Ellery and Richard try to find the truth on whether a defendant on trial for murder is actually the killer or notEllery and Richard try to find the truth on whether a defendant on trial for murder is actually the killer or notEllery and Richard try to find the truth on whether a defendant on trial for murder is actually the killer or not
Katherine Woodville
- Priscilla Hagen
- (as Kate Woodville)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was by far the highest-rated episode of the series, going up against two low-rated specials.
- GoofsThe doctor says that March 13 was a Friday. The story takes place in 1947, when March 13 was a Saturday. The nearest Friday, March 13s were in 1942 and 1953.
- Quotes
Frank Flannigan: I can't sit on this story much longer.
Inspector Richard Queen: You'll sit on it or you'll sit in jail!
Frank Flannigan: You can't do that!
Inspector Richard Queen: I can't, huh? Velie, take this gentleman down and book him for... hanging around!
Featured review
Perhaps the high point of an exceptional series
Episode 15, "The Adventure of the Wary Witness" may be considered the finest entry in the entire series (one could make such a claim for every episode, they were all excellent). We begin in the courtroom, where Linville Hagen (Dwayne Hickman) is on trial for the cold-blooded murder of notorious gangster Nick Danello (an unbilled James Demopoulos). The defense attorney, Leo Robert Campbell (Michael Constantine), contends that an unseen assailant fired the fatal shot with Hagen's stolen handgun from the fire escape, and that there was a female red-haired witness who disappeared when Hagen retrieved his gun (conveniently tossed into the room) and fired two additional shots himself in the direction of the killer. Locating the missing woman, Dottie Lomax, proved fruitless in the months leading up to trial, so the District Attorney (Richard Sargent) has proceeded on the assumption that there was no witness. In the meantime, the Danello family has vowed revenge for Nick's death, while the missing witness turns up shot by another assailant on another fire escape, just as the jury begins its deliberations. Ken Swofford makes his fourth appearance as Gazette columnist Frank Flannigan, less intrusive than usual, who aids Inspector Queen by publishing the story of the wounded witness, without revealing the knowledge that the killer was successful in his fatal task. It is also Flannigan, due to a barroom fracas, who provides the final clue in the solution of the case. Lovely redhead actress Jackie Russell is actually seen for only a few seconds in a silent bit as Dottie Lomax (erroneously listed in the credits as 'Virginia') in the opening sequence depicting the Danello murder (she wore a fetching bikini in one episode of KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, "The Werewolf"). Cesar Romero is a welcome presence as Armand Danello, Nick's father, while Nick's brother James is played by the dependable Sal Mineo, in his penultimate TV appearance before his untimely death on Feb. 12, 1976 (this was broadcast on Jan. 25).
- kevinolzak
- Oct 15, 2009
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- Runtime48 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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What is the Spanish language plot outline for The Adventure of the Wary Witness (1976)?
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