Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Bob Bailey 30-Minute Era (1956–1960)

About Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Bob Bailey 30-Minute Era (1956–1960)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar follows radio's toughest freelance insurance investigator as he tracks down fraud, blackmail, and murder one expense account at a time. In this run, from 1955 to 1956, Bob Bailey took over the role and brought a world-weary, wisecracking edge to Johnny, with each case unfolding across a week of tight, cliffhanger-driven quarter-hour episodes rather than a single half-hour story. Sharp scripts from writer-director Jack Johnstone and a deep bench of radio's best character actors make this stretch a favorite among old-time radio fans and often cited as the series at its peak. It's hardboiled detective fiction built for serialized listening, decades before the podcast binge existed.

Publisher

07 Audio Network

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2026

Latest episode

5 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Sept 2026

   The Hapless Hunter Matter

   Aired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead in the woods near Kingman, New York, gunned down by his own hunting guide — or so the story goes. Johnny Dollar heads upstate to check the numbers behind a half-million-dollar policy, only to find a suspiciously wounded beneficiary, an overprotective doctor, and a case that refuses to add up.

2. 

   5 Sept 2026

   Johnny Dollar and the Drunken Guide's Secret

   Aired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead and his hunting companion lies wounded in a hospital bed, with the local police pinning it all on a hard-drinking backwoods guide. But Johnny Dollar smells something off about the beneficiary's convenient alibi, and no amount of doctor's reassurance is going to stop him from chasing the half-million-dollar question. A classic Bob Bailey-era mystery of insurance fraud, small-town suspicion, and a detective who trusts his hunches over everyone's word.

3. 

   4 Sept 2026

   The Sunny Dream Matter

   Aired: Dec 1st, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a quiet retirement home outside Buckland Center, where the elderly residents seem content and well cared for — but five of them have died in the past six months, and each time, the home itself was the beneficiary. What looks like a run of bad luck for the actuarial tables starts to smell like something far more deliberate. Bob Bailey brings his weary, wisecracking charm to a case where the real danger hides behind rocking chairs and garden parties.

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