Pat Novak for hire

[Hunter Lomire]

If there isn't a thread already, I'd like to discuss this classic radio show. I think that it is really good listening while walking or just sitting around. I don't have a favorite episode, but they are all quite good.

 

[CSG]

Big fan of the Jack Webb episodes. I like to listen in a darkened room whenever I listen to old radio shows. I have a 1936 Zenith tombstone radio that has a little MP3 connection wired in back so I can stream shows from archive.org and youtube through it rather than my modern stereo system.

 

[Hunter Lomire]

Big fan of the Jack Webb episodes. I like to listen in a darkened room whenever I listen to old radio shows. I have a 1936 Zenith tombstone radio that has a little MP3 connection wired in back so I can stream shows from archive.org and youtube through it rather than my modern stereo system.

Thats really cool. I used to listen to them in my phone while walking. Better than music sometimes.

 

[CSG]

It's great that so many of these shows are available to listen to again. Pat Novak is at the top of the heap for the detective genre IMO.

 

[Talbot]

I love Pat Novak! Jack Webb and Raymond Burr are great, and the scripts are taut and snappy. Lots of great one liners
http://patnovak.50webs.com/quotes.html

 

[Julian Shellhammer]

Just today listened to the first Webb network show (if I remember correctly) Jack of Clubs. Favorite simile: "It was like trying to weave a blanket with a spinning wheel and a bucket of sand." I'd like to go back and re-listen in broadcast order. This is one of my all-time favorite series.

 

[Talbot]

LE: Good evening.
PN: Yeah, thanks for knocking.
LE: I don't think you mind my coming in without warning.
PN: No, I get the cabbage smell from next door the same way.
LE: Does it pay to be that polite, Mr. Novak?
PN: It saves you the trouble of saying "please."