INTRO: Bob-Mixed "Peaches & Herb Rerunited"
Joe Candono (Aired March 27, 1949)
Typically, a person unknown to Pat asks him to do an unusual or risky job. Pat reluctantly accepts and finds himself in hot water in the form of an unexplained dead body. Police Inspector Hellman (played by Raymond Burr) arrives on the scene and pins the murder on Novak. With only circumstantial evidence to go on, Hellman promises to haul Novak in the next day for the crime. The rapid, staccato dialogue between Webb & Burr is typical of harboiled fiction and is often humorous. Pat uses the time to try to solve the case. He usually employs the help of his friend Jocko Madigan (played by Tudor Owen) - a drunken ex-doctor typically found at some disreputable tavern or bar - to help him solve the case. As Pat asks for his help, Jocko launches a long-winded philosophical diatribe, full of witty and funny remarks, until Novak cuts him off. Jocko and Pat unravel the case and Hellman makes the arrest.
THIS EPISODE:
March 27, 1949. Program #1. "Joe Candono" - ABC network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. The story of a waterfront character out to make a buck anyway he can, which usually involves murder, beautiful girls and an inevitable hit on the head. Very well written adventures in a terse hard hitting style. Doreen Wilde offers Pat $100 to make a delivery. A corpse is found in Pat's hotel room and Pat's the patsy. Jack Webb, Raymond Burr, William P. Rousseau (producer), Tudor Owen, Basil Adlam (composer, conductor). 28:51. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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