Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabsb!bl From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Ellery Queen Revisited Message-ID: <3146@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 16:10:17 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsb.3146 Posted: Fri Nov 1 16:10:17 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:35:00 EST References: <3145@hplabsb.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 12 > 3. You had to know that they used 6-digit phone numbers back in the 1940's > (although there might have been a brief shot of Ellery trying to buy > flowers at a flower shop and you could see the shop's 6-digit > phone number on the front door). New York NEVER used 6 digit phone numbers. The producers thought it would be too much trouble to find an unused 7 digit number that could be used for the program. > The audience never really had a chance with this one. You know it!