The Adventures of Sam Spade — 1949
58 episodes broadcast in 1949.
January 2, 1949
The Three-Sided Bullet Caper
January 9, 1949
The Double Negative Caper
Spade's quiet evening with a Western novel is shattered by a fast, rowdy case its own cast seems to be enjoying -- the 'Betrayal in Bumpass Hell.'
January 23, 1949
The Main Event Caper
January 30, 1949
The Double Life Caper
February 6, 1949
The Firebug Caper
February 13, 1949
The Brothers Keeper Caper
February 20, 1949
The Attitude Caper
February 27, 1949
The Three Cornered Frame Caper
March 6, 1949
The Waltzing Matilda Caper
March 13, 1949
The Underseal Caper
March 20, 1949
The Trojan Horse Caper
An anonymous love letter -- crank note, bait, or a cry for help? -- leads Spade to Ella Comstock, a suitcase of jewels and a three-million-dollar inheritance.
April 3, 1949
The Vacation Caper
Threatening letters call Spade to a decaying mansion of poisonous plants and a Frankenstein-like butler, where every watch in the house has stopped at the very same moment.
A psychoanalyst hires Spade to draw a confession from a beautiful, guilt-haunted woman convinced she glimpsed her son's supposed killer on the street -- and Spade falls for her instead.
April 24, 1949
The Hot Cargo Caper
On an island in San Francisco Bay an eccentric artist is murdered in a locked room, and the man who hired Spade fears an old enemy has finally tracked him to the house next door.
May 8, 1949
The Fast Talk Caper
May 15, 1949
The Darling Daughter Caper
May 22, 1949
The Cartwright Clip Caper
May 29, 1949
The Jane Doe Caper
A society wife hires Spade to quietly recover her stolen -- and secretly uninsured -- necklace before her husband learns it is gone, which soon puts a corpse in the Murphy bed.
June 12, 1949
Sam and the Guiana Sovereign
A battered woman named Eve Adams begs Spade for help; minutes later her rival storms in, the two come to blows, and Eve turns up dead.
June 26, 1949
The Goat's Milk Caper
July 3, 1949
The Hamburger Sandwich Caper
Called in over a rash of thefts at an exclusive girls' school, Spade is handed a suspect with no evidence against her -- until formic acid turns the case to murder.
A gambling-hall owner asks Spade to return a fabulous 'Tears of Night' necklace put up as collateral, but its rightful owner is already wearing one exactly like it.
July 31, 1949
The Hot-Foot Caper
Hired to protect a wealthy man from a newly freed ex-employee, Spade ends the case at the morgue -- knowing exactly who did the killing and wishing he did not.
August 14, 1949
The Sourdough Mountain Caper
August 21, 1949
The Silver Key Caper
A silent multimillionaire, a daughter who is really a gangster's moll, and a corpse killed twice draw Spade deep into the Scully family fortune.
September 4, 1949
The Flashback Caper
September 11, 1949
The Costume Caper
Effie is at Sam's own funeral when he telephones the office very much alive -- his wry account of how Sam Spade came to be reported dead.
An oil-rich chief hires Spade to find a vanished engineer, who is promptly found scalped with a valuable wampum belt gone -- the caper with the near-unpronounceable name.
October 2, 1949
The Junior G-Man Caper
October 9, 1949
The Hot Hothouse Caper
October 16, 1949
The Pretty Polly Caper
October 23, 1949
(untitled)
October 30, 1949
(untitled)
Spade finds fifty dollars and a photograph of a blonde tucked inside his sandwich, three words scrawled on the back: 'Find the girl!'
November 13, 1949
The Blues in the Night Caper
November 20, 1949
The Peacock Feather Caper
November 27, 1949
(untitled)
A washed-up Chicago detective muscles in on Spade's oddest job yet -- crashing a costume party dressed as white rabbits, at a hundred dollars a head.
December 11, 1949
(untitled)
December 18, 1949
The Whispering Death Caper
December 25, 1949
The Canterbury Christmas Caper
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