{"id":12085,"date":"2013-03-04T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=12085"},"modified":"2019-11-30T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:55:13","slug":"jocko-madigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/04\/jocko-madigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jocko Madigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a post recently<\/a> about another cursed sketchbook that I bought back in the ’80s. I called this particular book The Son of Sketchbook from Hell<\/em>.<\/a> It was a hardbound, squarish book that resisted all efforts of committing something resembling art on it’s pages. I must have thrown it in the back of a closet years ago and forgot all about it. I discovered it recently and decided to try to redeem it’s last few pages with something halfway decent. It continued resisting me until I took it to the YMCA where my son swims and scribbled this down.\"Jocko-Madigan\"<\/a>\"webb-smokes\"<\/a>I’ve been listening to Pat Novak for Hire<\/strong>, an old time radio program starring Jack Webb<\/strong><\/a> before he made it big in Dragnet<\/strong><\/em>. Webb plays Novak the world weary narrator\/troubleshooter\/protagonist who gets into all sorts of scrapes in the hellhole that was San Francisco in the 1940s. He delivers his lines in a delirious, tough guy patter that’s every dime store detective novel boiled down and concentrated. It’s like James Ellroy<\/a> if he lost his mind, and I can’t resist it. I’m not sure how much Webb was involved creatively with this program, but I suspect it was probably a low budget show, and everybody had to pitch in. My guess is Webb was responsible for at least some of that rat-a-tat<\/em> dialog making him a genius! I LOVE this stuff!<\/p>\n

One of Pat Novak’s friends, partner in fighting crime and Baker Street Irregular<\/em> of sorts is hopeless alcoholic Jocko Madigan<\/strong>. Novak describes him as such:<\/p>\n

He’s a good guy who never learned that if you keep your foot on a bar rail for twenty years, it will do more good for your arches than it will do for your brain!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jocko is the comic relief of the program and is used in every program for what he hears in San Francisco’s dive bars or what’s left of his booze-soaked but still brilliant mind. He usually supplies the crucial puzzle piece or piece of information that pulls Novak out of a jam or keeps him out of the slammer.<\/p>\n

Jocko Madigan<\/strong> was played by Welsh born character actor Tudor Owen<\/strong><\/a>. I looked him up and was struck by the photos of him. He looked like one of the more colorful members of the coven from Rosemary’s Baby. <\/em><\/strong>He stuck in my mind and rolled off of my pencil. It’s not really a caricature, but sort of an impression of how I remembered the sinister eyebrows and devilish grin.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in listening to Pat Novak for Hire<\/strong>, you can stream it or download the programs at The Internet Archive<\/strong><\/a>. They are free<\/em> and an absolute hoot!<\/p>\n

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I wrote a post recently about another cursed sketchbook that I bought back in the ’80s. I called this particular book The Son of Sketchbook from Hell. It was a hardbound, squarish book that resisted all efforts of committing something … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[1365,17,8,580,5,2375,987,2376,3663,25,2374,3660],"class_list":["post-12085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-1940s","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-jack-webb","tag-joe-williams","tag-old-time-radio","tag-pat-novak-for-hire","tag-program","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook","tag-tudor-owen","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-38V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39410,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/11\/03\/could-this-sketchbook-be-the-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":12085,"position":0},"title":"Could This Sketchbook Be The One?","author":"Joe","date":"November 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Tina snagged me this cheap sketchbook meant for kiddies along with another one that had a disgustingly whimsical Christmas llama on the cover five years ago in what was hoped to be a replacement for the mysterious, blank-covered Sketchbook from Heaven. 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