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The announcer

posted 13 years ago by schleutker
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Anybody know who the announcer was that started each episode?

[–] 13 years ago

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I have no idea. Does anyone else know?

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Jim Hutton (1934-79) & Ellery Queen = 

That's a darn good question! A number of actors played characters credited as "announcer" on individual episodes -- I wonder if the "In just a few minutes" guy might have been one of them?

The IMDb "FAQ" page has two answers:

If it wasn't William Conrad, it was someone with the same voice.

and

Harry von Zell (1906-1981)

It was clearly NOT von Zell, who played "announcer" in the pilot "Too Many Suspects." His voice (which I know well from his years on the Burn & Allen show) was entirely different, more of a mellow old-school radio announcer.

As for Conrad, Mike / VBartilucci disputes that in a comment on a MeTV page about Conrad, saying "The narrator of The Invaders was William Woodson, who performed the same function on Ellery Queen in 1975...." IMDb does list Woodson (uncredited) for The Invaders, but not for Ellery Queen. I believe that IMDb can be edited by members, though, like Wikipedia, so I have no idea how authoritative it is.