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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe — 1949
51 episodes broadcast in 1949.
An inventor dies in an explosion aboard his own yacht, and Marlowe sets out to put a name to the killer.
Driving through a coastal storm to a new client, Marlowe takes on the search for the missing Julia Perry -- and runs headlong into a murder, a suicide and a twist ending.
A dying man's cryptic scrawl, a jade figurine and a string of killings put Marlowe on the trail of a counterfeiting ring.
Sent to catch a blackmailer, Marlowe turns up a badly beaten pretty boy, a sultry con-woman and a man who proved an easy mark for murder.
A weak-hearted man, a phone number jotted on a register receipt and a body clear across town seem unrelated -- until Marlowe finds the thread that binds them.
On the trail of the proceeds of a bank job, Marlowe lands in tiny Lonesome, Arizona, where a corpse won't stay dead and a silenced pistol dooms a pair of big-city crooks.
February 19, 1949
The Flying Trapeze
February 26, 1949
The Big Mistake
A missing woman, a gambler shot dead and a vanished $25,000 trust fund draw Marlowe into a night of secrets and shadows.
A woman hires Marlowe for her scavenger hunt and is shot dead, turning a party game into a lethal chase through the city streets.
Identical twin pianists, $30,000 and a corpse leave Marlowe to sort the deadly sister from the harmless one.
A simple damage suit over a Hollywood gossip escalates into blackmail and murder, with a red-headed woman and an ambitious ghost-writer at the heart of it.
Summoned to a storm-lashed island to hear a supposedly dead man read out his own will, six heirs become the mark of a killer's cruel prank.
Marlowe is hired to learn why a muscle-bound goon is shadowing Eddie Mallet -- too late to keep Eddie off a concrete floor.
Marlowe is hired to find out why a burlesque dancer known as 'The Heat Wave' performs behind a golden mask, and murder crashes the act.
The hunt for a fabled Hawaiian relic draws Marlowe into intrigue and murder -- and to a dead man bearing his own name in a Honolulu lily pond.
Through heavy L.A. fog, Marlowe searches for a suicidal young woman and her strange sister, stumbling onto two killings along the way.
A daredevil motorcycle 'wall of death' act and a nervous millionaire's daughter put Marlowe in the path of murder at seventy miles an hour.
A single gambler's IOU means fortune, freedom or death to three men, and Marlowe is hired to find it before the girl in the cottage is killed.
On the San Pedro waterfront, a hot-tempered ex-con's grudge against a boat owner rises to murder as surely as the tide.
A gray sedan and a single black cuff link lead Marlowe from a blackmail scheme straight into a killing.
Marlowe is hired to run down a thief working a Mexican diamond mine.
Thirty missing rubies -- and a soft-eyed woman with an accent and a job to do -- draw Marlowe toward murder.
A routine hunt for a rich girl's fiance leads Marlowe to a silent, haunted house and a corpse that refuses to stay put.
Hired to keep a man alive, Marlowe fails badly and takes a bullet himself when a chuckling gunman called 'The Hippo' walks in.
A dude-ranch holiday turns to Western-style murder -- by horseshoe -- amid blackmail, silks and stolen emeralds.
July 9, 1949
The Quiet Number
An odd piece of jewelry tied to the local racetrack sends Marlowe past a burglar, a bookie and a big shot to a body.
A woman who hates the water takes a boat trip in old Mexico, and Marlowe absorbs a beating as an unseen victim is murdered.
A reformed forger dumps a beautiful corpse on Marlowe's bed and pleads for help, launching a case of lies and pistol-whippings.
The theft of a prized Indian bowl and the murder of Jimmy Brown Bear send Marlowe on the warpath, with a glamorous Apache woman in the mix.
A composer's death puts Marlowe on the scent of a blackmailer, with only a velvet matchbook to guide him.
A trial witness seems a shade too eager to testify, and Marlowe digs out the real murderer.
Hired to find a missing old-timer, Marlowe follows a two-named drifter from Montana into a Los Angeles murder.
A Nebraska schoolteacher chasing Hollywood glamour lands in serious trouble, and a single photograph helps Marlowe set things right.
A 15th-century tapestry and a half-faced stranger pull Marlowe into a deadly contest among rival collectors.
The murder of a cartoonist is no laughing matter, as two violent deaths clear the way for a third person's killing.
A traffic wreck outside his office pulls Marlowe into a double murder over $75,000 in gems and a waterfront 'mermaid.'
A beautiful amnesiac comes to Marlowe for help and is pushed to her death from his office window.
A washed-up wrestler, an alley quick-change artist and a scheming girl are all caught in a strangle hold over $100,000.
A search for a woman in black leads Marlowe through a roadside-inn murder, a warehouse gunfight and a girl already in the morgue.
A beautiful woman with cold green eyes and a laugh that never moves her lips lures Marlowe into danger.
A shattered body, a midnight shooting on a carousel and two young lovers in flight all trace back to one man's scheming.
November 19, 1949
The Sweet Thing
A parachute act's stunt turns fatal when a chute fails -- in the celebrated episode where Gracie Allen drops by to ask Marlowe to find George Burns a singing spot on the air.
A newsboy's plea to find his missing uncle takes Marlowe from a Hollywood street corner into a household seething with hate and murder.
A morning quarrel over a chicken grows into a case that ends on a gray dawn with a little wishbone snapped in two.
December 17, 1949
The Lowest Bid
December 24, 1949
Carol's Christmas
As the New Year's clock strikes twelve, Marlowe recounts two murders to a kindly, white-haired old lady.
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