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Sam Spade Podcasts
Sam Spade Podcasts
52 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Sam Spade. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Sam Spade, often where they are interviewed.
52 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Sam Spade. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Sam Spade, often where they are interviewed.
Updated daily with the latest episodes
10-14-20 OTR Mysteries - Sam Spade - Rushlight Diamond Caper
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - OTR Mysteries
The Adventures of Sam Spade - "The Rushlight Diamond Caper"
Sam is hired to guard the gifts at a posh society wedding. The person who hired him is Mrs. Rushlight, aunt of the groom.
Mrs. Rushlight's late husband had gifted his wife with a very expensive and rare diamond. However, in an agreement she signed, the diamond was to go to the wife of his male heir.
When a murder takes place, Sam has to unravel all the threads to discover how the Rushlight Diamond fits it.
Featuring: Howard Duff
Original Air Date: July 4, 1948 on CBS
Sam Spade – Adam Figg Caper. 471005
Sam Spade - The Simile Caper
Sam is cracking down on similes. Starring Ivan Cury.
08-26-20 OTR Mysteries - Sam Spade - The Death Bed Caper
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The Adventures of Sam Spade - "The Death Bed Caper"
Gordon.
Two nights previously the brothers, who had hated each other for years, had been drinking and gotten into a fight. Dan blacked out and when he came to past midnight he was covered in blood. He then found his brother in the cabin of the boat -- apparently his had been head kicked in.
It was Dan's hope that Sam would witness his brother's statement clearing him before he died.
Featuring: Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle
Original Air Date: June 20, 1948 on CBS.
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BW - EP105: Sam Spade Comes to Radio (1946 - 1951)
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Highlights:
• Bill Spier’s Musical Beginnings Lead to Suspense
• Howard Duff: Unknown Actor
• How About Now For Sam Spade?
• CBS and ABC compete for Spade
• Spade Versus Bergen & McCarthy
• 1947-48: Radio’s Highest-Rated Season
• Spade Hits Its Stride
• Stop The Music
• June Havoc, Uncredited Spade Actress
• Unamerican Hammett? Unamerican Duff?
• Spade Gets Cancelled—Twice
• Howard Duff: Radio Preservationist
• What’s Next
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The reading material used in today’s episode was:
On the Air — By John Dunning
Network Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim Ramsburg
As well as articles from the archives of Billboard Magazine, Broadcasting Magazine, Radio Daily, and Variety.
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On the interview front:
• Eve Arden, Howard Duff, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingofRadio.com.
• Dick Joy, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.
• Howard Duff, June Havoc, and Bill Spier were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear their full chats at https://goldenage-wtic.org/
• Lurene Tuttle remembered radio with Same Time, Same Station on February 6th, 1972.
• Frank Stanton spoke with CBS in honor of their 50th anniversary in 1977.
• Mary Jane Croft was with SPERDVAC on March 14th, 1992. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com.
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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:
• Fever — By Peggy Lee
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes — By The Mallett Men
• Young At Heart — By Frank Sinatra
• The Prologue and Main Title piece from High Spirits — By George Fenton
• Atomic Cocktail — By Slim Gaillard
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A special thank you to Ted Davenport and Jerry Haendiges: two radio show collectors who helped supply material for this episode. They’re who the large retailers go to.
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For Jerry, please visit http://otrsite.com/
I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC - http://sperdvac.com/
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A Special Thank you to:
Tony Adams
Briana Isaac
Ryan Kramer
Barry Nadler
Christian Neuhaus
Aimee Pavy
Terry Wallace
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Social Media - @TheWallBreakers
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WGN Radio Theatre #471: The Adventures of Sam Spade, My Friend Irma, Crime Classics, Broadway Is My Beat, The Great Gildersleeve, The Cisco Kid, Gunsmoke & Vic and Sade (PART 2)
Carl Amari and Lisa Wolf are bringing you 5 of the best hours from the Golden Age of Radio on the WGN Radio Theatre for May 30th, 2020.
First up we have “The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Missing Newshawk Caper” starring: Howard Duff; (07-18-48). Next up is a classic episode from “My Friend Irma” titled “Billy Boy the Boxer” starring Marie Wilson; (02-09-48). Our third episode is “Crime Classics: The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Sr” starring: Lou Merrill; (07-06-53). “Broadway Is My Beat: The Ruth Shay Case” starring: Larry Thor (05-30-53). Following Broadway is my Beat is “The Great Gildersleeve: The Duel” starring: Hal Peary; (03-17-48). Next we have “The Cisco Kid: Morbid Jones and the Web of Death” starring: Jack Mather; (09-26-57). In hour 5 we have “Gunsmoke: Who Lives By the Sword” starring: William Conrad; (02-26-56). Lastly, a classic episode from “Vic and Sade: Vic Sleeping on the Couch” starring Art Van Harvey and Bernardine Flynn; (01-24-44).
PART 1:
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/3762330/3762330_2020-06-01-165630.64kmono.mp3WGN Radio Theatre #471: The Adventures of Sam Spade, My Friend Irma, Crime Classics, Broadway Is My Beat, The Great Gildersleeve, The Cisco Kid, Gunsmoke & Vic and Sade (PART 1)
Carl Amari and Lisa Wolf are bringing you 5 of the best hours from the Golden Age of Radio on the WGN Radio Theatre for May 30th, 2020.
First up we have “The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Missing Newshawk Caper” starring: Howard Duff; (07-18-48). Next up is a classic episode from “My Friend Irma” titled “Billy Boy the Boxer” starring Marie Wilson; (02-09-48). Our third episode is “Crime Classics: The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Sr” starring: Lou Merrill; (07-06-53). “Broadway Is My Beat: The Ruth Shay Case” starring: Larry Thor (05-30-53). Following Broadway is my Beat is “The Great Gildersleeve: The Duel” starring: Hal Peary; (03-17-48). Next we have “The Cisco Kid: Morbid Jones and the Web of Death” starring: Jack Mather; (09-26-57). In hour 5 we have “Gunsmoke: Who Lives By the Sword” starring: William Conrad; (02-26-56). Lastly, a classic episode from “Vic and Sade: Vic Sleeping on the Couch” starring Art Van Harvey and Bernardine Flynn; (01-24-44).
PART 1:
https://serve.castfire.com/audio/3762328/3762328_2020-06-01-160928.64kmono.mp3
Episode 386 – Capering Through Crime (Adventures of Sam Spade)
Sam Spade made a dynamic debut in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon before lighting up the big screen in John Huston's classic noir drama. In 1946, Spade came to radio in a weekly series of adventures that became a critical and listener favorite. We'll hear Howard Duff in "The Bail Bond Caper" (originally aired on CBS on June 27, 1948) and "The S.Q.P. Caper" (AFRS rebroadcast, originally aired on CBS on November, 1948). Then, Steve Dunne is Spade in "The Sure Thing Caper" (originally aired on NBC on February 9, 1951).
