Season 1 • Episode 26
LatestPhilip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond Chandler. The private detective Marlowe of Carey, departed very much from the original character. The show first aired October 6, 1959 with the episode: "The Ugly Duckling" with Virginia Gregg and Rhys Williams.
Production
Glossy ABC studio sets screaming late-50s television glamour.
Acting
Philip Carey's square-jawed charm vs. the literary Marlowe's exhaustion.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series arrived during a wave of watered-down TV noir adaptations, when sponsors demanded palatable heroes over Chandler's broken idealists.
Philip Carey later played a soap opera patriarch for decades—imagine Bogart's Marlowe becoming a daytime TV grandfather.
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