Philip Maloney

The hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney
Radio play from Switzerland
original language	German
Year of production	since 1989
genre	Crime / parody
consequences	404 + special consequences
production	Radio SRF 3
Contributors
author	Roger Graf
speaker
Michael Schacht as Philip Maloney Jodoc Seidel as a policeman (until episode 384) Peter Schneider - voiceover In other roles: Ueli Beck Monica Amrein Carol Blanc Daniel Boemle Oliver Bono Alice Brüngger Heinz Margot Peter Fischli Marco Biondi Isabel Schaerer Monika Schärer Barbara Terpoorten Andrey Togni

The hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney is a radio play series by Roger Graf on the Swiss radio station Radio SRF 3 (formerly DRS 3 ).

history

The radio play series began in 1989 when Roger Graf was commissioned to write 3 sketches for the DRS Sunday morning program . He created multi-part radio plays that parodied several genres . One of them was based on the genre of the classic detective novel , and Philip Maloney was created as a parody of Philip Marlowe . The first episode, entitled The Little Sister , aired on January 8, 1989. Maloney soon became a crowd favorite and cult figure.

404 regular episodes appeared by October 2019. There are also some special episodes that were produced on certain occasions. Roger Graf wrote several novels with Maloney as the main character.

The series is also broadcast on the German-Belgian broadcaster Radio 700 . Until the station was discontinued, Philip Maloney could also be heard on SDR 3 .

action

Philip Maloney (voiced by Michael Schacht ) is a private detective who is constantly troubled by money , is fond of whiskey and often sleeps under his desk. His cases follow the same pattern. They are brought to him by his clients and start out harmless, but Maloney mostly comes across a corpse in the course of the investigation. Reluctantly, he has to cooperate with the police. The officer responsible (nameless in the radio plays, spoken by Jodoc Seidel , in the older novels his name is Hugentobler) is not the brightest and prefers to solve crossword puzzles than criminal cases . In the end, Maloney always clears the case. After episode 384 A Strange Blackmail , Seidel no longer appeared as the spokesman for the "responsible officer-police officer", which also meant that the character disappeared from the stories. Since then, Maloney has met different police officers.

Radio plays

Some of Philip Maloney's radio plays have been released on CDs. 23 CD boxes with five CDs each were released (as of November 2019) as well as three other special CDs and one DVD outside of the series.

Audio samples, special episodes (not published) and live recordings

Audiobooks with other speakers

In Germany, several Philip Maloney criminal cases were published on CD by tandem Verlag. These are readings from Roger Graf's books. The German actors Armin Rohde , Hannes Jaenicke , Tim Bergmann and Philipp Schepmann were used as speakers .

Books

Nine books were published in several editions with the short stories of the private detective, many of which were also broadcast as radio plays. There are also two crime novels starring Philip Maloney, in which he investigates together with his fellow detective Jasmin Weber.

Quotes

The following sayings recur over the course of the series, sometimes in every episode.

Philip Maloney

• "It hurt like hell."
• «Thunderstorm!»
• "I did what I always do in such situations."
• "That's how it goes!" (almost always at the end of an episode)

police officer

• "Well, Maloney ?!"
• "Bad thing, Maloney."
• "I read a book."
• "The world is out of joint, Maloney."
• "Did you run into another corpse?"
• "You are under arrest, on the spot!"
• "You don't understand anything about that, Maloney."
• «I summarize» with the following confusion of facts

Crossover

In June 1994 Michael Schacht appeared as Philip Maloney in the stylistically similar but very short-lived radio play series "Kowalski comes". The three-episode series was produced by the then Süddeutscher Rundfunk and is about the Stuttgart private detective Pia Kowalski, spoken by Anke Hartwig. Dietz-Werner Steck, actor of the former crime scene commissioner Bienzle, took over the role of commissioner Holtmann.

• Episode 1: Divorce in Swabian
• Episode 2: The noodle manager
• Episode 3: Desperately wanted for Sandra

The authors of the three cases are Ekkehard Skoruppa, the audio play dramaturge and current head of the SWR2 department "Artistic Word", and the former SDR / SWR editor Hartmut Volz.

In the four-part serial "Kowalski and Co." Kowalski investigates without Maloney's assistance.

Web links

• The Philip Maloney page of Radio SRF 3
• Website of Roger Graf
• Entries for the series The hair-raising cases of Philip Maloney in the audio game database of the website HspDat.to

Remarks

1. ↑ On SRF this episode is written in Waidmannsheil , see web link to Radio SRF 3.
2. ↑ Entry in the ARD database. In: hoerspiel.dra.de.
3. ↑ Entry in the ARD database. In: hoerspiel.dra.de.
4. ↑ Entry in the ARD database. In: hoerspiel.dra.de.