Ellery Queen is an American TV drama series, developed by Richard Levinson and William Link, who based it on the fictional character of the same name. The series ran for a single season on NBC from September 11, 1975, to April 4, 1976. Jim Hutton stars as the eponymous sleuth, along with David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen.
Main title design: Jack Cole & N. Lee Lacy
Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases. From 1929 to 1971, Dannay and Lee wrote around forty novels and short story collections in which Ellery Queen appears as a character.
Manfred Lee (left) and Frederic Dannay
Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen
Frederic Dannay (left) with EQMM contributor James Yaffe in 1943.
George Nader as Ellery Queen and Marian Seldes in the television program The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen.