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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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