The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)

Today's Mystery: When an old college friend asks Johnny Dollar to protect her husband from a former sweetheart she fears is bent on murder, Johnny finds himself caught in the middle of a tangled love triangle. But as he digs deeper, he begins to suspect that not everyone is telling the truth about the danger they're facing.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 7, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Also starring Virginia Gregg, Les Tremayne, Sam Edwards, and James McCallion.

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.

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Today's Mystery: After receiving a cryptic phone call from an elderly fan who fears for her life, Johnny Dollar flies to the California coast to investigate. What begins as a seemingly confused plea for help soon leads him into a dangerous operation involving smugglers, heroin traffickers, and a determined old woman who knows far too much.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.

Also starring Peggy Weber, Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Joseph Kearns, and Russell Thorson.

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. 

Today's Mystery: When a series of elderly bachelors and widowers vanish from small towns across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to determine whether their disappearances are connected. Following a trail of wine cellars, unusual wills, and a secretive gourmet society, Johnny uncovers one of the strangest cases of his career.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 24, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Also starring Harry Bartell, Forrest Lewis, Bartlett Robinson, Parley Baer, and Marvin Miller.

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is asked to protect a respected New Jersey stockbroker whose past involvement in a fraudulent securities scheme has made him the target of blackmail. When the ex-convict behind the threat demands a fortune in exchange for silence, Johnny finds himself racing to stop a deadly trap before it destroys an innocent family.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Also starring G. Stanley Jones, Alan Reed, and Frank Gerstle. Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar accepts a dinner invitation from an insurance executive friend who seems troubled by something he can't quite bring himself to discuss. When the evening takes a tragic turn, Johnny discovers that a mysterious steak delivery and an angry claimant with a grudge may hold the key to what really happened.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 10, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Also starring Virginia Gregg, D. J. Thompson, Jack Edwards, Marvin Miller, Larry Dobkin, Harry Bartell, and Frank Gerstle. Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. Announcer...

Today's Mystery:Johnny Dollar heads to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of a liquor store owner who had survived multiple robbery attempts over the years. As Johnny digs deeper, suspicion begins to center on the victim’s glamorous young widow and the strange pattern behind the repeated holdup attempts at the store.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 26, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Also starring Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Paul Dubov, and Frank Nelson.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny takes a nationwide dash to escape Durango Laramie Dalheart and avoid a foced marriage.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Tatum, John McIntire, G. Stanley Jones

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is summoned to Bum Spung, Oklahhoma by a friend of Durango Laramie's.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Junius Matthews, G. Stanley Jones, James McCallion, Bill James

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Today's Mystery: On a tip from his informant, Smokey, Johnny travels to San Francisco to investigate a fire everyone insists was an accident.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12,. 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Virginia Gregg, Gil Stratton, Jr., Tony Barrett, Vic Perin, Lawrence Dobkin, Alan Reed, Paul Dubov, Bartlett Robinson, Donald Mosley

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called by a boy in New England who helped solve a case to report he's the only witness to a murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 29, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Richard Beals, Lawrence Dobkin

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to Lake Mead near Las Vegas to investigate the disappearance of an insured where foul play is suspected.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 22, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lawrence Dobkin, Bartlett Robinson, Frank Nelson, Harry Bartell, Gil Stratton Jr.

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Johnny goes undercover as a seaman on a Corpus Christi-bound ship to prevent the destruction of the ship and its cargo.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar and Barton Yarborough

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate a case of modern day pilots robbing a yacht at sea.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Eleanor Audley, Vic Perrin, Howard McNear, Lawrence Dobkin, Will Wright, Carleton G. Young, Jack Edwards

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Today's Mystery: Johnny investigates a theft from a men's clothing store that has apparently left the night watchman dead.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Vic Perrin; Harry Bartell; Barney Phillips; Bartlett Robinson; Bill James

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives a telephone call from a denizen of the Parisian underworld about an insured oil painting.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; G. Stanley Jones; Forrest Lewis; Harry Bartell; Joseph Kearns; Bert Holland; Byron Kane

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Today's Mystery: An eccentric elderly woman has Johnny guard her while she's wearing a valuable necklace to a party.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lillian Buyeff; Jack Edwards; Barney Phillips; Forrest
Lewis; Eric Snowden

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Nevada mining town to investigate the death of an insured elderly man married to a twenty-seven year-old woman.

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Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lillian Buyeff, Irene Tedrow, D. J. Thompson, Herb Ellis, Marvin Miller, Forrest Lewis, Bob Bruce, Russ Thorson

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Today's Mystery: A desperate criminal is gunning for Johnny after failing to kill him last week.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lucille Meredith, James McCallion, Russ Thorson, Sam Edwards, Herb Vigran

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to find an inexpensive statue that's held in high emotional value by an eccentric elderly woman who would pay a $75,000 ransom.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Eleanor Audley; G. Stanley Jones; Eric Snowden; Sam Edwards

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Today's Mystery: A woman calls to report that a man was murdered and she's not sure if she did it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Junius Matthews; Paul Dubov; James McCallion; Alan Reed; Frank Gerstle

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Today's Mystery: Johnny searches for a missing embezzler who called Johnny and let him know he was in Hollywood.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 4, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Jeanne Tatum, Parley Baer, Forrest Lewis,
Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in by an insured man who suddenly dies. Is it murder?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 30, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Shirley Mitchell; Jack Edwards; Ralph Moody; Junius Matthews; Parley Baer

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Today's Mystery: Johnny has to determine which of two men are the long-lost beneficiary to a large life insurance policy.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 16, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Vic Perrin; Sam Edwards; James McCallion; Parley Baer

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called to investigate the death of an insured man in a car accident that quickly turns out to be murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Junius Matthews; Joseph
Kearns

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate a $100,000 payroll robbery.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 28, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Shepard Menken; Frank Gerstle

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Today's Mystery: An insurance case was closed, but the agency forgot about a fraudulent claim for the jewelry.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Jack Edwards; Marvin Miller; Joseph Kearn

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Johnny goes to a private island to investigate the attempted theft of a $250,000 necklace belonging to the owner of the island.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1953

Starring: John Lund as Johnny Dollar; Howard McNear

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Johnny travels to a small town when a doctor raises doubts about the cause of a death of a young man who supposedly died of a heart attack.

Original Air Date: July 18, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Edmond O'Brien as Johnny Dollar

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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Malibu to investigate the sinking of a $150,000 yacht.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 7, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Jack Edwards; Marvin Miller; Joseph Kearn

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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called to a small desert town where an old prospector is determined to change his life insurance beneficiary...to his burrow.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Herb Vigran; Howard McNear; Jeanne Tatum; Junius Matthews; Lawrence Dobkin; Forrest Lewis; Jack Kruschen; Richard Crenna; Bill James

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to verify the fate of a businessman who disappeared in the Palisades glacier.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 12, 1957

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; John Dehner; Herb Ellis; Virginia Gregg; Forrest Lewis; James McCallion; Tom Hanley; John James

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Today's Mystery: Johnny's called in to determine whether a theatrical producer died of natural causes or was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 24, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.Virginia Gregg, Bartlett Robinson, Marvin Miller, Junius Matthews

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in to investigate the theft of $58,000 from a ludite furniture manufacturing company.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Will Wright, Herb Vigran, Forrest Lewis, Edgar Barrier, Richard Beals, Bill James, Gus Bayz

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Colorado to investigate the death of a cantankerous old rancher
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Ken Christy; Vic Perrin; Lawrence Dobkin; Virginia Gregg; Will Wright; Shirley Mitchell

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called to protect an insured man who witnessed a murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Edgar Barrier; Herb Vigran; James McCallion; Paul Dubov; Lawrence Dobkin; John Dehner; Bill James; Vic Perrin

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Today's Mystery: An apparent accidental death of a businessman on a fishing trip is confirmed to be murder. Who did it?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 20, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Parley Baer; Forrest Lewis; Barney Phillips; Alan Reed; Russell Thorson

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes out to Lake Mohave on a tip from a guide that an apparent accidental death might not have been so accidental.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 13, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lucille Meredith; Forrest Lewis; Parley Baer; Alan Reed; Barney Phillips

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Today's Mystery: Johnny investigates the disappearance of a insured importer.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 6, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Paula Winslowe; D.J. Thompson; Harry Bartell; Stacy Harris; Vic Perrin; Bob Bruce

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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to South Carolina to investigate the disappearance of an ex-mobster who had gone straight.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1958

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Jack Kruschen; Les Tremayne; Billy Halop; Frank Gerstle; Gil Stratton Jr.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in when three members of the board of a small company covered by a group life policy are murdered in a short period of time.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, Herb Vigran, Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle

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