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Jack WebbPat Novak, For Hire (November 24, 1946)

Pat Novak, For Hire -
Detective Drama

Broadcast History :

1946-1947
ABC West ; Produced at KGO, San Francisco
Aired on the west coast only.

Cast :

Jack Webb as Pat Novak until spring 1947, then Ben Morris.

Jack Lewis as Jocko Madigan

John Galbraith as Inspector Hellman


Writer : Richard Breen, Gil Doud


February 13th - June 18th, 1949
ABC. 30m, Sundays at 7:00pm until April; Saturdays at 9:30pm until mid-May, then Saturdays at 8:00pm.

Cast : Jack Webb as Pat Novak, Tudor Owen as Jocko Madigan, Raymond Burr as Hellman

Announcer : George Fenneman

Orchestra : Basil Adlam

Director : Bill Rousseau


This audio is part of the collection: Old Time Radio

Author: Jack Webb
Date: 1946-11-24
Keywords: old time radio ; Pat Novak ; Jack Webb ; Crime Drama

Notes

Jack Webbs first radio crime drama.

An episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective had a character named Pat Cosak, a shot at this series.

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Reviewer: telegonus - - April 22, 2007
Subject: Wonderful Radio, Over The Top
Before Jack Webb became Sgt. Joe Friday he was Pat Novak, and on this short-lived series the tone was very different from the later DRAGNET, as it was a mystery series rather than a police procedural one. The stories themselves aren't extraordinary but the writing often is. Jack Webb's dialogue and narration comes off like Raymond Chandler at his wittiest and most sarcastic. Webb's deadpan (if you can call radio acting deadpan) delivery is perfect. At times the show almost seems like a send-up of detective series of the forties. I found myself laughing out loud more than once listening to this show. I suspect that the makers of PAT NOVAK had a good time when working on it. I certainly had a good time listening to it. Highly recommended.