Episodes

  • 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
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Dixie Gillian (1949)

    Pat Novak for Hire: Dixie Gillian (1949)
    Jun 24 2014
    Original Release Date: June 24, 2014

    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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    33 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry

    Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix Up at the Laundry
    Oct 29 2024
    Original Release Date: December 22, 2009

    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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    36 mins
  • Pat Novak: Father Lahey

    Pat Novak: Father Lahey
    Oct 22 2024
    Original Release Date: December 14, 2009

    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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    37 mins
  • Pat Novak: Joe Condano

    Pat Novak: Joe Condano
    Oct 15 2024
    Original Release Date: December 8, 2009

    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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    35 mins
  • Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone

    Pat Novak for Hire: Rory Malone
    Dec 1 2009
    Original Release Date: December 1, 2009

    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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    34 mins
  • 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