Pat Novak for Hire « The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

29Dec/090

EP0047: Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver

Pat Novak does a favor for a friend out of prison and picks up a package. He returns to his office to find a cop standing over a dead body.

Original Air Date: April 23, 1949

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22Dec/090

EP0042: Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry

When Pat Novak gets the wrong bundle at the laundry, he tries to switch with the man who was given his shirts. Novak is knocked out and wakes up next to a dead body. Par for the course, Hellman suspects him of murder.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1949

Quotes:

You’re not going to make any more headway than a hummingbird in a wind tunnel.

Novak (to Hellman): You couldn't track down a live bear in a telephone booth.

Hellman: I'll make a try on you, Mister. And when I'm through there'll be enough to put you in that gas chamber.

Novak: They could save money and do the same thing.

Hellman: Huh?

Novak: They can lock me in the same closet with you.

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15Dec/090

EP0037: Pat Novak: Father Lahey

A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned stop, trouble of the lethal kind ensues.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1949

Quotes:

"Your men couldn’t follow a moose through a revolving door."-Novak to Hellman

"You got a funny feeling that he didn’t walk into the night, that he was big enough to wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him."

"Somebody had used to her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family."

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8Dec/090

EP0032: Pat Novak: Joe Condano

After being hired to pay off a beautiful woman's brother's gambling debt, Novak finds himself next to a dead body with Inspector Hellman on the way up.

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Quotes:

"I've run across better people in sewers."

"You can't add a pair of zeroes without crib notes."-Novak to Hellman.

"Stop posing. You couldn't follow an elephant across a basketball court."-Novak to Hellman.

(Picture Courtesy: Digital Deli.)

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1Dec/090

EP0027: Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone

Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone's manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it's going to be trouble.

Original Air Date: March 20, 1949

Quote of the Show:

She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rigamortis. And you knew the first time you met her that you’d been seeing her too often...She was as safe a tap dancer on a floor full of dynamite caps.

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24Nov/090

EP0022: Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway’s Pictures

Pat Novak comes across a man tossed in the bay, who gives him the key to a bus locker. A woman pays him $200 to bring her the contents of the locker.

Quotes:

"It was like washing your kid's face and finding out he was ugly to begin with."-Pat Novak

"You couldn't strike oil in a filling station."-Pat Novak

Novak: And you're going to tell me he's dead, Hellman.
Hellman: No, I'm not going to tell he's dead, Novak. He might be a soft breather.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1949

Picture Courtesy of Digital Deli

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17Nov/090

EP0017: Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady

Pat Novak's hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.

Original Air Date: March 6, 1949

Jockey: I want a horse. Can you find me a horse?

Novak: Yeah, I breed them in the back room.

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10Nov/090

EP0012: Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern

(Courtesy of Digital Deli.)

A woman with apparent amnesia stumbles into Pat Novak and then dies. Novak has to find out who she really is before Hellman rushes him off to the gas chamber.

Quote of the Episode:

"If I didn't move fast, I was deader than a Philadelphia nightclub."

Original Air Date: February 27, 1949

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3Nov/09Off

EP0007: Pat Novak for Hire: The Jack of Clubs

When Pat Novak finds $1000 depsited in his bank account and a beautiful woman who wants him to find a Jack of Clubs, he runs into murder.

Original Air Date: February 20, 1949

"You can't find your hip pocket with radar."-Pat Novak to Hellman

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27Oct/090