Sam Spade Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
May 16, 2026 · 37 min · 18 segments
Original Release Date: September 12, 2022 A woman with amnesia hires Sam to help with the murdered body she found. Original Air Date: July 11, 1948 Support the show monthly…
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[dramatic music]
[phone rings]
Are you still there?
I believe that interpolation is hardly rhetorical, Mr. Spade.
To what have you been up, if you'll pardon the expression, and has that girl regained her facilities?
I, uh, wouldn't know, but her, uh, faculties are as good as ever, if you'll pardon the expression.
Mr. Spade, sometimes I think you're a regular philanthropist.
Don't you mean philanderer?
How much money did you make out of that case?
Well, I, uh, broke even anyway.
That's what I mean.
You're a philanthropist.
Well, you know best, Bernardine.
By the way, was that man really murdered with a buzz saw, or was that just publicity?
He really was, Bernardine.
Why?
There just happened to be one lying around.
Oh, I don't mean that.
Why was he killed?
For the Wheel of Life.
Oh.
You're not gonna ask what that is?
The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, brought to you by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic, the non-alcoholic hair tonic that contains lanolin.
Wildroot Cream-Oil, again and again, the choice of men who put good grooming first.
[dramatic music]
[phone rings]
Are you still there?
I believe that interpolation is hardly rhetorical, Mr. Spade.
To what have you been up, if you'll pardon the expression, and has that girl regained her facilities?
I, uh, wouldn't know, but her, uh, faculties are as good as ever, if you'll pardon the expression.
Mr. Spade, sometimes I think you're a regular philanthropist.
Don't you mean philanderer?
How much money did you make out of that case?
Well, I, uh, broke even anyway.
That's what I mean.
You're a philanthropist.
Well, you know best, Bernardine.
By the way, was that man really murdered with a buzz saw, or was that just publicity?
He really was, Bernardine.
Why?
There just happened to be one lying around.
Oh, I don't mean that.
Why was he killed?
For the Wheel of Life.
Oh.
You're not gonna ask what that is?
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