Television
In the early 1970s, Hutton began working almost exclusively in television and played the title role of Ellery Queen in the 1975 made-for-television movie that led to the 1975-1976 television series, Ellery Queen. Hutton's co-star was David Wayne, who portrayed his widowed policeman father. In the series (set in New York in 1946-1947), Hutton portrayed a crime novelist and amateur crime solver who assisted his father on murder cases and tried to find out "whodunit," with the added twist of breaking the fourth wall and involving the viewer in solving the mystery.
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