The World Series Crime (Aired October 8, 1942) Plus The W.P.N.M. Showcase Of Hits
Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influence of The Thin Man series was apparent in reverse", Tuska noted about Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery. "Ellery and Nikki are unmarried but obviously in love with each other. Probably the biggest mystery... is how Ellery ever gets a book written. Not only is Nikki attractive and perfectly willing to show off her figure", Tuska wrote, "but she also likes to write her own stories on Queen's time, and gets carried away doing her own investigations." In Ellery Queen, Master Detective, "the amorous relationship between Ellery and Nikki Porter was given a dignity, and therefore integrity", Tuska wrote, "that was lacking in the two previous entries in the series", made at Republic Pictures before Bellamy and Lindsay were signed by Columbia.
THIS EPISODE:
October 8, 1942. NBC network. "The Adventure Of The World Series Crime" AKA: "The Three Scratches". Sponsored by: Bromo Seltzer. The star of the World Series goes into a slump after his favorite bat has been stolen. Ellery is given only three hours to recover it! The "Guest Armchair Detectives" are Art Flynn of the Sporting News, Ken Sears of the New York Yankees and baseball player Joe Gordon. This is the West Coast broadcast. The East Coast broadcast took place on October 2, 1943. The script was used previously on October 10, 1942. Sydney Smith, Marian Shockley, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia, Art Flynn, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Ken Sears, Joe Gordon, Frederic Dannay (writer), Manfred B. Lee (writer), Bruce Kamman (producer, director), Charles Paul (organ). 29:32.
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