Pat Novak Meets Johnny Dollar: The Full Episode - An Old Time Radio Detective Crossover

[@loritracy1385]

😁 What a wonderful surprise! Thank you. It had the old time radio characters I love with a feel of Garland & Rooney's "Let's put on a show". Well done.

[@nicholasandrew2395]

Great job! Can't wait to hear more!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you so much!

[@stephaniehenman5281]

I love finding new programs yay have a blessed day😅

[@wjhslib]

Honestly, my two favorite shows to listen to!

[@Tintintanabulation]

Oh! Niw i know where "Cowboy Bebop" got their iconic voice inspiration 😊

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Whoever made this,priceless, jack webb,Bob Bailey ,outstandingly, make more please outstandingly done

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you @kelvintorrence5994 We are looking to do more. If you have any "what if" episodes you'd like to see, let us know.

[@brucemarshall3446]

How about THE LINEUP and DRAGNET combo?😊

[@sbarr6677]

This was fantastic!! Love the ending when Richard diamond dropped in!! Great job!!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thanks so much!!

[@liz80218]

Pat Novak AND Johnny Dollar?? Sign me up! The voices sound so much like Jack Webb and Bob Bailey. Love the one-liners too.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you. A new preview of Johnny Dollar Meets Richard Diamond is coming soon.

[@rubberdub5269]

Fantastic.. hope we get more of this 👍

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you @rubberdub5269 Hoping we can do more too.

[@ejc1956]

Best re-creation I have ever heard

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you! There was a lot of hard work put into this. Thank you for appreciating that.

[@LMHPhilly]

Nice work.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thanks!

[@rutimizrachi]

Oh, how much pleasure this gives me! Not only was the nostalgia hit marvelous, but I really liked that the actors imitated the voices of the original actors. And when I anticipated and wondered if certain situations and special characters would be incorporated, you didn't let me down. Thanks for a half-hour of smiles and laughter. I wish you so much success with NewTimeRadio, and hope it will continue and grow and be marvelously successful. Thank you! Now scooting over to the website to see what else is up... 😊

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you. We're glad this brought you some happiness. Your kind words definitely brought us a lot of joy.

[@rutimizrachi]

@@hamiltoncrouse1194 💖

[@doreekaplan2589]

Jack Webb did Pat Novak series, too. Then Dragnet radio before taking it up a notch by running same tv series himself. Thanksalot 😊

[@Gretschbeach]

That was a hoot!! Granted no one could ever convincingly mimic Pat Novak’s dialogue or the incomparable dynamic with Hellman and Novak. But I don’t think this was supposed to be a “lost episode”. Richard Diamond’s appearance was brilliant!! It was like hearing old friends goofing off together. It was like hearing Sam Spade, Phillip Marlow, Michael Shayne razzing Mr Malone for being “amazing”.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Yes. You're exactly right. We knew we could never create something better than the originals, so we decided to do something that was unique and take a different approach with the mashups and special cameos. Thank you for your feedback.

[@lexicon1913]

OMG if they could pull off Sam meets Dan Holiday?

[@aiaziz41]

This is really cool!! I'm a day 1 subscriber. Please keep them coming. Are you gonna make a Diamond and Dollar episode? I hope so. I'll be looking out for it. Take it easy folks.

[@xanther97]

Used to listen to a lot of Johnny Dollar episodes in the library--over the internet circa Y2K and beyond. Also Groucho Marx radio version of You Bet Your Life.

[@lawrencemoore3863]

Don't tell me it's two detectives working together,I like that

[@dfreedom4188]

This is my MCU 😭

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you. We're hoping there's enough interest for us to keep expanding the universe.

[@loritracy1385]

Hope that's not just a tease. Will be waiting for Diamond & Dollar! 😊

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you Lori! That's one option we are considering. And at the end of Diamond & Dollar, it might be Diamond & someone else, and it will just keep continuing on.

[@mikehobart]

this is delightful

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you Mike. If you have a suggestion of what you'd like to hear next, let us know.

[@PaddyBL]

Brilliant!!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you @PattyBLeague you're the best!

[@davidstuckey9289]

This rather impressed me. Pat Novaks dialogue felt very accurate ( Though a couple of lines are taken from Phil Marlowe ), and the Johnny Dollar voice and cadence are close to a perfect recreation of Bob Bailey. Better still, the story works too. It's not perfect, yet it shows a hell of a lot of potential.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you. We are excited to see where this takes us next.

[@davidsigalow7349]

This was great!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you. We appreciate the support.

[@brucemarshall3446]

Im not a fan of private eye radio dramas - with the exception of 'Patsy' and Johnny. The former because it spoofs the genre; the latter because of the serial format. So, good choices! Fun show!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thanks, they are our favorites too! What do you think about Richard Diamond?

[@brucemarshall3446]

@@hamiltoncrouse1194 He is pretty much like all the others , wisecracking and lecherous😄 .But , I am a fan of Dick Powell. I am more into the police shows that are more down to earth and less cliched. I could go for Nero Wolfe meets Johnny Dollar!😊

[@BennysBenz]

Great job! 🎉

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thank you! 😁

[@robertsheetz6067]

I was thinking about Dollar meets Diamond, and then the ending of this show was Diamond meets Dollar.... Awesome

[@kjanttigvu6887]

Brilliant! Keep 'em coming!

[@PrinceoftheAbyss]

As a fan of both crossovers and OTR shows, I must say that this little show might be the start of a brand new fad. All you need is the programming, a collection of OTR shows on file, and a lot of patience. Not to mention the legal grey-area that it falls under, what with all the actors been dead for decades. BTW, don't think I didn't catch Jack Benny's cameo.

[@PeterWhite-q1k]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Glad you liked it!

[@eddiefingers88]

This sounds like A.I. to me ! Especially Webb’s voice .

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Partly, yes. Please check out the making off video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGbMi2aMgJqef9Usi=EONGsNe0mwsSBj6y

[@SVT1969]

Original radio actors were so good that the modern era has never been able to re-create the magic. But this is close and interesting.

[@brucemarshall3446]

Most were good. But...have you ever heard Elliot Lewis?😅😜

[@osnapproductions1962]

Please do a tutorial of how you did this!!

[@senior_ranger]

Jack Johnstone spins in his grave. (And yes, I know his ashes went into the Santa Barbara Channel.)

[@LoriVanAuwelaer]

Hey y'all 😮

[@GLK-London]

👍👌👌

[@aiaziz41]

1 bit of advice. Bob Bailey spoke faster in his dialog. That's the only very very minor flaw I notice.

[@keithhill3034]

I found the pacing at 1.25x sounded better than normal speed.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

Thanks. We're planning another. We'll keep that in mind

[@aiaziz41]

I'm looking forward to it.

[@ecouturehandmades5166]

This was great, but April Fools?

[@goboy45]

Is this Artificial Intelligence at work?

[@michaellumovich8325]

A Stradivarius crafted on a 3d printer, Ugh.

[@idaniaesparza3881]

Wow. This show is really special and odd. I couldn't place the voices of main characters. The reading seemed a little amateurish. I guess maybe if I were to listen to more series of this I might think they're good. Sorry. I like Johnny Dollar too much for this😢

[@ejc1956]

I’ve heard far worse, this actually is good

[@Brad4Ellis]

It’s a great idea, but the way the technology is working at this point, both of them are suddenly terrible actors who just read dryly. I started listening to this, assuming that it was an old-time episode I never heard, and I like the idea, and the blending of the music, but as soon as they started to have a conversation with each other, they both sounded like two people who weren’t in the room with another human being, just reading words off a page. That’s when I read the description, and realize that artificial intelligence is involved. my wife and I are big JOHNNY DOLLAR fans, and we were really surprised to hear him acting so poorly. Does the AI just receive the text, or is this blended with a person reading the lines? If that’s the case, then the next step would be to hire a competent actor or two to give the lines, genuine expression, and the sense that they are each actually talking to another human being, with expression and intention. Just a suggestion.

[@hamiltoncrouse1194]

You can take a look at the making of here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGbMi2aMgJqef9Usi=NjQkVCGSbBG-ctas

[@Brad4Ellis]

@@hamiltoncrouse1194 - Thank you 🙏🏼

[@lexicon1913]

You've received some really good feedback, but I'd like to add: keep working on the writing. Everything stilted stems from the script. I'm relieved that the AI is not seamless, since art does need the human experience. This as a hobby is a pleasant effort, though, thank you.

[@JohnSample-h6n]

Worst radio actors and actresses I’ve ever heard. Very robotic.

[@BlueWingedRino]

Robots tend to sound robotic.

[@SetemkiaFawn]

It wasn't clear at the outset that this was a recreation but it very clearly could not have been for real once I got into it. All three voices actually Hellman, too, were off. They sort of sounded like the original actors but not quite. Then there was the problem that each voice was set against a different audio background. It was as if they were phoning in from multiple studios. And so on. Before long I was wondering if this was both written and performed by an AI. If so this was a cheap trick. You should admit such things. The story was kind of lame but it did follow the kind of plotting that was done back then. But all the acting was kind of flat, non-professional.