Ole Frank F...
E5
The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express
1975-10-09
News mogul Henry Manners is murdered in an express elevator to the 12th floor of his building with nobody inside the elevator except the victim. The suspects include Manners' sister who had previously run the paper while her brother was absent in WW II, the right-wing columnist who was always gettin...
E6
The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance
1975-10-23
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.
E7
The Adventure of Colonel Niven's Memoirs
1975-10-23
A WW II spy, Colonel Alec Nivin, is on a book tour in New York concerning his memoirs in which he accuses a variety of people of war crimes and treasonous acts. Ellery's galpal, Jenny O'Brien, finds the erstwhile spy dead in his hotel room having been stabbed with an antique dagger. Everybody except...
E8
The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party
1975-10-30
Ellery and his agent, Howard Biggers, travel to the estate of the wealthy and eccentric Spencer Lockridge. It seems as though Biggers wants to turn one of Ellery's books into a play and is trying to get Lockridge to provide the financial backing. All goes for naught when Lockridge disappears while w...
E9
The Adventure of Veronica's Veils
1975-11-13
Burlesque producer Sam Packer is found dead of an apparent heart attack but he leaves behind a video to be shown at his funeral in which he states that no matter what it looks like, he will be murdered. Packer, in the video, asks radio mystery star Simon Brimmer to solve his murder. Packer's widow, ...
E10
The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Curse
1975-12-11
Norris Wentworth buys and brings an Egyptian sarcophagus to display at the world famous Tremane Museum. Wouldn't you know it, there's curse on the darn thing. The six previous owners have all kicked the bucket under mysterious circumstances. Needless to say, Wentworth becomes victim number seven but...
E11
The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument
1975-12-18
An awards dinner sponsored by the Crime Writers of America is being held at the residence of writer Edgar Manning who is the recipient of the Blunt Instrument Award. Ellery is not present at the dinner due to the fact that he's home sick with a head cold. Nasty, egotistical Manning calls up Ellery o...
E12
The Adventure of the Black Falcon
1976-01-04
Simon Brimmer arrives at a restaurant where he is to give a live-remote broadcast of his highly rated mystery radio program. Ellery and the Inspector are invited to attend. As you would figure, a murder is committed on the premises. One of the owners is poisoned by a bottle of wine. Can Simon beat E...
E13
The Adventure of the Sunday Punch
1976-01-11
A boxer is killed while training for a championship bout and the finger points towards his sparring partner, Joe Adams. Joe's girlfriend, Corrinne Ogden, seeks out Ellery for help in clearing her boyfriend's name. Ellery accepts the challenge of proving Joe's innocence but it seems that the dead box...
E14
The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer
1976-01-18
Heeeeeeeeeeere's Ed. Ed McMahon, that is, who plays a once brilliant but now seemingly senile inventor who is murdered in his electric train workshop. This one's a toughie because it appears as though no one could have entered or left the workshop during the time in which the murder must have taken ...
E15
The Adventure of the Wary Witness
1976-02-01
Ellery's old college chum, Linville Hagen, is accused of murdering mobster Nick Danello and Ellery must find a missing witness who can prove his innocence. This missing witness was a woman wearing a green dress. This description, of course, could fit any woman in New York. Ole Frank Flannigan comes ...
E16
The Adventure of the Judas Tree
1976-02-01
The Queens investigate when a wealthy industrialist and war profiteer is stabbed to death with a Chinese ceremonial dagger and then dragged out of his house and hung from a tree with a crown of thorns placed on his head. Just like one Judas Iscariot. As usual, plenty of suspects abound and when it's...
E17
The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario
1976-02-08
Ellery and the Inspector travel to Hollywood in order to watch the filming of an adaptation of one of Ellery's novels into a movie. At the studio, they meet the actors who will be portraying them. Gilbert Mallory, the egotistical no-talent assclown slated to play Ellery, is found murdered and once a...
E18
The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman
1976-02-29
Simon Brimmer once again fingers the wrong culprit in this tale about the murder of a socialite who was apparently leading a double life. The case has its underpinnings in events that happened in 1922 France. It's a hard road to the solution and Ellery takes the correct one as usual.
E19
The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley
1976-03-07
The radio payola scandals of the 1940's and 50's are recalled in this episode. Simon Brimmer once again tries to best Ellery and once again falls short. The plot concerns the murder of popular songwriter Alvin Winer during the musical interlude on a radio show when he goes to the station's record li...
E20
The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep
1976-03-14
Inspector Queen is in charge of protecting a mob witness but the witness is murdered before he can testify. Wouldn't you know it, the evidence points to none other than Sgt. Velie. The Inspector must also deal with rivals in the department who feel he's gotten long in the tooth and relies too much o...

🎭 Cast of Ellery Queen Season 1

Jim Hutton
Jim Hutton
Ellery Queen
David Wayne
David Wayne
Inspector Richard Queen
Tom Reese
Tom Reese
Sgt. Thomas Velie

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