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Join us for a compilation of six old time radio detective stories from our 9th and 10th week of podcasts. We’ll be skipping the Christmas episodes and including them in a future compilation.
Box 13: Book of Poems
Original Release Date: December 21, 2009
Dan receives a book of poems in Box 13 that takes him back to a fire he covered ten years ago when working for the Star-Times.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1948
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday and Sylvia Picker as Susie
Pat Novak: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry
Originating in Hollywood
Original Release Date: December 22, 2009
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.
Originating in Hollywood.
Starred: Jack Webb as Pat Novak, Raymond Burr, Tudor Owen
Box 13: The Great Torinio
Original Release Date: December 28, 2009
Dan is asked to help a magician’s assistant who’s afraid that a jealous magician will create an accident during a dangerous trick.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1948
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday and Sylvia Picker as Susie
Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver
Original Release: December 29, 2009
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
Originating in Hollywood.
Starred: Jack Webb as Pat Novak, Raymond Burr, Tudor Owen
Let George Do It: The Wolf Pack
Original Release Date: December 30, 2009
A teenage girl asks George to help a boy out of jail on a bum rap to avoid returning.
Original Air Date: April 26, 1948
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as George Valentine, Frances Robinson as Brooksie
Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colourman
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Original Air Date: December 31, 2009
Sherlock Holmes lets Doctor Watson take the lead in investigating a missing person’s case involving the wife of retiree Josiah Amberly.
Original Air Date: March 25, 1940Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Doctor John Watson
Original Release Date: December 11, 2009
Volume 1 Compilation Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDFIOdWlnzL-YP6EZpi6JI1nLn6Hm4tAI
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:15 Box 13: Book of Poems
00:30:43 Imagining a Pat Novak for Hire Christmas Episode
00:36:06 Pat Novak: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry
01:05:06 Box 13: The Great Torino
01:36:22 Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver
02:12:26 Let George Do It: The Wolf Pack
02:45:55 Extended Discussion of Basil Rathbone
02:52:37 Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colurman
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I could swear I heard Alan Ladd say, "I brang down the curtain…."