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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe — 1950
38 episodes broadcast in 1950.
A loan-shark hunt introduces Marlowe to three men, each carrying a torch for a woman who has been dead two days.
Kidnapped and driven toward Mexico, Marlowe crosses paths with an escaped convict holed up in a deserted farmhouse.
An asylum escapee draws Marlowe down a murderous path that dead-ends in a storeroom.
A champion woman pistol shot, and a victim killed with one precise round, await Marlowe on this case.
Marlowe returns, distinctly unwelcome, to Bay City to clear a friend framed for murder.
Stranded by a blizzard, Marlowe shelters at an inn whose owners turn out to be kin to a man he had lately gunned down.
Ladies' night at a Turkish bath draws Marlowe into blackmail and a body in a bedroom.
A downtown traffic accident and a woman chemist's deathbed confession lead Marlowe to an industrial theft.
A murderous 'British butler' who is really a killer chimpanzee snarls a case of a phony English lord and a blonde corpse -- in the broadcast that saw Mohr named radio's best actor.
A silk dealer is found strangled, and Marlowe's suspicions settle on a hard-boiled woman in slacks.
Hours before his wedding, a groom hires Marlowe to trace his vanished bride, opening onto a nightclub killing, big money and a double-cross.
A missing sword turns up through a man's back, and an albino Siamese cat hints at the blade's true worth.
With police closing in on a young man trapped on a roof, Marlowe recounts in flashback the murder and robbery that put him there.
A valuable platinum watch becomes a deadly commission -- in the lone episode where William Conrad, not Gerald Mohr, plays Marlowe.
Murder at a boxer's training camp centers on a solid-gold eagle lying near the beaten body.
A ballerina begs Marlowe for help and dances straight into murder, with a high-collared cape and a sliver of glass among the clues.
A stolen $50,000 brooch and two murders send Marlowe hunting for guilt along the waterfront.
Chip O'Brien proves an elusive quarry, and Marlowe's search turns up $110,000 in stolen jewels and a racketeer called the 'Big Wheel.'
The chase for a priceless historic cloak in Honolulu produces two men each claiming to be Marlowe, one of them knifed to death in an ornamental pond.
A lawsuit over a stolen chemical formula turns deadly when a key witness against a gangster never lives to testify.
Laid up with a broken leg, Marlowe works a $50,000 swindle without ever leaving his hospital bed.
Slipped a mickey while hunting a second-story man, Marlowe chases a stolen jeweled tiara and a lasting double-cross.
Shadowing a man aboard a San Francisco-bound train, Marlowe acquires a corpse and is forced to leap from the moving car.
Hired to carry a golden cobra to Chicago, Marlowe finds a real snake -- and real danger -- packed into the job.
A woman who looks every inch a killer hires Marlowe, and an ice-pick corpse leads him to the truth.
Hired to see a man safely to his destination, Marlowe is left with a dead client and a lovesick Kansas girl muddying the case.
At a Spanish castle in northern California, Marlowe squares off against the legend of 'Peter the Cruel' and his eight-foot iron coffin.
A dying old man asks Marlowe to find his son, Jack Schiller -- a search that proves anything but simple.
A police sergeant's tip about a brunette named Helen Lawton -- an old flame of Marlowe's -- draws the detective into a fresh case.
A man stands trial for a father's murder he did not commit, and Marlowe unravels a web of blackmail to clear him.
As Vincent Calloway is tried for murdering his hated father, Marlowe pushes past the obvious to the real killer.
An alley beating, a lovely young woman and the scars of a terrible fire draw a tired Marlowe into a murky case.
The murdered coin collector who hired Marlowe leaves a single lead behind -- a rare 1864 Confederate half-dollar valued at $37,000.
A dead old man in a flophouse, a wood-carving drunk and a gold-digging woman lead Marlowe to a killer's one soft spot.
Five masks conceal greed, cowardice, cruelty and deceit -- but it is the fifth that finally unmasks a murderer.
A would-be hit-and-run, a warehouse giant and a treacherous blonde nearly finish Marlowe -- all for a client who cannot pay a cent.
A florist-shop killing, a self-deluding fortune-teller and a deadly scuffle beside a busy merry-go-round all hinge on one white carnation.
A skid-row 'suicide' proves to be murder, tied to a frightened cobbler, a hard-boiled agent's tears and a woman's secret leather-bound book.
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