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Well now it is time for this week's episode of the Adventures of Sam Spade.

The original air date April 20th, 1951 and the title is The Routing Douser Caper.

The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

Sam Spade Detective Agency. Hello, hello, hello.

Sam? At this hour on this network you were expecting maybe Mary Margaret McBride.

I've been expecting anything Sam. After all to have you drop out of sight like that,

leaving out a ripple on the surface for four whole days. Mr. Livingstone is frantic.

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. It's no joke Sam. Nothing, huh?

You have no right to worry me like this. It's not Sam. Where are you?

To the only spot on earth as yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society,

Sweet Art, the Vale of Takaloma, and don't try to find it on a map because it isn't.

Set yourself for my saga of a crook's tour of the hinterlands with just a touch of mysticism,

which is why I call it the Rowdy Douser Caper. All right, Margot Roy, these will do.

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