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Detective Programs (2930 words) |
 | Both series are the work of writers, directors and producers with long experience in the crime genre and a specific history of collaboration with their stars. |
| Recent scholarship on popular culture would suggest in the broadest sense the TV detective show is part of a larger cultural project in which the conventions of genre function in part as enabling devices, their reassuring familiarity licensing an exploration of topics that might otherwise be too disturbing or threatening to acknowledge or discuss openly. |
| In this the TV series embodies a great and useful truth: that culture itself is a process, a shifting, unequal, endless contention among traditional and emerging forces. |
| Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (1152 words) |
| Radios Ellery Queen was a New York mystery writer with a talent for solving crimes, and because his methods involved the science of deduction he was often compared to an equally famous sleuth who operated out of 221-B Baker Street in London, England. |
| Assisting Queen was his right-hand man was one Sergeant Velie, who often referred to Ellery as Maestro. Both men often relied on Ellerys talents to assist them in cases that were too complicated for the long arm of the law. |
| Ellery (Sydney Smith) must come to the rescue of a baseball team in the World Series when their star sluggers lucky bat is missing. |
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