Sam Spade aired July 18, 1948 episode 095 Missing Newshawk Caper stars Howard Duff as Sam Spade.

Lurene Tuttle returned to the series as secretary Effie Perine after taking the previous three episodes off.

Spade is hired to find a reporter named Ray McCully. Spade finds him all right, stabbed to death! Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Dashiell Hammett (creator), William Conrad, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet (possibly), Alan Reed, Gil Doud (writer, director), Robert Tallman (writer), Lud Gluskin (music), Dick Joy (announcer).

In New York, this episode ran at 8PM on WCBS opposite The Robert Shaw Chorale on NBC, Alexander's Meditation Board on WOR/MBS, and Stop the Music on WJZ/ABC.

In Los Angeles, it ran at 9PM on KNX/CBS opposite The Symphony Hour on KFI/NBC, news on KHJ/MBS, and Unexpected on KECA/ABC.

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon . The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951.