Philo Vance - Serial 1, Episode 1 - 20

Title: Philo Vance

Overview: Three radio drama series were created with Philo Vance as the title character. The first series, broadcast by NBC in 1945, starred José Ferrer. A summer replacement series in 1946 starred John Emery as Vance. The best-known series (and the one of which most episodes survived) ran from 1948 to 1950 in Frederick Ziv syndication and starred Jackson Beck. "Thankfully, the radio series uses only the name, and makes Philo a pretty normal, though very intelligent and extremely courteous gumshoe. ... Joan Alexander is Ellen Deering, Vance's secretary, and right-hand woman.” Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. "S. S. Van Dine" was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright, a prominent art critic who initially sought to conceal his authorship of the novels. Van Dine was also a fictional character in the books, a sort of Dr. Watson figure who accompanied Vance and chronicled his exploits. Vance's character as portrayed in the novels might seem to many modern readers to be supercilious, obnoxiously affected, and highly irritating. He struck some contemporaries that way, as well. At the height of Philo Vance's popularity, comic poet Ogden Nash wrote: "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pance." Famed hardboiled-detective author Raymond Chandler referred to Vance in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" as "the most asinine character in detective fiction." In Chandler's novel The Lady in the Lake, Marlowe briefly uses Philo Vance as an ironic alias. A criticism of Vance's "phony English accent" also appears in Chandler's Farewell My Lovely. In Chandler's The Big Sleep, Marlowe says he's "not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance" and explains that his method owes more to the judgment of character than finding clues the police have missed.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1943 - July 4, 1950

Series: Philo Vance Radio Series (1943 - 1950)

Stars: José Ferrer, John Emery, Jackson Beck

Actors: Joan Alexander, George Petrie, Personne Inconnue

Writer: S. S. Van Dine, Personne Inconnue

Genre: Detective Drama

Episode: Philo Vance - Serial 1, Episode 1 - 20

Serial: 1 of 5

Length Serial: 8:54:19

Episodes: 1 - 20 of 97

Length Series: 42:13:50

Announcer: Tom Shirley

Creator: S. S. Van Dine

Director: Frederick W. Ziv Company

Producer: Frederick W. Ziv Company

Origin: United States

Language: English

Rated: Guidance Suggested

Edition: Complete, Unexpurgated, Classic, Broadcast

Running Time: 30 Minute

Audio: Monaural

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