Tag: Hard Boiled

Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver (EP0047)

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

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

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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Case of the $100,000 Legs (EP0040)


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

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Pat Novak: Father Lahey (EP0037)

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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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Stolen Portrait (EP0035)

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

Original Air Date: April 1, 1949

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Pat Novak: Joe Condano (EP0032)

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

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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Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone (EP0027)

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

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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Pat Novak for Hire: Rubin Calloway’s Pictures (EP0022)

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

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Robert W. Perry Case (EP0020)

Johnny Dollar is assigned as a body guard to a highly insured businessman, who dies as soon as Johnny arrives. Now he must find the killer and find out if the insurance company that’s retained him has to pay off.

Original Air Date: March 4, 1949

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Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady (EP0017)

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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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Slow Boat From China (EP0015)

Johnny Dollar heads to Singapore to save an insurance company from a paying out $2500 day for a shipping delay. Trouble comes when Dollar finds the Insurance company’s man in Singapore missing.
Original Air Date: February 5, 1949
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Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern (EP0012)

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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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