Based on their webpage, it looks like the same show. While it was made in the 70's, it was retro 1940's feel..With a dumb cop, a nosy newspaer reporter and in some episodes a smart aleck radio detective, played by John Hillerman, later of Magnum, PI..At the end of the show Ellery would invite the tv audience to guess the murderer..I loved this show..Would love to get it on DVD someday..even tape it off RTN once I get my setup done..