Episodes

  • Pat Novak for Hire: Joe Dineen

    Pat Novak for Hire: Joe Dineen
    Dec 31 2024
    Original Release Date: February 16, 2010

    Two men kidnap Pat Novak from a wrestling match and demand he take them to a man Novak doesn’t know by the name of Joe Dineen.

    Original Air Date: June 19, 1949

    The only way to make friends around the waterfront is to die.

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    36 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Georgie Lampson

    Pat Novak for Hire: Georgie Lampson
    Dec 24 2024
    Original Release Date: February 9, 2010

    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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    36 mins
  • Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton

    Pat Novak: Agnes Bolton
    Dec 17 2024
    Original Air Date: February 2, 2010

    Pat Novak is hired to follow a woman, and while he’s doing it, she drops dead in a phone booth, 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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    41 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John (1949)

    Pat Novak for Hire: Give Envelope to John St. John (1949)
    Dec 10 2024
    Original Release Date: January 26, 2010

    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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    34 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant

    Pat Novak for Hire: The Geranium Plant
    Dec 3 2024
    Original Release Date: January 19, 2010

    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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    35 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris

    Pat Novak for Hire: Wendy Morris
    Nov 26 2024
    Original Release Date: January 12, 2010

    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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    34 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy

    Pat Novak for Hire: Rita Malloy
    Nov 19 2024
    Original Release Date: January 5, 2010

    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.”

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    35 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver

    Pat Novak for Hire: Sam Toliver
    Nov 12 2024
    Original Release Date: 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

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    37 mins