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Season 5 (1/2)
*The Adventures of Ellery Queen* NBC Bromo-Seltzer Thursdays 9:30 - 10:00 pm 1943(198-210) East Coast version Saturdays 7:30 - 8:00 pm Producer/Director: Bob Steel Omroeper: Ernest Chappell Scripts: Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee Muziek: Charles Paul, organist Sterren: Sydney Smith,(Ellery), Santos Ortega (Inspecteur Queen), Ted de Corsia (Velie), Marion Shockley (Nikki Porter)

198*	"The Cafe Society Case" 10-05-44 or 10-07-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: W. Peterson East: Joe Laurie Jr., "Senator" Ed Ford, Harry Hershfield (3 of the 4 joke experts on radio's Can you top this?) A death-by-drowning mystery at a society set summer home. Any one of the three pedigreed gentlemen could have been the murderer, but Ellery needs just one guess.
199*	"Cleopatra's Snake" 10-12-44 or 10-14-44: 30:00* Nevins suspects Tom Everitt may have scripted this story Guest Armchair Detective West: Ken Sobol (author) East: Armand Denis (explorer/documentary filmmaker of Dangerous Journey a film which depicts the weird Hindu ritual of snake worship) Finds Ellery as backstage observer at a live production of "Antony and Cleopatra" for experimental TV when the genuine poisonous snake being used in the death scene bites to death the actress playing Cleopatra. Apparently there was a snake in the studio
200*	"The Airport Disasters" 10-19-44 or 10-21-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: unknown - pre-empted? East: Vaughn Monroe (orchestra leader, singer) Part of a series of EQ episodes to be restaged with Australian actors and local commercials. Airdate 04-01-55 (Episode 38) Ellery tries to brake up a sabotage ring assigned to wreck airplanes carrying important passengers. Just as Inspector Queen takes off in a plane targeted for destruction. Leonard Levinson doing the guest detective bit on the "*Ellery Queen*'' rebroadcast tomorrow (Thursday) night, says he's doing it just so the wife and kids in Hollywood can hear his voice. (Variety, Wednesday, October 18, 1944)
201*	"The Unfortunate Fisherman" 10-26-44 or 10-28-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Leonard Levinson (radio writer) East: Sophie Kerr (author) Ellery, Inspector Queen and Nikki go fishing in the North Woods.
202*	"The Election Day Murder" 11-02-44 or 11-05-44 :30:00* Repeat of "The Wandering Corpse" 08-13-39 Guest Armchair Detective West: Aline MacMahon (actress) East: Norman Siegel (syndicated radio columnist, radio editor of the Cleveland Press) Late on Election Night at the headquarters of a successful candidate the Queens are joining in the celebration. But tragedy strikes in an adjacent Turkish bath with Inspector Queen in somewhat of a jam, and Nikki Porter a not too helpful assistant.
203*	"The Booby Trap" (AFRS pre-broadcast sneak preview) 11-09-44 or 11-11-44: 30:00* AFRS Mystery Playhouse program "The Booby Trap" Sneak preview at the end of a program Mr. & Mrs. North "Pam Solves it" 08-09-44 Re-written as "Enter Ellery Queen" (Argosy, June 1960, reprinted as "The Mystery in the Library of Congress" in Q.E.D. (1968) Guest Armchair Detective West: Peter Donald (radio comedian) East: Nora Stirling (radio writer) Announced armchair detectives: Ken Roberts (quizmaster of Quick as a Flash) and Phil Baker (quizmaster of Take It Or Leave It.)
204*	"The Right End" 11-16-44 or 11-18-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Tom Slater (radio host) East: Red Barber (sportscaster) Football story dealt with airlines and Japanese battleships.
205*	"The Taste Test" aka "The Thespis Club" 11-23-44 or 11-25-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: unknown East: Fannie Hurst (novelist) An advertising agency launching a new health drink, invites Ellery to participate in a taste test. The agency lads think they have a natural in the beverage called "Etsat" (Taste spelled backwards). The tasting experiment becomes a natural setting for crime.
206*	"The Glass Sword" 11-30-44 or 12-02-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Jeanne Cagney (actress) East: Rouben Mamoulian (movie director) Ellery and Nikki Porter visit the circus, where the ace sleuth matches wits with the tiniest detective extant.
207*	"The Stickpin and the Ring" 12-07-44 or 12-09-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Victor Jory (actor) East: Ilka Chase (authoress, actress) A millionaire has been convinced by his personal astrologers that he lives under an unlucky star, and is to die before midnight.
208*	"Death on Skates" 12-14-44 or 12-16-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Barry Sullivan (actor) East: Frank Graham (radio announcer, magazine sports editor)
209*	"The Toy Cannon" 12-21-44 or 12-23-44: 30:00* Guest Armchair Detective West: Neil Hamilton (actor) East: Harriet Van Horne (radio critic/newspaper columnist)
210*	"The Inner Circle" 12-28-44 or 12-30-44: 30:00* Repeat of 04-23-42 or 04-25-42 "The Millionaires' Club"(Episode 83) Printed as a story in the Calendar of Crime (1952) Guest Armchair Detective West: R. Daigh East: Luise Rainer (actress) Part of a series of EQ episodes to be restaged with Australian actors and local commercials. Airdate 06-03-55 (Episode 47) Super-sleuth Ellery Queen, who never fails to get his man, plunges into high finance. Ellery intervenes when four members of a subgroup within a larger club if twelve rich men are seemingly threatened by a series of fatal accidents.

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