The Adventures of Ellery Queen
CBS / NBC / ABC
CBS / NBC / ABC · 1939–1948
Broadcasts
60
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1939
The run
- Network
- CBS / NBC / ABC
- Years active
- 1939–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 60
- Genre
- mystery
The Adventures of Ellery Queen ran from 1939 into the late 1940s, adapting the Ellery Queen mysteries and famously pausing before the solution so a panel of guest armchair detectives could guess the culprit. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 88 years on the air, with 86 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 17 Jun 2025
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 24 Jun 2025
- 3. Sign Off · 1 Jul 2025
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 20 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 35 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 50 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 28 min
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 43 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 58 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 21 min
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CBS / NBC / ABC in 1939–1948
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