Ep.317 Pat Novak For Hire: Rubin Calloway's Pictures

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Pat Novak For Hire: Classic old time radio showing starring Jack Webb (1946, 1949) and Ben Morris (1947-48) as Pat Novak, a street wise guy who rents boats and anything else a good man pays a bad one to do. Novak is always getting into scrapes when taking on jobs for hire or occasionally as a favor to a friend. When he does, he goes to see "The Only Honest Guy I Know" an ex-Doctor and a boozer named Jocko Madigan (played by Tudor Owens). Novak's nemesis is Lieutenant Hellman of Homicide (pla...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.
0:21.4	I'm your host, Stevie K.
0:23.3	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester.
0:26.7	For this episode, I bring you Pat Novak for hire, episode titled Ruben Calloway's Pictures,
0:34.0	originally aired March 13, 1949,
0:40.7	where Novak comes across a man tossed him to the bay,
0:42.9	who gives him a key to a bus locker,
0:48.0	and a woman pays him $200 to bring her the contents of the locker.
0:51.3	So sit back and relax,
0:56.0	and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening.
1:07.3	Pat Novak for higher.
1:10.7	Oh! Novak for For hire.
1:35.8	Oh. That's what the sign out in front of my office says, Pat Novak for hire.
1:58.4	Oh, you don't get in the blue book that way, but you don't embarrass your friends either.
2:03.1	Because down on the waterfront in San Francisco, they don't separate the good and the bad.
2:08.1	They let them run together. Before long, you got a cast system. You're either alive or dead.
2:15.3	If you're on top, you keep fading the crowd
2:17.6	and trying for sevens
2:18.8	until you lose the dice.
2:20.9	It's about the only way to play it
2:22.2	unless you like worms.
2:24.8	I rent boats
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