The Great Detectives Present Sam Spade (Old Time Radio)

The Great Detectives Present Sam Spade (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

November 20, 2023 38 mins
Today's Mystery: Sam Spade's search for the murderer in his partner puts him in the midst of intrigue among four dangerous characters, all trying to gain possession of an enameled jeweled falcon.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1946

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Starring: Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade; Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy; Sidney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman; Gerald Mohr

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Today's Mystery:Sam receives a summons and a $100 retainer from a reclusive silent film star.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 30, 1948

Originated from HollywoodStarring: Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher

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November 6, 2023 37 mins
day's Mystery:A nervous man sets Spade on the case of a man who is about to be executed at San Quentin.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Steven Dunne as Sam Spade; Lurene Tuttle as Effie; Paul Frees; Olan Soule; Junius Matthews; Wally Maher; Sidney Miller; Cathy Lewis; Lou Merrill; Edwin Max

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October 30, 2023 34 mins
Today's Mystery:Sam goes to a rural county to investigate the theft of $53,000 from a bank where an ex-client works.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1951

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Peggy Webber, Verna Felton, Sidney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, Nestor Paiva,

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October 23, 2023 36 mins
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to investigate the collapse of a civic auditorium, for which his client is being blamed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 13, 1951

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

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October 16, 2023 36 mins
Today's Mystery:A sixteen-year-old girl hires Spade to find her brother, a notorious criminal.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 6, 1951

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Cathy Lewis, Lou Merrill, William Conrad, Paul Frees, Jerry Hausner,Kathleen Freeman, William Tracy

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October 9, 2023 38 mins
Today's Mystery:A wealthy man hires Sam to find out why an even more wealthy neighbor is trying to ruin him

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Tony Barrett

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October 2, 2023 37 mins
Today's Mystery:Steve is hired to protect a valuable necklace.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 23, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, Fritz Feld, Georgia Ellis, Sidney Miller, Olan Soule, Alice Wellman

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September 25, 2023 34 mins
Today's Mystery:A man hires Spade after receiving an ominous warning that his life is in peril from a dangerous red-headed woman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1951

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

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September 18, 2023 36 mins
Today's Mystery:Sam tries to help a retired teacher who lost $1,000 to an old con game.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1951

Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Ed Mack, Verna Felton, Lou Merrill, Tony Barrett, Shirley Mitchell, Nester Paiva, Jerry Hausner

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September 11, 2023 37 mins
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to look into the disappearance and likely death of a crab fisherman.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1951

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

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September 4, 2023 38 mins
Today's Mystery:A newspaper editor hires Spade to go undercover as a tenant at an apartment building where someone appears to have captured a shooting on their camera

.Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1951

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

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August 28, 2023 47 mins
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a soap opera queen to find her husband, and discover why he's so distraught over a telegram from Mexico City.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 16, 1951

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

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August 21, 2023 39 mins
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August 14, 2023 36 mins
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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August 7, 2023 36 mins
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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July 31, 2023 37 mins
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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July 24, 2023 38 mins
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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July 17, 2023 37 mins
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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July 3, 2023 37 mins
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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