Ellery Queen’s Minute Mysteries radio show (1965-1967, United States)
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1 minutes
Language
English
Ellery Queen is a name of a mystery writer living in New York City, who from time to time helps his father, who is a police inspector, to solve the most baffling murder cases the police have to deal with. The character appeared first in the books written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (who also used a pseudonym Ellery Queen for their writing duo), later on the radio, movies and on the television.
Ellery Queen’s Minute Mysteries were broadcast between 1965 and 1967 in a format similar to Five Minute Mysteries - there was a short introduction, the "case" was summarized in just a few sentences and after a pause the explanation was revealed to the solution of this "case". The word case needs to be put in quotations because often the presented mysteries were based around a single words used in the summary or required specific knowledge about some item, historic event or some trivia knowledge and not some creative thinking. After all, the one minute format (which included intro, outro, pause between summary) did not leave a lot of space for sublime or complicated puzzles.
While it had some similarities in style to the original radio series, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which was broadcasted between 1939 and 1948, the one minute format was hardly worth the effort. The episodes were used more as fillers between other programs rather than a stand-alone offering.
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That was a lot of cr*p, most of the cases did not even make much sense.
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