Philip Marlowe, Private Eye(TV show/series, 1983-1986)

Name: Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Genre: Mystery, Action & Adventure
Released: 1983
Rating: 3.3

1h per episode | Genres: Mystery, Action & Adventure

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 11 episodes

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is an American mystery series that aired on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983, through June 3, 1986, and on ITV in the United Kingdom. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's title character, and was the first drama produced for HBO. Unlike other modern incarnations of the Marlowe character, the HBO series kept the show set in the 1930s, true to the original Raymond Chandler stories. ()

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About Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.

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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye Seasons and Episodes

04/27/1986Season 2 - 6 episodes

#1 | 04/27/1986Blackmailers Don't Shoot

Marlowe is hired by a mobster to protect his actress girlfriend, who is inadvertently kidnapped.

#2 | 05/04/1986Spanish Blood

Marlowe's best friend, lawyer Spanish Delaguerra (Leon Elkaim), is running for District Attorney. When Spanish is killed, and the body of the current DA is later discovered at Spanish's hideaway cabin, Marlowe finds himself embroiled with corrupt politicians, cops on the take and with belle (Helen Shaver), the beautiful grieving widow.

#3 | 05/11/1986Pickup on Noon Street

Token Ware (Robin Givens), is a pretty but naive cigarette girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom. Trimmer Waltz (Al Waxman) offers to help her meet all the right people, but what he really has in mind is to do a favor for Rupert Eaton, a charming, over-the-hill movie idol with an eye for young girls. While investigating the gruesome murder of another young Hollywood hopeful, Marlowe uncovers Trimmer's vice ring and the plans he has for Token.

#4 | 05/18/1986Guns at Cyrano's

Mobster and promoter Benny Cyrano has a sweet deal with the new boxing commissioner, Senator Courtway (John Ireland), and high hopes for his fair-haired boxer of the moment, Duke Targo. When Cyrano hires Philip Marlowe to find out who is threatening Duke, Marlow discovers that Duke's girlfriend Jean (Roxanne Hunt) is squeezing the Senator for money by passing herself off as his illegitimate daughter, and is getting in the way of Cyrano's plans.

#5 | 05/25/1986Trouble Is My Business

Marlowe (Powers Boothe) is hired by a dying millionaire to clean up his spendthrift son's gambling debts by digging up dirt on the pretty shill helping him drink his way through the family fortune. But Harriet Huntress is brighter than your average gold digger, and when Marlowe's information merchant turns up a few choice facts about her past, she begins glittering in a whole new light--and skeletons begin turning up in the most unexpected closets.

#6 | 06/03/1986Red Wind

Anything can happen when the Santa Ana wind blows through town, as a late night murder in a bar sets Marlowe off on a new case. There's a woman with a secret, a missing pearl necklace, an affair that could destroy a career, and another corpse before it all wraps up and the red wind dies down.

04/16/1983Season 1 - 5 episodes

Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Los Angeles (California)

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 5 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Russian (RU)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 04/16/1983

Last episode released on: 06/03/1986

Cast: Powers Boothe, Kathryn Leigh Scott

Directors: Bryan Forbes, Sidney Hayers, Peter R. Hunt, Robert Iscove, Allan King

Keywords: philip marlowe

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