- Simon Brimmer: That's your cue, Mr. Brady.
- Marcus Brady: My script says "pause". "Pregnant with suspense."
- Simon Brimmer: This is only a half-hour show, Mr. Brady. We can't wait out the full term of the pregnancy.
- Simon Brimmer: This is not a police case! This is a private murder!
- Inspector Richard Queen: "PRIVATE" murder?
- Ellery Queen: How do you have it figured? Was it the wife, or the comic, or the stripper, or the angel, or one of the long shots? Now, there's something I should have caught the first day I came here. Once you figure out how, you'll know who.
- DoDo: That's the one I can never remember. Lemme see:
- [starts to practice dance steps]
- DoDo: one, two, one-two-three. What comes next?
- Risky Ross: Try "four".
- Sam Packer: [post-humous film] I hope I get good reviews where I'm going. I'm just glad it isn't New Haven.
- Veronica Vale: He reads to me all the time from O'Neill and Ipsen...
- Ellery Queen: Ipsen?
- Veronica Vale: Yeah, I didn't know that Buddy wrote plays.
- Veronica Vale: [after Ellery laughs at her getting dressed behind a screen] Oh, That's different, on stage I'm an actress, backstage I'm a person.