ROBIN CALLOWAY'S PICTURES and ROY MALONE PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE
Release Date: 05/28/2025
THE VAN DYKE SEANCE CASE and THE JEROME K, JEROME CASE RICHARD DIAMOND, P.I.
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
n 1945, Dick Powell portrayed Phillip Marlowe in the movie "Murder My Sweet" based on Raymond Chandler's novel "Farewell My Lovely". This was a radical departure in character for Mr. Powell from a Hollywood song and dance man to a hard-boiled detective. On June 11,1945, Lux Radio Theatre brought "Murder My Sweet" to radio, again with Dick Powell in the lead. These two performances prompted his selection for the part of Richard Rogue, in Rogue's Gallery after his role for Lux Radio Theatre and Richard Diamond came four years later. Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC in 1949. Diamond...
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THE BIG PRESS and THE BIG TOOTH DRAGNET
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers.[1] Actor and producer Jack Webb's...
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THE BIG MASK (PTS 1-2) DRAGNET
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Dragnet was an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers. Actor and producer Jack...
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THE MAN WITH THE KEY and THE TOO MANY MRS. ROGERS JEFF REGAN
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was...
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CAIN AND ABEL & THE SANTA MARIA and THE LADY WITH NO NAME JEFF REGAN PI
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was sometimes...
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THE MAN IN THE DOOR and THE HOUSE BY THE SEA JEFF REGAN CI
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was sometimes...
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THE DIAMOND QUARTET and THE MAN WHO CAME BACK CONFIDENTIAL INV JEFF REGAN
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was sometimes...
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THE LADY WITH THE GOLDEN HAIR and THE MAN WHO LIKED MOUNTAINS
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was sometimes...
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THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER and THE LONESOME LADY CONFIDENTIAL INVESTIGATOR JEFF REGAN
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s first partner in Dragnet, would make a guest appearance in the show playing a bit part named Joe Canto. The series was sometimes...
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NERVOUS SHAKEDOWN and EVERYBODY'S GUN ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON
1001 Radio Crime Solvers
THE ADVENTURES OF THE FALCON This hard boiled spy drama began as an RKO Radio Pictures theatrical serial in the 1940s, went on radio in 1943, and then came to TV around ten years later in a Syndicated series produced for distribution by NBC Films; the series was about an American agent whose code name was "Falcon". The success of the films led to a radio series that premiered on the American Blue Network in April 1943, and aired for the next ten years on various networks. It was here that his transition into a private eye was finalized, with The Falcon, now called Michael Waring working...
info_outlinePat Novak, for Hire is set on the San Francisco, California waterfront and depicts the city Pat Novak knows - a dark, rough place where the main goal is survival. Pat Novak is not a detective by trade. He owns a boat shop on Pier 19 where he rents out boats and does odd jobs to make money.
The series is popular among fans for its fast-paced, hard-boiled dialogue and action and witty one-liners. Each episode of the programs, especially with Jack Webb, follows the same basic formula; a foghorn sounds and Novak's footsteps are heard walking down the pier. He then pauses and begins with the line "Sure, I'm Pat Novak . . . for hire". The intro theme would start, during which Pat gives a monologue about the troubles along the waterfront and his job renting boats. Jack Webb narrates the story as well as playing Novak. He is cynical, and throws off lines such as "Around here a set of morals won't cause any more stir than Mother's Day in an orphanage ". He then introduces the trouble in which he finds himself this week. The dialogue is a continuous stream of similes typically found in pulp fiction. In So Long, Dixie Gillian, Novak describes a lady entering his show this way: "She sauntered in, moving slowly from side to side like a hundred and eighteen pounds of warm smoke. Her voice was alright, too. It reminded you of a furnace full of marshmallows."
Typically, a person unknown to Novak asks him to do an unusual or risky job, or he is suspicious because it sounds too easy. But Novak reluctantly accepts and quickly finds himself in hot water in the form of an unexplained dead body.