Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Join host Adam Graham as we journey through all the old time radio programs featuring Sam Spade. This is the most comprehensive Sam Spade old time radio podcast as we offer the following golden age treasures for your listening pleasure Adaptations of The Maltese Falcon movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. All circulating episodes starring Howard Duff as Sam Spade including rarer more recently unearthed episodes. Sam Spade comedy appearances including Howard Duff's guest appearances on the radio programs of Jack Carson, Burns and Allen, Joan Davis, and Bing Crosby. Also includes a bit of mystery audio where Howard Duff plays Sam Spade in a First Nighter spoof, and Sam Spade comedy riffs by Fred Allen and Abbott and Costello. All of the circulating episodes starring Sam Spade. A Sam Spade inspired comedy detective program called Sara's Private Caper. Your host, Adam serves as your guide to this treasure trove featuring "the greatest private detective of them all."

Episodes

October 18, 2025 36 mins
Original Release Date: August 14, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to find a sea captain, and then finds himself in the middle of desperate characters fighting over a string of pearls.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: Feburary 2, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad

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Original Release Date: August 7, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a man who received a threat after scheduling a ski weekend with a bunch of volatile guests.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Jay Novello

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October 4, 2025 37 mins
Original Release Date: July 31, 2023

Today's Mystery :A mysterious woman comes to Sam Spade's apartment dressed as a harem girl, tries to poison Spade, and accidentally kills herself.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1951

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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September 27, 2025 38 mins
Original Release Date: July 24, 2023

Today's Mystery:A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1951

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, William Conrad

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September 20, 2025 37 mins
Original Release Date: July 17, 2023

Today's Mystery:Spade is called in by the producer of a true crime radio program to find a witness who claims to know who committed an unsolved murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad

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September 13, 2025 37 mins
Original Release Date: July 3, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a 9 year-old who claims to have been robbed of a toy panda

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1950

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Wally Maher, Tommy Cook, Cathy Lewis, Sidney Miller, Tony Barret

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September 6, 2025 48 mins
Original Release Date: June 26, 2023

Today's Mystery: A friend of Sam's asks him to find out why a street musician was nearly brained to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 15, 1950

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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August 30, 2025 36 mins
Original Release Date: June 19, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is summoned to a ghost town by an elderly man, who believes Sam is a California Marshal, to help him fight an outlaw.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1950

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher as Buck, Alan Reed

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August 23, 2025 73 mins
Original Release Date: June 11, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious black-enameled bird.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1943

Originated in Hollywood

Starred: Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade, Gail Patrick as Bridget O'Shaughnessy, Laird Cregar as Casper Gutman, Charlie Lung as Joel Cairo, Bea Benderret as Effie, Eddie ...
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August 16, 2025 35 mins
Original Release Date: June 5, 2023

Today's Mystery: The owner of an investment firm hires Spade to shadow one of her clients whom she says may be involved in a racket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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August 9, 2025 37 mins
Original Release Date: May 29, 2023

Today's Mystery:A man named Tom Turkey shows up in Sam's office and says he's afraid someone's going to kill him.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 24, 1950

riginated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher

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August 2, 2025 47 mins
Original Release Date: May 22, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam explains to a confused Effie how he's still alive.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Stephen Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

Watch Howard Duff on the Ed Wynn Show from January 1950.

Watch Howard Duff in Season 2 of Celebrity Bowling from 1974 (Episode 18)

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Original Release Date: May 15, 2023

Today's Mystery: Sam stays the night at a farmhouse where a beautiful woman pleads for his help.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 3, 1950

Originated from HollywoodStarred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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Original Release Date: May 8, 2023

Today's Mystery:
Sam is hired by a woman to help her fiancé, who has been charged with armed robbery.Rehearsal of Program that Aired May 28, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as EffieS

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Original Release Date: May 1, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to serve as an alibi for a Mexican man but all bets are off when his daughter is shot right in front of him.

Rehearsal of Program that Original Aired on May 21, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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Original Release Date: April 24, 2013

Today's Mystery:A private eye from Chicago who lost his license pushes his way into Sam's office and talks him into taking a case...dressed as a giant rabbit.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 4, 1949

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Howard Duff as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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June 27, 2025 30 mins
Original Release Date: April 17, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a waiter who leaves a photo in a sandwich and tells him to find the woman in it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 6, 1949

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Original Release Date: April 10, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a tribal chief to locate an engineer who didn't show up for a meeting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 25, 1949

Originated from HollywoodStarred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie. Announcer: Dick Joy

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Original Release Date: April 3, 2023

Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to break up a romance between the daughter of a wealthy man and a disreputable night club owner.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 28, 1949

Originated From Hollywood

Starred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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June 7, 2025 34 mins
Original Release Date: March 27, 2013

Today's Mystery: The Rangers join a statewide manhunt for an escaped felon who killed a police officer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 25, 1952

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