"Too Many Suspects" is the first Ellery Queen episode...the pilot. Following its success, two seasons of the series were made. However, after watching this movie, I am actually very surprised any more episodes were made considering the solution to the crime was incredibly lame...so much so that I felt like I'd wasted my time watching the prior 90 minutes of the show!
When the story begins, a pretty lady is murdered and with her last gasp, she tries to leave clues for the police. However, the clues are misinterpreted AND the actual solution is ridiculous to say the least! The police assume the killer is the man with which she's having an affair (Ray Milland) but considering the show is called "Too Many Suspects" you know that sooner or later more possible killers are identified.
I had no problems with the acting (apart from the Prosecutor...who WAY overacted). Jim Hutton, David Wayne and the rest were just fine. The problem to all this is the solution...which seems like Ellery just yanked it out of his tush! And, while the solution is ridiculous and impossible to prove, the script does the cliches of having the real killer blurt out that they did it when the suspects are gathered into a group at the finale! All in all, a script which kept my interest...only to have the WORST resolution you could imagine. I'll try one or two more of these shows and if they are this bad, I'll just skip the rest.