Episodes

  • Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway's Pictures

    Pat Novak: Rubin Calloway's Pictures
    Oct 1 2024
    Original Release Date: November 24, 2009

    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 NovakNovak: 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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    34 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady

    Pat Novak for Hire: Fleet Lady
    Sep 24 2024
    Original Release Date: November 17, 2009

    Pat Novak’s hired to find a horse, and he finds the horse and a dead body.

    Original Air Date: March 6, 1949

    Quote of the show:
    Jockey: I want a horse. Can you find me a horse?
    Novak: Yeah, I breed them in the back room.

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    33 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern

    Pat Novak for Hire: Marcia Halpern
    Sep 17 2024
    Original Release Date: November 9, 2009

    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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    31 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: The Jack of Clubs

    Pat Novak for Hire: The Jack of Clubs
    Sep 10 2024
    Original Release Date: November 3, 2019

    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

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    38 mins
  • Johnny Madero: The Fatal Auction

    Johnny Madero: The Fatal Auction
    Sep 3 2024
    Johnny Madero is offered $50 to buy an item at an auction. His client disappears and before he knows it, Warchek from homicide is breathing down his neck.

    Original Air Date: June 26, 1947

    Some days you don’t make out any better than an ice cube at a cocktail party.

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    39 mins
  • Johnny Madero: Pete Sutro

    Johnny Madero: Pete Sutro
    Aug 27 2024
    Original Release Date: March 1, 2010

    A rich man from Nob Hill hires Johnny to find a man whose name he keeps hearing in his dreams.

    Original Air Date: June 19, 1947

    Quote of the Show: You have enough problems to start a peace conference.

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    34 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Go Away Dixie Gillian (1946)

    Pat Novak for Hire: Go Away Dixie Gillian (1946)
    Aug 20 2024
    Original Release Date: October 27, 2009

    Pat Novak is hired to frighten a man named Dixie Gillian, but when an empty gun goes off, he finds himself facing a murder charge.’
    “You couldn’t hold a moth with a searchlight.”-Pat Novak to Hellman
    Original Air Date: November 24, 1946


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    36 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: John St. John (1946)

    Pat Novak for Hire: John St. John (1946)
    Jun 6 2017
    An old man is killed and with his dying last word, he asks Novak to deliver a letter to John St. John.

    Original Air Date: October 13, 1946

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    35 mins