The Adventures of Sam Spade — 1950
46 episodes broadcast in 1950.
January 1, 1950
The Gorgeous Gemini Caper
January 8, 1950
The Third Personcille Caper
January 15, 1950
The Phantom Witness Caper
January 22, 1950
The Wedding Belle Caper
January 29, 1950
The Too Many Leads Caper
February 5, 1950
The Black Magic Caper
February 12, 1950
Crossword Puzzle Caper
February 19, 1950
The Valentine's Day Caper
February 26, 1950
The Cornelius J. Morningside Caper
March 5, 1950
The Homicidal Husband Caper
March 12, 1950
The Barbary Ghost Caper
March 19, 1950
The Emerald Eyes Caper
March 26, 1950
The Bay Psalm Caper
April 2, 1950
The Endurance Caper
April 9, 1950
The Picture Frame Caper
April 16, 1950
The Kansas Kid Caper
April 23, 1950
The Caldwell Caper
April 30, 1950
The Hamite Curse Caper
May 7, 1950
Caper with Marjorie's Things
Preserved only as a rehearsal tape for the May 28 broadcast, this NBC-era case follows the arrest of Ben Comiskey for a liquor-store holdup and the old story of a good brother and a bad one.
May 14, 1950
The Prodigal Son Caper
June 4, 1950
The V.i.p. Caper
June 11, 1950
The Color Scheme Caper
June 18, 1950
The Elmer Longtail Caper
June 25, 1950
The Toytown Caper
July 2, 1950
The Beryl Green Caper
July 9, 1950
The Runaway Redhead Caper
July 16, 1950
The Man Who Knew Almost Everything Caper
July 23, 1950
The Stormy Weather Caper
July 30, 1950
The Rod and Reel Caper
August 6, 1950
The Bell of Solomon Caper
August 13, 1950
The Missing Persons Caper
August 20, 1950
The Preposterous Caper
August 27, 1950
The Too Many Clients Caper
Needing a room for the night, Spade stumbles into a strange tourist court complete with a man buried alive, gunshots in the dark and a beautiful woman waiting in his room.
September 10, 1950
The Big Little Woody Caper
September 17, 1950
The Femme Fatale Caper
Steve Dunne debuts as Spade: an undertaker certain he is being followed hires the detective, and the shadowing leads, naturally, to the 'death' of Sam Spade.
A nervous little man named Tom Turkey is convinced somebody means to kill him for Thanksgiving, and hires Spade to see that they do not.
Three bullets finish off I.J. Barco in mid-drink, launching a knotty case of murder and extortion that has nothing whatever to do with dog beds.
'Marshal Spade' of the California Rangers rides into a ghost town to face down Blackie Tolliver and his gang in a tongue-in-cheek Western caper.
From a sick man at Mama Pizza's to a swim in San Francisco Bay to a postcard meant for Boris, Spade follows an oddly numbered trail.
December 22, 1950
The Caper Concerning Big
An eight-year-old hires Spade to catch the armed pair who stole his little brother's toy panda -- and to stop a poisoner along the way.
◆ ◆ ◆