Tag: Hard Boiled

EP0062: Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant

Pat Novak’s hired to deliver a geranium. He’s hit by a car after the pick-up and that’s just the start of his trouble.

Original Air Date: May 14, 1949

I got the idea he didn’t know what he was doing, but you could say for a lot of Senators-Pat Novak.

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EP0060: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Murder Ain’t Minor

Johnny Dollar makes a rare exception and takes on a private client seeking for a 19-year old woman he wants to remove as a beneficiary from his life insurance policy.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1949

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EP0055: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Who Took the Taxis for a Ride

Johnny Dollar is called in when a taxi company has several of its taxis stolen and the drivers beaten.

Original Air Date: July 24, 1949

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EP0052: Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy

A gunsol steals a boat from Pat Novak, and winds up dead, and when Novak goes to the Hotel he finds a nightclub singer dead. As usual, Hellman’s ready to pin the crime on Novak.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1949

Quotes of the Show:

“Those two killings are tied up like ham and eggs.”

“People just hate their enemies, but they kill their friends.”

“Somebody was on my bed. Either that or the landlord had installed an echo.”

“Smart talk’s not going to keep you out of the chair, Novak. Stay handy, we’ve only got a short extension cord.”-Inspector Hellman

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EP0050: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Barton Drake Case

 

An insurance company hires Johnny Dollar after a notorious gangster who was covered by life insurance and presumed dead is seen attending a prize fight.

Original Air Date: April 22, 1949

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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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EP0045: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: How I Played Santa Claus And Almost Got Left Holding the Bag

Johnny Dollar is called into investigate a series of thefts in the department store. When a store detective is shot, the case takes on a more menacing turn.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1949
 
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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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EP0040: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Case of the $100,000 Legs


Johnny Dollar is sent to protect an actresses legs as part of a publicity policy. He arrives to find her murdered and him the prime suspect.

Original Air Date: April 15, 1949

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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EP0035: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stolen Portrait

Johnny Dollar heads to London in search of a rare stolen painting.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1949

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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.

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EP0030: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Milford Brooks III Matter (Charles Russell Cut)

Johnny Dollar has to keep a young man from committing suicide and costing his insurance company $2 million. The benficiary on the policy: a ruthless gambler who the young man owes big money to.

Original Broadcast: March 25, 1949

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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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EP0025: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Murder’s a Merry Go Round

Johnny Dollar heads out to investigate a series of accidents at a carnival, only to find that murder is on the agenda.

Original Broadcast: March 11, 1949

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