Lurene Tuttle and Howard Duff during an episode of Sam Spade

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. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne)
as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie.

William Spier Producer/Director of The Adventures
of Sam Spade

D.J. Fred Fiske (R) of Washington’s WWDC radio interviews Tab Hunter  

       Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm in New York City)

Actor, singer and author Tab Hunter has starred in over forty films.He
had a 1957 hit record with the song "Young Love", which was #1 on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and became one of the larger
hits of the Rock n’ Roll era.

Penny Singleton as Blondie with co-star Arthur Lake playing Dagwood

Blondie is a radio situation comedy adapted from the long-run Blondie comic
strip by Chic Young. The radio program was originally a summer replacement
for The Eddie Cantor Show. However, Cantor did not return in the fall, so the
sponsor, R.J. Reynolds’s Camel Cigarettes chose to keep Blondie on the air
from 1939 to 1950 on several networks. 

Vic and Sade rehearsal: from left: Art Van Harvey, Bernardine Flynn, Paul
Rhymer and Bill Idelson

The radio program Vic and Sade was created and written by Paul Rhymer. It
was regularly broadcast on radio (NBC/CBS) from 1932 to 1944, then heard
intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and
again in 1957.

During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most
popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according
to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the
majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute
episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known
as "radio’s home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van
), his wife Sade (Bernardine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush played
by (Bill Idelson).

The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show aired on NBC/CBS radio from 1928 to 1960. It was adapted
to television in June of 1951 and ran until April 1953 with 78 filmed episodes, and 
was sponsored by the Blatz Brewing Company. The television series used African-
American actors in the main roles, although the actors were instructed to keep
their voices and speech patterns as close to the radio show actors Gosden and
Correll’s as possible. Produced at the Hal Roach Studios for CBS, it was one of
the first television series to be filmed with a multi-camera setup, four months
before the I Love Lucy show used the same technique.

Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were radio’s
Amos ‘n’ Andy