Ep.329 The Adventures Of Sam Spade: The Rowdy Dowser Caper

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a suspense/detective radio show starring Howard Duff in the colorful title role along with Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie. It was based on the private detective character created by Dashiell Hammett, well-known from the book and movie The Maltese Falcon. The show ran from 1946 to 1951. Duff was replaced by Steve Dunne in later episodes. The Rowdy Dowser Caper: Spade travels to North Tacaloma to find $53,000 that has disappeared. Origina...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgia Mystery Radio.
0:21.7	I'm your host, Stevie K.
0:23.5	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester.
0:26.9	For this episode, I bring you, The Adventures of Sam Spade, episode titled The Rowdy Dowser Caper, originally aired April 20th, 1951, where Spade travels to North Taculoma to find $53,000
0:43.0	that has disappeared. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:51.5	Thank you for listening. Sam's Bay Detective Agency.
1:17.3	Hello, hello, hello.
1:20.1	Sam?
1:20.8	At this hour, on this network, you were expecting maybe Mary, Margaret, McBride?
1:25.4	I've been expecting anything, Sam.
1:27.3	After all, to have you drop out of sight like that, leaving not a ripple on the surface for four whole days. Mr. Livingstone is frantic. Who? Mr. Livingstone, the man you rented the car from, he's ready to send out a search party. Aha! Sammy and Livingstone, with a reverse twist.
1:45.0	It's no joke, Sam.
1:46.2	Nothing, huh?
1:47.4	You have no right to worry me like this.
1:50.1	It's not fair.
1:52.3	Where are you?
1:53.5	To the only spot on earth as yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society, sweetheart,
1:59.3	the veil of Tocoloma. And don't try to find it on a map because it isn't. Set yourself for my saga of a crooks tour of the hinterlands with just a touch of mysticism, which is why I call it the rowdy dowser caper. All right, Murgatroyd, these will do. Sam, where are you calling from?
2:18.3	A tailor's shop. I had to leave without my pants.
2:26.2	For NBC, William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer-director of mystery and crime drama,
2:31.8	brings you the greatest private detective of them all, starring Stephen Dunn in The Adventures of Sam Spade.
2:40.8	Dum-da-dam-dam-tum-tum.
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