This episode was originally released on 7/1/2020. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.____________In Breaking Walls Episode 105 we pour shots and take dictation with The Adventures of Sam Spade. ——————————Highlights:• Bill Spier’s Musical Beginnings Lead to Suspense• Howard Duff: Unknown Actor• How About Now For Sam Spade?• CBS and ABC compete for Spade• Spade Versus Bergen & McCarthy• 1947-48: Radio’s Highest-Rated Season• Spade Hits Its Stride• Stop The Music• June Havoc, Uncredited Spade Actress• Unamerican Hammett? Unamerican Duff?• Spade Gets Cancelled—Twice• Howard Duff: Radio Preservationist• What’s Next——————————The WallBreakers:http://thewallbreakers.comSubscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.To support the show:http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers——————————The reading material used in today’s episode was:On the Air — By John DunningNetwork Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim Ramsburg As well as articles from the archives of Billboard Magazine, Broadcasting Magazine, Radio Daily, and Variety. ——————————On the interview front:• Eve Arden, Howard Duff, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingofRadio.com.• Dick Joy, Elliott Lewis, and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.• Howard Duff, June Havoc, and Bill Spier were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear their full chats at https://goldenage-wtic.org/• Lurene Tuttle remembered radio with Same Time, Same Station on February 6th, 1972.• Frank Stanton spoke with CBS in honor of their 50th anniversary in 1977.• Mary Jane Croft was with SPERDVAC on March 14th, 1992. For more information, please go to SPERDVAC.com.——————————Selected music featured in today’s episode was:• Fever — By Peggy Lee• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes — By The Mallett Men• Young At Heart — By Frank Sinatra• The Prologue and Main Title piece from High Spirits — By George Fenton• Atomic Cocktail — By Slim Gaillard