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You can access them right from the top of the site. Well now we're going to return

to the adventures of Philip Marlow. And we aren't going to start back with the Gerald

Moore series, which is the better known and more popular a series that continued on for

two years and then came back as a summer replacement series from 1948 to 50

and then summer of 51. We're going to start out with the first

Philip Marlow series, which was a summer series that starred Van Heffland and aired

over NBC and was sponsored by Pepsident. At this point Van Heffland was very much a big

up and coming star in Hollywood having won a best supporting actor Oscar, although these days

he's probably best remembered for his work on Shane, where he was not the main

character of that honor fell to Alan Land. But at any rate, this episode that we're going to play today

was the third episode in the series, original air date July the 1st, 1947. And this one's

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