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Old time radio series Adventures of Sam Spade

Adventures of Sam Spade

FIRST BROADCAST: July 12th 1946

LAST BROADCAST: April 27th 1951

SPONSORS: Wildroot Cream Oil, Wildroot

CAST: Howard Duff, Steve Dunne, Lurene Tuttle, John McIntire, William Conrad, Cathy and Elliot Lewis, June Havoc, Joseph Kearns, Jerry Hausner, Elliott Reid, Mary Jane Croft, Jeanette Nolan, Betty Lou Gerson

ANNOUNCERS: Dick Joy

MUSIC: Lud Gluskin, Rene and Pierre Garriguenc

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: William Spier

WRITERS: Bob Tallman, Jo Eisinger, Gil Doud, John Michael Hayes, E Jack Neuman, Harold Swanton

SOUND EFFECTS: Berne Surrey

THEME: Goodnight, Sweetheart

Adventures of Sam Spade – 1946-1951

Sam Spade was a tough private investigator. Each case was unfolded as a report dictated to his secretary, Effie, who was always flustered and secretly in love with him. He always quoted his license number and referred to each investigation as a “caper”. Each report was dated with the actual airdate.


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