Man On The Roof (Aired April 4, 1950)
The first portrayal of Philip Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr. Powell played the lead. Two years later, Van Heflin starred as Marlowe in a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show on NBC. This series ran for 13 shows. On September 26, 1948, Gerald Mohr became the third radio Marlowe, this time on CBS. It remained a CBS show through its last show in 1951.
THIS EPISODE:
April 4, 1950. CBS network. "The Man On The Roof". Sustaining. A young man is trapped on a roof as the cops close in. Marlowe tells this story of murder and robbery in flashback before trying to talk him down. Gerald Mohr, Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Lillian Buyeff, Doris Singleton, Jack Kruschen, Lawrence Dobkin, Raymond Chandler (creator), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Robert Mitchell (writer), Gene Levitt (writer), Richard Aurandt (composer, conductor), Roy Rowan (announcer). 29:41.
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