The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective | Old Time Radio

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective | Old Time Radio brings you classic hard-boiled mystery, crime, and detective drama from the golden age of radio. Follow private detective Sam Spade through murder cases, dangerous clients, deception, missing persons, and clever mysteries on the streets of San Francisco. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Based on the legendary detective created by Dashiell Hammett and famously starring Howard Duff as Sam Spade, the series became a classic of radio noir, known for sharp dialogue, humor, suspense, and memorable mysteries. Rediscover classic old time radio detective stories, Sam Spade, private-eye mysteries, crime drama, noir, suspense, and vintage radio.

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  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - "Dick Foley Caper" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

  Aug 22, 202630 min

  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Dick Foley Caper,” originally broadcast on September 26, 1948. Episode 118 of the CBS series stars Howard Duff as Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine and Frank Lovejoy as fellow detective Dick Foley. When Dick Foley asks his old friend Sam to find a recently released convict with a grudge, the search leads to San Francisco’s Belvedere hotel and a tense case tied to an old jewelry-robbery conviction. Written by Gil Doud and Bob Tallman, this hard-boiled installment brings the Dashiell Hammett character Dick Foley into Sam Spade’s radio world. The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 30:18 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

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  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - "Tears of Night Matter" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

  Aug 21, 202629 min

  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Tears of Night Matter,” originally broadcast July 24, 1949. This installment is identified in episode logs as episode 161, also known as “The Tears of Night Caper.” When Sam Spade is asked to return the costly Tears of Night necklace to its owner after a gambling dispute, a routine delivery turns into a suspicious case involving duplicate jewels and high-stakes deception. Howard Duff stars as Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine; the CBS series was sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil. The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:47 Original Broadcast 28:45 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

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  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - "Death Bed Caper" (Old Time Radio, 1948)

  Aug 20, 202630 min

  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Death Bed Caper,” originally broadcast on June 20, 1948. This CBS-era mystery stars Howard Duff as private detective Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as Effie Perrine. Spade is called to witness a dying statement from the injured Gordon Starbuck—but the declaration casts suspicion in an unexpected direction. The case leads from San Francisco Bay’s fogbound docks to a yacht-bound deathbed, where last words may not be as trustworthy as they seem. The episode was written by Bob Tallman and Gil Doud and is also known as “The Caper With Two Death Beds.” The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:49 Original Broadcast 30:17 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

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  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - "Denny Shane Caper" (Old Time Radio, 1951)

  Aug 19, 202631 min

  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Denny Shane Caper,” originally broadcast on NBC on April 6, 1951. This is C021, the 21st episode of the 1950–1951 NBC run, starring Steve Dunne as San Francisco private investigator Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Effie. A sixteen-year-old girl asks Spade to find Denny Shane, the criminal she calls her estranged brother. Her account does not quite add up, and Spade’s inquiries through Shane’s old San Francisco haunts lead him into an unusually somber case. Written by Harold Swanton and produced and directed by William Spear. The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned and mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:51 Original Broadcast 30:27 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

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  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective - "Cheesecake Caper" (Old Time Radio, 1949)

  Aug 18, 202626 min

  The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents “Cheesecake Caper,” originally broadcast November 6, 1949. Howard Duff stars as hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade in this NBC-era adventure based on the character created by Dashiell Hammett. A cryptic phone call sends Spade to a grill to order a sandwich—one containing a $50 bill, a photograph of a blonde, and a terse instruction: “Find the girl!” What begins as an oddly delivered assignment soon draws him into another mysterious case. The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:43 Original Broadcast 25:51 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

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