The Dark Tunnel: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (August 18, 1950)

“The Dark Tunnel” is an episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 18, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective Philip Marlowe is approached by a young man named Ira Clausen, who has been beaten up in an alley by a man named Link Austin. Clausen asks Marlowe to find his missing girlfriend Julia Thayer, who disappeared a month ago after working at the Blossom Dance Land. When Marlowe learns that a prominent crime figure named Fay Patilio has been killed in a car crash under mysterious circumstances, he begins to uncover connections that lead him to investigate a warehouse in East Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, including a cheap hotel room, bars, dance halls, and an industrial warehouse in East LA

Characters: Philip Marlowe, Ira Clausen, Link Austin, Julia Thayer, Fay Patilio, Louie, Joe Stapp, Pork

Listen for: Marlowe's wise-cracking narration and dialogue as he pieces together clues about Julia's disappearance and its connection to the death of gangland figure Fay Patilio

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.