K.M. Richards <richard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Ellery Queen series with Jim Hutton ran in the 1975-76 season and
> was the lead-in to Mystery Movie during its last nine months (Ellery
> 8:00-9:00, Mystery Movie 9:00-11:00).  As MM had gone to two-hour
> episodes beginning with the previous season, perhaps NBC and Universal
> felt trying to do Ellery in that length would have been excessive?

As Jim Hutton would be dead from liver cancer in June 1979 (2 days
after his 45th birthday!), is it possible that he was simply unable to
continue the series?

-- 
Ed Dravecky III
http://www.fencon.org/

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