

He cares about his clients and his greatest strength is his humanity. Even after years in the business, he’s not completely cynical. He’ll never be rich or have a fancy office he’s usually one step ahead of the bill collectors. Here’s a detective who is a real human being. He seldom uses his gun or gets into a fight, but he’s no wimp.

Harry is definitely not a hard-boiled P.I.

Harry manages not to do the deed and ends up staying on the West Coast, working as a private eye, first in Los Angeles, and later, in Seattle. The “little favor” involves the murder of a Los Angeles crime boss. to do a “little favor” for the holder of his markers, a Windy City casino owner/crime boss. After he runs up substantial gambling debts and is unable to pay them, Harry agrees to travel to L.A. He turns up precinct-wide police corruption and is eventually forced to resign from the Chicago police force. When his blues singer wife is killed in a night club shooting, Harry’s life hits the skids. As a rookie on the Chicago Police Department, Harry was recruited by the department’s Internal Affairs Division. Harry’s real last name is actually Niletti he changed it before he joined the force to protect his family from potential retaliation by the Mob. Like many private eyes, Harry started out as a cop. Harry Nile, a fictional private detective in Los Angeles and Seattle during the 1940s and 1950s, is the title character of this New-Time Radio detective series. Since Harper’s passing, the show has starred Larry Albert. As of this writing, over 190 installments have been done.įrom his 1976 debut until his death in October 2004 the part of Harry Nile was played by Phil Harper. In 1991 Jim began writing and producing new Nile shows with one new episode playing every month, first only locally and then in 1996 nationally. Through a bit of foresight in the 1970s, Jim retained the rights to all of his scripts and characters, and it wasn’t long before the original 24 episodes along with two that had been produced but never aired were running on Sunday nights. In 1990 he was asked if he knew who owned the rights to the Nile shows. In the late 1980s, Jim returned to broadcasting joining the staff of the local CBS affiliate KIRO.

The series made its original debut on Januover Seattle radio station KVI and continued for 24 episodes before French left the station to pursue other interests. It has been in continuous production since 1991 and is syndicated nationally as part of the Imagination Theater package. The Adventures of Harry Nile is a radio drama series created by veteran radio writer and producer Jim French. What is written on this site how ever is.
