Who created the detective Sam Spade?
The Adventures of Sam Spade the Red Channels book, he was not invited to play the role when the series made the switch to NBC in 1950. In 1961 "Broadcasting" reported that Four Star Productions planned to film a "Sam Spade" television pilot with Peter Falk in the title role, but no such series ever arrived on TV. The different incarnations of the series were: The Adventures of Sam Spade The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective 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
Sam Spade Spade was played by Edward G. Robinson in a 1943 "Lux Radio Theatre" production, and by Bogart in both a 1943 "Screen Guild Theater" production and a 1946 "Academy Award Theater" production. A 1946-1951 radio show called "The Adventures of Sam Spade" (on ABC, CBS, and NBC) starred Howard Duff (and later Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as Spade's devoted secretary Effie Perrine, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character. George Segal played Sam Spade, Jr., son of the original, in the 1975 film spoof, "The Black Bird". "The Black Bird" was panned by