In 1946, Life Magazine declared, "Dashiell Hammett's Fat Man is suave, witty, hardboiled and provides better than average radio entertainment." By 1948, The Fat Man was one of the top 10 shows on Friday nights, with more than six million listeners every week. And, starring as Brad Runyon, the "Fat Man" of the title, was J. Scott Smart, a 270 pound actor who sounded every pound the part.In 1954, a revival of the program made its way "down under," starring New Zealand actor Lloyd Berrell as ...

A duo of Dashiell Hammett detectives!J. Scott Smart stars as "The Fat Man," Brad Runyon, the stout-but-stalwart investigator who was first conceived as an arch villain in Hammett's classic novel The Maltese Falcon. Charismatic and captivating, Runyon has a way with the ladies, in spite of his 237 pounds.Nick Charles, "The Thin Man," was played on radio by William Powell, Les Damon and Les Tremayne. Cases seem to fall in to Nick's lap…often dropped there by his wife, Nora (played by Myrna L...