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The plot of most Pat Novak episodes could be summarized as follows:The show begins with Novak talking about the sign he put out, “Pat Novak for Hire,” and then the soliloquy turns into a discussion of what a forsaken hole the San Francisco Waterfront is, and how lowdown corrupt and awful everyone and everything around Pat Novak is.

Novak is then approached by someone who offers him an unseemly sum of money to perform an apparently mundane task. Novak is suspicious of the offer but when pressed agrees to take it against his better judgment because there’s money involved. Novak heads out to a location where he meets up with and mouths off to the wrong person landing him flat on his back unconcious. When he awakes, there’s a dead body beside him.Within a minute, he’s nose to nose with Inspector Hellman, who promptly threatens to prosecute Novak for murder.

Novak and Hellman then trade insults, and then fearing for his life (back in the 1940s, you didn’t have seventeen years worth of appeals on death row) Novak looks up the “only honest guy I know, an ex-Doctor and a boozer by the name of Jocko Madigan. A good guy… ” at which point Novak makes a witty remark about Jocko being a drunk.Jocko waxes philisophical about how Novak got himself into the mess, declaring Novak hopeless, but still agreeing to help, Novak cajoling him all the way. Jocko is off to question witnesses and research public records.

At some point along the way, Novak runs into a woman who says Hello in a seductive voice. Odds are that she’s a manipulative sociopath.In the middle of the case, Hellman will either call Novak on the telephone or taunt him in person and reveal some aspect of the police’s investigation. Jocko will gather some information. And either Novak or Jocko will put it all together, and once the dead bodies are all in the morgue and the surviving suspects are locked up, Inspector Hellman will have only one question and Novak will provide his sarcastic answer to end the episode.

The big difference between Nova 1947 rip-off of Pat Novak, Johnny Madero is that Madero looks up “the only good guy I know,” Father Leahy. Johnny Madero hailed from Pier 23, while Pat Novak was on Pier 19. As a later Jack Webb show would say, “The names were changed to protect the innocent.”

That said, Radio Fans of the era loved Webb as Pat Novak. Breen left KGO and Webb with him.  In 1947, KGO and ABC believed it could carry on Pat Novak without Novak and without writer Richard Breen. Letters poured in demanding that Webb be brought back, and in 1949 that’s just what happened.

What makes the series memorable? 

Two things. First, the dialogue was rich. As Novak (and Madero) Webb delivered hilarious and rich similes, and transformed the put down into an art form. Jocko Madigan’s soliloquies ranged from the sublimely wise to the hilarious. The show carried a sense of free verse poetry rarely match in old time radio.Secondly, the show had flashes of brillance. When Webb and Breen began their work on KGO, Webb was 26, Breen was 28. 

They were on the verge of success. Webb was three years away from creating the police procedural drama that would redefine the genre.  Breen was three years away from his first Writers Guild Award Nomination and seven years from an academy award.  In Pat Novak, the potential and promise of two young men on the verge of greatness shown through, particularly with the occasional departure from the show’s formula.

And while Pat Novak was hardly Dragnet for Private Investigators (i.e. a portrayal of what real life is like,) Novak was far more real than many of his hard boiled counterparts like the unflappable Sam Spade.

This feed  features all the surviving episodes of Pat Novak for Hire starring Jack Webb as well as both surviving episodes of Johnny Madero. The episodes are hosted by Adam Graham with commentary and listener comments and feedback. They are part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio podcast.]]>enPerforming ArtsCommentary Copyrightedhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/747a235b4869335ed5c25a783f254817.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/pat-novak-for-hire-the-great-detectives-Sun, 25 May 2025 18:18:01 +0000Adam GrahamThe Great Detectives of Old Time Radio's Pat Novak series, featuring 19 episodes of Pat Novak and two episodes of Johnny Madero, all starring Jack Webb as the master of hard boiled narration. Adam Graham is your guide to each similie in this iconic pre-DrThe Great Detectives of Old Time Radio's Pat Novak series, featuring 19 episodes of Pat Novak and two episodes of Johnny Madero, all starring Jack Webb as the master of hard boiled narration. Adam Graham is your guide to each similie in this iconic pre-Dragnet Jack Webb series.noepisodicOld,Time,Radio,pat,Novak,Jack,Webb,detectivebox13@greatdetectives.netAdam Grahamhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pat-novak-for-hire-little-jake-siegel--42748554
An altar boy is shot and killed in a church saving Novak’s life. Novak’s goal: get the killer.

Original Air Date: June 26, 1949

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An altar boy is shot and killed in a church saving Novak’s life. Novak’s goal: get the killer.

Original Air Date: June 26, 1949

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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Original Air Date: April 16, 1949

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned stop, trouble of the lethal kind ensues.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1949

Quotes:“Your men couldn’t follow a moose through a revolving door.”-Novak to Hellman

“You got a funny feeling that he didn’t walk into the night, that he was big enough to wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him.”

“Somebody had used to her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family.”

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A priest hires Pat Novak to intercept an escaping convict. However, when Novak allows the convict to make an unplanned stop, trouble of the lethal kind ensues.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1949

Quotes:“Your men couldn’t follow a moose through a revolving door.”-Novak to Hellman

“You got a funny feeling that he didn’t walk into the night, that he was big enough to wrap it around his shoulders and take it with him.”

“Somebody had used to her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family.”

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After being hired to pay off a beautiful woman’s brother’s gambling debt, Novak finds himself next to a dead body with Inspector Hellman on the way up.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1949

Quotes:

“I’ve run across better people in sewers.”

“You can’t add a pair of zeroes without crib notes.”-Novak to Hellman

.“Stop posing. You couldn’t follow an elephant across a basketball court.”-Novak to Hellman.

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After being hired to pay off a beautiful woman’s brother’s gambling debt, Novak finds himself next to a dead body with Inspector Hellman on the way up.

Original Air Date: March 27, 1949

Quotes:

“I’ve run across better people in sewers.”

“You can’t add a pair of zeroes without crib notes.”-Novak to Hellman

.“Stop posing. You couldn’t follow an elephant across a basketball court.”-Novak to Hellman.

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Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it’s going to be trouble.

Original Air Date: March 20, 1949

Quote of the Show:
She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rigamortis. And you knew the first time you met her that you’d been seeing her too often…She was as safe a tap dancer on a floor full of dynamite caps.

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Pat Novak gets an offer for $300 from a beautiful woman to stay away from boxer Rory Malone, and $300 from Malone’s manager. Whichever side he ends up on, it’s going to be trouble.

Original Air Date: March 20, 1949

Quote of the Show:
She was a lovely girl. The sort of person you expected to see in a Choir loft-about three hours after choir practice had ended. Her hair was red, her eyes were as cold as rigamortis. And you knew the first time you met her that you’d been seeing her too often…She was as safe a tap dancer on a floor full of dynamite caps.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Original Air Date: October 13, 1946 

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Original Air Date: October 13, 1946 

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