Ellery Queen (TV Series)

The Adventure of the Hardhearted Huckster (1976)

Ken Swofford: Frank Flannigan

Quotes 

• Frank Flannigan : VERA!

  [Vera comes running, carrying a thermos] 

  Frank Flannigan : Where have you been? It's almost time to go on the air, and there's nobody here but me!

  Vera : I've been over watching the butter commercial. I brought you some coffee, F.F.

  Frank Flannigan : I don't want any! I'm losing my marbles and you're bringing me coffee!

  Vera : I'm sure you'll want this coffee, F.F. It's the kind of coffee

  [with a meaningful look] 

  Vera : that you drink in the office.

• Ellery Queen : I don't like to read other people's mail.

  Frank Flannigan : Then I'll read it!

• Ellery Queen : I don't like going through other people's mail.

  Frank Flannigan : [eagerly snatches the letters]  The I will read it.

• Frank Flannigan : [seeing himself on TV]  Where'd I get that fat, white face? I look like a dead squirrel!

• Frank Flannigan : You call that a cigar? It tastes like the inside of a lumberjack's boot.