The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's title character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.

[2] 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.

The series chronicles the cases of private detective Philip Marlowe.

Set in Los Angeles during the 1930s, storylines were adapted from Chandler's short stories.

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye aired in two short runs beginning in April 1983 to June 1983 in the US and May 1984 in the UK.