On Jun 28, 5:33 am, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > The original two-hour pilot for Ellery Queen aired as a special episode of > the Sunday Mystery Movie in the spring of 1975. On the Ellery Queen DVD set, > the version of the pilot used is a syndication copy, retitled "Too Many > Suspects," in which the series' regular theme song (by Elmer Bernstein) is > replaced by the soundtrack of the standard Mystery Movie opening credits: > the Mystery Movie theme (by Henry Mancini), complete with Hank Sims > announcing "tonight, a special Mystery Movie presentation..."
I have the DVD set and I've seen that pilot episode. It seemed (to me) to move much too slowly compared to the hour-long episodes that followed it. Which is pretty much my point in saying that perhaps the two-hour format would have been detrimental to the series, and NBC may have realized that and ordered it as a standalone hour rather than a MM spoke. I can't picture Lawford and Morgan doing the Hutton and Wayne parts, either. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
