bd64kcmo
This is a prime example of what TV can be. I enjoy the mental puzzle it presents, instead of the mass feeding of special effects, over-driven color, and whatnot of CSI Miami and shows like it. The perps are portrayed as human beings with motives, not these diabolical one dimensional monsters you see so much.I just watched "The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer" featuring the late Ed McMahon who played an inventor considered formerly brilliant, but now considered senile, working in his electric model train workshop in a quest to engineer automation into the economy. The dialogue spoke of "toy" trains (which hearkens back to another memorable quote in "The Flight Of The Phoenix" (1965) concerning "toy" airplanes). The engineer "programmed" (their words) the trains to stop for gate lowing and open switches, and used a spur to send messages with the main house.Anyway, my two cents.Brian
paige-595-964496
This is available on DVD, from NBC Universal/Entertainment1.Netflix has the entire series. I just received disc 1 today. The recording quality is good, and each disc contains three or four episodes."In a few minutes, this woman will be dead. The question is, who killed her? Was it the philandering . . . ." That is how each episode begins. As a kid, I loved this show and couldn't wait to hear that line each week. I remember thinking that the show was smart and sophisticated. Watching it now, 35 years later, it is still quality viewing.I would give it a 10 if it weren't for the anachronistic clothes, hairstyles, etc. It is supposed to be 1946, but it looks more like 1976.
Joseph P. Ulibas
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.
timothyadams1
Jim Hutton is one of the best actors to come out of Hollywood. His performance in the Green Berets with John Wayne is memorable and you come to connect with his character in a very intimate way. As Ellery Queen, Jim Hutton really became the character he played. His boyish good looks, mannerism, and characterizations where beyond measure. The show itself was very well written and the guest actors where also exceptional. I remember waiting in anticipation each week to watch the show. Every show was riveting and the plot superb. The series became the measuring stick I used to judge the quality of other mystery movies and series ever since. It was a great loss to the industry when he died from liver cancer.