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now let's get into this week's episode of Sam Spade. The original air date,

February 16th, 1951, and the title is The Soap Opera Caper.

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

Sam Spade Detective Agency.

Please, sweetheart. Was it awful, Sam?

Excruciating. If I suffered, girl, how I suffered. But there's no other way, Sam.

When they turned against them.

Cool, dear one, true. But from somewhere I must find strength. To pick up

the shattered fragments of my life. To raise my eyes once again to the horizon and

piece by piece, put them together again. And the two of us, dear one hand in hand,

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