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This episode was originally released 07/2020.
The radio networks opened the 1947-48 fall season with a sense that history was in the making. Nearly eleven million babies had been born in the US since the end of World War II. Movie attendance bombed as young parents stayed home with their children. Homes with radios jumped 6%, car radios 29%. It would prove to be the highest-rated season in radio history. Network revenue topped two-hundred million dollars.
Spade opened the season running almost neck-and-neck with Bergen. Although Bergen averaged a 21.5 in October, Spade’s rating jumped to 19.2. After struggling in its first season on CBS, The Adventures of Sam Spade jumped into Sunday night’s top ten. Although Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy won their time slot, Spade’s rating peaked in January of 1948 with a 22.6. Roughly twenty million people were tuning in each week.
On Sunday, June 20th, 1948, Spade got involved in “The Deathbed Caper.” During a time of the year when radio audiences were notably smaller thanks to summer activities, Spade still had roughly twelve million listeners. “The Deathbed Caper” featured Hollywood radio legends William Conrad, Elliott Reed, Lou Krugman, Cathy Lewis, and Elliott Lewis, who by 1948 was acting and script-editing all over the dial. For Bill Spier, Sam Spade was a welcome change of pace.
While Effie Perrine got her summer vacation, The Adventures of Sam Spade kept broadcasting right through to the Fall. Jo Eisinger had departed from the writing team in March of 1947. Gil Doud joined Bob Tallman until 1949, when writers like John Michael Hayes and E. Jack Neuman came in. Sandra Gould played the new secretary Bernadine, Mary Jane Croft was Vivian.
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