Under Arrest
Broadcast 1 August 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1943–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 205
- Genre
- noir
The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role.
1951 · 31950 · 11949 · 31948 · 41943 · 1
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 40 of 40
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Sam_Spade_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Lux Radio Theater The Maltese Falcon · 8 Feb 1943
- 2. Suspense 48-01-10 ( Sam Spade) The Kandi Tooth · 10 Jan 1948
- 3. Adventures of Sam Spade 1948-08-01 (110) The Dry Martini Caper · 1 Aug 1948
- 01
Lux Radio Theater The Maltese Falcon
8 Feb 1943 · 57 min
Broadcast 8 February 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Suspense 48-01-10 ( Sam Spade) The Kandi Tooth
10 Jan 1948 · 1h 1m
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Sam_Spade_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
Adventures of Sam Spade 1948-08-01 (110) The Dry Martini Caper
1 Aug 1948 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 August 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Adventures of Sam Spade 1948-10-03 (119) The Sugar Kane Caper
3 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Adventures of Sam Spade 1948-12-12 (129) The Bouncing Betty Caper
12 Dec 1948 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
SamSpade Subject Edith Hamilton Afrs
17 Apr 1949 · 25 min
Broadcast 17 April 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
Cuttyhunk Caper
17 Jul 1949 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 17 July 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Adventures of Sam Spade 1949-11-06 (176) The Cheesecake Caper
6 Nov 1949 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 November 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
1 Aug 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Aug 1948.
The Voice of the Army
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1943–1951
Other series the network carried while The Adventures of Sam Spade was on the air.
Same seasons
noir on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Adventures of Sam Spade
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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