Tonight in 1972 — ELLERY QUEEN: DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU aired on NBC.

COLUMBO creators #RichardLevinson + #WilliamLink wrote this unsold pilot, starring (a miscast) #PeterLawford + #HarryMorgan.

They tried again in 1975 w/ #JimHutton + #DavidWayne, and it worked much better.

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #ElleryQueen #Columbo

47 years ago today:
Ellery Queen
S1E22: The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger
In the series' finale, Ellery probes the murder of a retired detective who was killed while investigating a five year old unsolved murder case.
Airdate: 1976-04-04
https://themoviedb.org/tv/13925/season/1/episode/22
#ElleryQueen #DavidWayne #JimHutton #NBC #tvshows

🎬 "You're a television watching, canned beer-drinking, Spanish suburban *stiff!"

"I don't want a lecture on marriage from a man spending Christmas Eve with a Cocker Spaniel Dog!"

#JimHutton to #AnthonyFranciosa—Southern "gentlemen" of two types—buddies in Korea back home in the States: "A Period of Adjustment" (1962). Tennessee Williams wrote those words in his novel of the same name; the screenplay was by #IsobelLennart

#FreddieMercury 💓 #jimhutton

Artwork by Serena Gomes (th3humanfruitloop)

#art

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