What a beautiful movie!

good film but with many flaws

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I first watched this series after graduating from college. It was agonizing when Ellery turned and said "do you know who did it?" I'd scream NO! and quickly tear through my notes during the commercials to try to figure it out before the show returned. I recently bought the series on DVD and now, 35 years I am trying again to match wits with a little more success. This is the forerunner to Monk which repeated the concept of showing you all the clues and making you THINK instead of feeding you the answer. This is one of the most mind exercising series that has ever graced the tube. Too bad there were not dozens of episodes more than th one season. It was a jewel in what has been called a vast wasteland.

One of my favorite TV series of all time was this show, a must-watch leading into the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. Done by the same creative team that had given us "Columbo," "Ellery Queen" did that show one better by giving us a mystery to solve each week while using the same patterns of intricate clues that had made "Columbo" such a hit. I think NBC had high hopes for this show: it looks like they spent big money on it, meticulously re-creating New York City in the 1940s on Hollywood sets, getting the big-name guest stars, hiring a top-notch writing staff, and possibly giving the directors extra time to film and get things right. Maybe the show was too high-class for television, especially 1970s television, when Norman Lear's in-your-face, ultra-modern sitcoms ruled and Garry Marshall's escapist sitcoms were about to head for the top, while the dramas were epitomized by The Six Million Dollar Man (which was Ellery's competition during much of the year). TV networks always try to stay with the trends, although it seems like they always catch the trends at the tail end. Ellery was also Family Viewing Time material, after a programming edict by the networks which never caught on. But it even compares well with the immortal Murder, She Wrote, which came along a few years later (in the same time period) and became a 12-year hit. Catch the predecessor series if you can to see how the production team did it at their best.

Ellery Queen (1975) was another one of those amateur sleuth television shows that were so popular during the seventies. This series was based upon the detective mysteries stories of the fictional sleuth Ellery Queen (a father and son team). The two sleuths would solve seemingly impossible cases. Father and son would solve the cases with seemingly ease. But before they reveal the end of the mystery, the writer son would turn to the camera and quiz the audience if they know the answer.A cheesy crime drama that didn't last as long as it's competitors. I used to watch old episodes of this series on A & E (during the summer time when I was in high school). It was fun playing junior detective. Kind of like a vintage version of I-Detective. Harmless fun.Recommended.

And thus we approach the wrap-up for another Ellery Queen mystery. This direct audience involvement was just one of the great touches in this all-to-brief series. "You have all the clues..." Well - yes and no. For example, it might have helped to know that, in 1940's Manhattan, telephone numbers were 6 digits long, not the 7 digits we knew in the 70's, so the victim was REALLY dialing...(I won't give it away). OTOH, I had to stop reading TV Guide when I watched this show. This was back in the days when TV Guide had to stretch to fill pages, so they not only gave story synopses, they printed Guest Cast lists for network series. But unfortunately it seemed that The Killer was always listed first in the Guest Cast (or second if the victim was first.) And that was a clue that even dear Ellery lacked!