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Pat Novak, For Hire
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Pat Novak, for Hire was an old-time radio detective drama that aired regionally from San Francisco in 1946-47 and nationally on ABC in 1949. The series centered on a waterfront troubleshooter drawn into murder cases and hardboiled trouble.
Pat Novak, for Hire is an old-time radio detective drama series which aired from 1946 to 1947 as a West Coast regional program and in 1949 as a nationwide program for ABC.
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