Category: NBC

Sam Spade: The Red Star Caper (EP4137)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, William Conrad

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Alibi (EP4136)

Today’s Mystery:

An elderly store owner is beaten and robbed.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Herb Vigran, Betty Lou Gerson, Paul Frees, Dan Riss

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Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Gouczek (EP4133)


Today’s Mystery:

On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 21, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Betty Lou Gerson, Don Diamond, Hal Girard, Lynn Allen, Fitz Feld

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Sam Spade: The Biddle Riddle Caper (EP4131)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Spade is called in by the producer of a true crime radio program to find a witness who claims to know who committed an unsolved murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1951

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Displaced Person (EP4124)

Today’s Mystery:

A mother and her son find an unidentified woman dead in the woods.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg, Richard Beals, Herb Ellis, Henry Roland, Dan Riss

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Dangerous Assignment: Stolen UN Documents (EP4121)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official’s home, and finds himself investigating the official’s wife’s murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 14, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Jan Arvan, Don Diamond, Wally Maher, Paul Dubov

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Sam Spade: The Prodigal Panda Caper (EP4119)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is hired by a 9 year-old who claims to have been robbed of a toy panda

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, William Conrad, Wally Maher, Tommy Cook, Cathy Lewis, Sidney Miller, Tony Barret

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Three Victims (EP4118)

Today’s Mystery:

A middle-aged husband and wife are found dead, with their son surviving as the witness.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952

Originated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Ken Christy, Roy Glenn, Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg

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Dangerous Assignment: File 72 (EP4115)


Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Balkans to recapture a stolen top secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it…for a price.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 7, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Dubov, Don Diamond

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Sam Spade: The 25-1235679 Caper (EP4113)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery: A friend of Sam’s asks him to find out why a street musician was nearly brained to death.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 15, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Cover Up (EP4112)

Today’s Mystery:A man shows up at his best friend’s house to find blood on the floor and a stranger claimed to have been hired to take care of the house.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Paul Frees, Dolly Major, Lamont Johnson, Leo Curley, Lou Krugman

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Dangerous Assignment: Atomic Fission Formula (EP4109)


Today’s Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who’s stolen half of a top-secret formula…and killed the person who had it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 31, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner

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Sam Spade: The Dry Gulch Caper (EP4107)

Steve Dunne

Today’s Mystery:

Sam is summoned to a ghost town by an elderly man, who believes Sam is a California Marshal, to help him fight an outlaw.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 8, 1950

Originated from Hollywood

Starred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher as Buck, Alan Reed

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Last Stop (EP4100)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace Pearson suspects foul play in a fatal train crash.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1952

Originiated from Hollywood

Starred: Joel McCrea as Jace Pearson, Tony Barrett, Leo Curley, Ken Christie, Burt Holland, Whitfield Connor, Jeffrey Silver

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Dangerous Assignment: Recover Stolen Dynamite (EP4097)


Today’s Mystery:

Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve’s only clue? A piece of string found in his pocket.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1951

Originated in Hollywood

Stars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Stacy Harris, Al Brown, Kay Stewart, Byron Kane, Don Diamond, Raymond Burr

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