Waterfront Webb (Pat Novak for Hire)
4/5/20262 hr 8 min
We kick off a new month-long series saluting the great Jack Webb in honor of his April 2nd birthday, and we're starting with Pat Novak for Hire - his ultra-hard boiled series that put him on the map. Novak never looked for trouble but always found it on the San Francisco waterfront, and we'll hear him try to keep his head above water in four radio mysteries: "Jack of Clubs" (originally aired on ABC on February 20, 1949); "Fleet Lady" (originally aired on ABC on March 6, 1949); "John St. John" (originally aired on ABC on May 21, 1949); and "Agnes Bolton" (originally aired on...
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First 90 secondsVincent Price· Soundbite0:00
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave.
George Fenneman· Soundbite0:06
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Speaker 30:21
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Speaker 40:24
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Speaker 6· Host0:35
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. This month we're celebrating the birthday of one of the patron saints of old-time radio mystery and crime drama, producer, director, and actor Jack Webb. Born April 2nd, 1920, Webb is best known today for Dragnet, but that landmark police procedural was just one of many radio mysteries he headlined in the '40s and '50s. Each Sunday in April, we'll shine a