Ep.466 The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Civic Pride 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

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 32 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 Civic Pride Caper: After an auditorium collapses, Garrett Welsh, the architect, hires Spade to fi...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgia Mystery Radio.
0:21.4	I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.1	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.
0:26.6	For this episode, I bring you, The Adventures of Sam Spade, episode titled, The Civic Pride Caper, originally aired April 13th, 1951, where an architect hired Spade to find out why an auditorium collapsed.
0:43.0	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:49.1	Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company
0:58.9	presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
1:06.2	Sam Spade Detective Agency.
1:12.4	Me, sweetheart.
1:13.4	Oh, you.
1:14.9	What's the matter now?
1:16.7	Oh, nothing.
1:18.1	You just up and leave and don't say where you're going,
1:20.3	and I'm only your secretary,
1:22.1	and I'm the last one to know about it,
1:23.5	and everybody else in town knows more than I do,
1:25.7	and I wasn't even for it.
1:26.5	Enough, enough, enough. Wait a minute. How did everybody in town know about it? Well, it was in the newspapers, that's all. In the society column, no less. Really? Well, imagine that. Flora Bell Frolix column. Flora then. Mr. Spade, the notorious private detective, is vacationing at Westover as a guest of a promising
1:44.4	young architect, Garrett Welch. Notorious yet. Well, at least they spell my name right.
1:50.1	I suppose you had a great time. Well, it was exciting. What did you do? Just talked over old
1:55.2	times, F, did a little hunting, little shooting. Did you bag anything? F, watch your language.
2:00.3	Damn. I see you're shocked. F. Watch your language. Damn.
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