The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950)

Crime · Drama · Mystery

The first TV adaptation of the adventures of super sleuth Ellery Queen, broadcast live from Hollywood. Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correction solution by purely deductive reasoning.

IMDb rating: 6.2 (83 votes)
Episode average: 5.6 -0.6 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1950)

5.60 avg 3 episodes 4.8 → 6.5 28 min avg

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Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
10	The Hanging Acrobat	4.8	33
24	The Adventure of the Man Who Enjoyed Death	5.5	14
29	Death Spins a Wheel	6.5	15