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History, The Way It Wasn’t

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Time for an inaccuracy rant. History.com posted this item for today in History for February 13, celebrating the debut of “Jack Webb’s first crime drama” on February 13, 1949 when Pat Novak began airing. 

The problem?

Webb had been doing crime dramas for nearly 2 1/2 years. He’d done an undetermined number of Pat Novak episodes in San Francisco in 1946-47 and then did 20 weeks of Johnny Madero on Mutual and 23 weeks of Jeff Regan on CBS before Pat Novak’s national premier on ABC in 1949. 

It’s great that history.com remembered Jack Webb. It’d be nice if they got their facts straight. I’d ask for the just the facts, but Joe Friday never said that either.

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EP0077: Pat Novak for Hire: Georgie Lampson

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Novak is hired by an old flame and finds himself once again, in the thick of a murder investigation.

Original Air Date: June 12, 1949

“Houdini couldn’t get out of that one in two hours, with both hands, and a can of olive oil. It was like chasing cyanide with a bucket of brandy: it tastes bright, but it’s only a matter of time.”

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EP0072: Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton

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Pat Novak hired to follow a woman, and while he’s doing it, she drops dead in a phone book and once again Hellman puts the finger on Novak.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1949

Hellmann lifted his head up and laid him across the seat. The light was bad, but you could see a little of his face. It was watering around his forehead, and the damp hair was plastering around his hat brim. The perspiration had broken up and started to run down his forehead like tears. And you got the idea he cried out of his hairline instead of his eyes.

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EP0067: Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John

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A dying man gives Novak an envelope with the mission to deliver it to John St. John.

Original Air Date: May 22, 1949

“I hit the floor and made Rip Van Winkle look like an insomniac.”

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EP0062: Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant

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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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EP0057: Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris

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Pat Novak is hired by an attorney to keep an eye on a woman whose husband has returned from the Navy. The Attorney alleges the husband is an imposter.
“She was right about that hotel. In a good season, they couldn’t draw trenchant mice.”
Original Air Date: May 8, 1949
 
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EP0052: Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy

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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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EP0047: Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver

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

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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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EP0037: Pat Novak: Father Lahey

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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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EP0027: Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone

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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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EP0022: Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway’s Pictures

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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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EP0017: Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady

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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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EP0012: Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern

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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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EP0007: Pat Novak for Hire: The Jack of Clubs

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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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