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Posted on 9/23/18 at 9:30 pm to Slayer76
quote:DL Philip Marlowe episodes here
Phillip Marlowe is good also
This series is probably the closest any medium ever came to the Marlowe of the novels. Even Raymond Chandler himself didn't completely hate it.
The highlights of the show -- in particular the early episodes -- are absolutely the opening and closing narrations. Some of them are classics. The great episode "Red Wind" opens with the famous description of L.A. nighttime taken directly from Chandlers story:
"There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening. It was one of those hot, dry Santa Anna winds that comes down out of the mountain passes... On nights like that, every booze party ends in a fight, and meek little housewives finger the edge of a carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can happen when the Santa Anna blows in from the desert."
The plots are generally not so hot -- they invariably hinge on Marlowe spotting something which the audience can't see (obviously) and only explaining how he figured it out in the tag. But with only 30 minutes of show they clearly had to decide between Agatha Christie plotting and Chandler ambience. Fortunately they chose the latter.
The show is definitely a buried noir treasure. Maybe someday it will be rediscovered.
Posted on 11/28/18 at 6:11 am to Slayer76
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Johnny dollar
"Your's truly..Johnny Dollar"! Love when he would do his expense wrap up at the end of every episode.
Also like The Shadow, Our Miss Brooks, and The Rancheros.
The SXFM Radio Classics channel is fantastic and worth my subscription alone.
Oh, as for current or at least contemporary (early 2000s) Try Underwood and Flinch. Its a podcast but done in Classic Radio show style.
This post was edited on 11/28/18 at 6:16 am
Posted on 5/11/19 at 7:33 pm to Slayer76
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Try Johnny dollar.
The man with the action-packed expense account.
It has surprisingly become one my favorite series on XM Radio Classics.
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