CBS
CBS · 1943–1951
Broadcasts
205
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1943
The run
The Adventures of Sam Spade was first heard on ABC July 12, 1946, as a Friday-night summer series. The show clicked at once, and went into a regular fall lineup on CBS September 29, 1946. From then until 1949, Sam Spade was a Sunday-night thriller for Wildroot Cream Oil, starring Howard Duff in the title role.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
12 dated broadcasts across 9 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
8 Feb 1943 · 57 min
Broadcast 8 February 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
10 Jan 1948 · 1h 1m
1 Aug 1948 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 August 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
3 Oct 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 October 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
12 Dec 1948 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 December 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
17 Apr 1949 · 25 min
Broadcast 17 April 1949. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
17 Jul 1949 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 17 July 1949. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
6 Nov 1949 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 November 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Aug 1948.
1 August
1948
Mutual
Sunday
30 min
Broadcast 1 August 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_Under_Arrest_SinglesCondition unmeasured
1 August
1948
AFRS / War Department
Sunday
14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Internet ArchiveTheVoiceOfTheArmyCondition unmeasured
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