Episodes

  • Sam Spade: The Bumpus Hell Caper

    Sam Spade: The Bumpus Hell Caper
    Mar 29 2025
    Original Release Date: January 23, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Sam's attempts to relax and read by a Western novel are interrupted by the drama surrounding a beautiful actress who is one of Sam's neighbors.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date:January 16, 1949

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    35 mins
  • Sam Spade: The Bouncing Betty Caper

    Sam Spade: The Bouncing Betty Caper
    Mar 21 2025
    Original Release Date: January 16, 2023

    Today's Mystery:
    Sam is hired to protect a wealthy young woman who claims her life is endangered by her mentally unstable brother and their scheming psychiatrist stepfather.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 12, 1948

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    32 mins
  • Sam Spade: The Quarter Eagle Caper

    Sam Spade: The Quarter Eagle Caper
    Mar 14 2025
    Original Release Date: January 9, 2023

    Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a gumball magnate to find out who has been breaking his machines, leaving the money, and stealing the gumballs.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 28, 1948

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    38 mins
  • Sam Spade: The SQP Caper

    Sam Spade: The SQP Caper
    Mar 8 2025
    Original Release Date: January 2, 2023

    Today's Mystery: Sam refers a divorce case to a hotel house detective, but Sam because involved when the supposed subject of the investigation ends up dead.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 7, 1948

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    30 mins
  • Sam Spade: The Fairly Bright Caper

    Sam Spade: The Fairly Bright Caper
    Mar 1 2025
    Original Release Date: December 19, 2022

    Today's Mystery:
    Sam is hired to attend and keep peace at a combined Halloween and celebrity engagement party.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 31, 1948


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    48 mins
  • Burns and Allen: Gracie Sends Sam Spade to Jail

    Burns and Allen: Gracie Sends Sam Spade to Jail
    Feb 22 2025
    Original Release Date: December 18, 2022

    Today's Show:

    George Burns and Sam Spade explain to a police lieutenant how Gracie got them thrown into jail for murder.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1949

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    34 mins
  • Sara's Private Caper: Sara's 'Sonnets of Fu Yen' Caper

    Sara's Private Caper: Sara's 'Sonnets of Fu Yen' Caper
    Feb 15 2025
    Today's Mystery:

    A police stenographer decides to investigate an incomplete report on a stolen rare book.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 15, 1950


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    37 mins
  • Sam Spade: The Insomnia Caper

    Sam Spade: The Insomnia Caper
    Feb 8 2025
    Original Release Date: December 12, 2022

    Today's Mystery:
    Sam goes to get a good night's sleep and instead gets dragged into a murder case by a neighbor.

    Original Radio Broadcast Date:October 24, 1948

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    33 mins