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
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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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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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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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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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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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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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by the operator of a gambling den to return a necklace to its owner, but Sam finds out she already has it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 24, 1949
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Today's Mystery:
A wealthy woman tries to get Sam to frame a private school teacher theft.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a woman who fears she'll be murdered by a romantic rival.Original Radio Broadcast
Date: June 19, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Jack Carson calls in Sam Spade for protection after receiving a threatening telegram.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 5, 1947
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Date:June 5, 1949
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Today's Mystery:
Sam is called out to Belvedere Island to protect an artist who fears for his life.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a psychologist to extract a confession from a young widow who's ex-mother-in-law suspects she murdered her son.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 17, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by an eccentric wealthy woman living in a large house who claims that she's receiving threatening letters, but she claims they disappeared.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Sam receives a love letter from a woman he doesn't know asking her to escape from her insane uncle.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 27, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Sam's attempts to relax and read by a Western novel are interrupted by the drama surrounding a beautiful actress who is one of Sam's neighbors.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:January 16, 1949
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Today's Mystery:
Sam is hired to protect a wealthy young woman who claims her life is endangered by her mentally unstable brother and their scheming psychiatrist stepfather.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 12, 1948
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a gumball magnate to find out who has been breaking his machines, leaving the money, and stealing the gumballs.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 28, 1948
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Today's Mystery: Sam refers a divorce case to a hotel house detective, but Sam because involved when the supposed subject of the investigation ends up dead.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 7, 1948
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Today's Mystery:
Sam is hired to attend and keep peace at a combined Halloween and celebrity engagement party.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 31, 1948
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