Bob Hug
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As far as the Ellery Queen episodes are concerned, this is the only one with Richard Hart that I'm aware of on a commercially released DVD. The show started in early October, 1950 and Hart passed away in early January 1951, so it's a bit morbid watching him in this episode, just a few months or, possibly, even weeks before he suffered a fatal heart attack. There is another Ellery Queen episode on DVD with Hart's replacement, Lee Bowman (of "Miami Undercover" fame), that I have on some classic TV collection, but I think that's been it for this rare series. It would be interesting to see how many of the Ellery Queen kinescopes are still in existence . . . . . since it was a DuMont Network show, I can't imagine that many are still around.