The Adventures of Sam Spade — 1948
61 episodes broadcast in 1948.
A hit-and-run killing points Spade toward a Dutch cigarette case and a bullet engraved with his own name.
January 11, 1948
The Short Life Caper
January 18, 1948
The Pike's Head Caper
A single gold key -- and the question of what door it opens -- pulls Spade into a tangle of greed, machine guns and half a million dollars.
February 1, 1948
The Nimrod Caper
February 8, 1948
The Great Drought Caper
February 15, 1948
The Goldie Gates Caper
February 22, 1948
The Mason Grayson Caper
February 29, 1948
The Grim Reaper Caper
March 7, 1948
John's Other Wife's Other Husband
March 14, 1948
The Ides of March Caper
March 21, 1948
The Nightmare Town Caper
March 28, 1948
The Blood Money Payoff
April 4, 1948
(untitled)
April 11, 1948
The Judas Caper
April 18, 1948
The Night Flight Caper
April 25, 1948
The Great Lover Caper
May 2, 1948
The Double-S Caper
May 9, 1948
The Curiosity Caper
May 16, 1948
The Girl Called Echs, Caper
May 23, 1948
The Navarraise Falcon
May 30, 1948
The Prisoner of Zenda Caper
June 6, 1948
The I.q. Caper
June 13, 1948
The Honest Cop Caper
Summoned to witness a dying man's last words, Spade ends up standing over two deathbed statements and a client whose own brother names him a murderer.
A million-dollar armored-car robbery lands Spade in a spot so tight he needs bail of his own, with Sandra Gould filling in for the vacationing Effie.
Hired to guard a cursed wedding diamond, Spade can only watch as both bride and groom are murdered -- the groom stabbed with a pair of garden shears.
A woman with no memory and a corpse cut down by a buzz saw send Spade digging into who she is and who wanted her forgotten.
A cantankerous editor hires Spade to find his missing star crime reporter; Spade finds him, all right -- stabbed to death.
A half-mad inventor hires Spade to recover his stolen wonder-plastic formula 'Pentron,' and Spade winds up committed to an asylum for his trouble.
A wealthy man named Martini is shot in broad daylight after a botched kidnapping -- and phoned Spade only minutes before, in what may be coincidence or bait.
A worried brother begs Spade to save his sister from her fiance, a smiling charmer whose three previous wives all died on their honeymoons, each heavily insured in his favor.
A grieving heiress vanishes on the way to her father's country house, and the stepmother who needs her signature hires Spade to find her, with a mystery novelist somehow at the heart of it.
Spade is paid to carry an ancient Greek gold cup safely by train to Los Angeles, which naturally makes him the bull's-eye for every double-crosser after it.
Fresh out of prison, gangster Johnny Lawless hires Spade -- and a body turns up in Spade's own bed, then promptly vanishes, dragging him into a wartime frame-up.
A dusty, gray-faced stranger asks Spade to 'bring him back from the dead': a story of a faked death, a phony insurance claim, plastic surgery and a return no one will believe.
A wealthy wife thinks her husband is being blackmailed; Spade trails him to a casino and watches him drop a hundred thousand dollars at the roulette wheel.
An old detective friend asks Spade to shadow a vengeful ex-con; the ex-con turns up dead and Spade ends the night floating in San Francisco Bay.
A beautiful young woman is set to marry into the wealthy Cavanaugh family, but a hoodlum, an old scandal and a sudden death say the wedding will not go smoothly.
October 10, 1948
The Bostwick Snatch Caper
October 17, 1948
The Rumanian Con Game Caper
A screaming neighbor, her violent boyfriend and a midnight knock at the door rob Spade of a night's sleep and hand him a murder.
Hired to keep the peace at a Halloween masquerade, Spade cannot stop the party's big engagement announcement from turning into the bride-to-be's murder.
Spade turns down a shabby divorce job, only to have it curdle into a killing at the Belvedere Hotel.
November 14, 1948
The Gin Rummy Caper
November 21, 1948
The Golden Fleece Caper
The murder of a gum-machine tycoon who feared rivals were smashing his machines gives Spade plenty to chew on.
December 5, 1948
The Neveroff Masterpiece Caper
Posing as a chauffeur to guard a threatened heiress, Spade discovers the deadly 'Betty' at the center of the case is not a woman at all.
December 19, 1948
The Giveaway Caper
December 26, 1948
The Nick Saint Caper
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