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

Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is summoned by his eccentric old acquaintance Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who has received a chain letter promising good fortune if he continues it—and disaster if he breaks it. Johnny is skeptical until he learns that two of Cartwright’s friends died exactly when the letter predicted, suggesting that someone may be using superstition to disguise a very real threat.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 2, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Howard McNear
Paul Dubov
Frank Gerstle
Herb Vigran
Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
Jim Matthews, announcer
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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to the Massachusetts coast after the niece of retired sea captain Amos Weatherby reports a threat against her uncle’s life. She believes a former fiancé with a sinister past has returned to make good on that threat, and Johnny arrives just as a powerful storm approaches the Weatherby home.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Carleton G. Young
Ralph Moody
James McCallion
Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives an urgent call from his old friend Red Barrett, who insists that the will of a recently deceased friend has been altered. Although others dismiss Red’s suspicions, Johnny heads for Arizona and Nevada to investigate—and soon discovers that someone is willing to go to dangerous lengths to keep him from asking questions.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Barney Phillips
Forrest Lewis
Parley Baer
Jack Moyles
Billy Halop
Byron Kane
Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar welcomes an excuse to visit an old friend at a Lake Mojave fishing resort, but the vacation quickly becomes an investigation when a recently released convict is spotted using some very unusual fishing equipment. Johnny sets out to discover what the man is really searching for beneath the lake.

Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Barney Phillips
Sam Edwards
Bartlett Robinson
Forrest Lewis
Ralph Moody
Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar accepts an unusually lucrative assignment to locate the runaway daughter of one of the insurance company's wealthiest clients. But when he finds the missing heiress in New York, his search abruptly becomes a murder investigation in which two of her closest companions each have reason to want her dead

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Les Tremayne
Herb Vigran
Alan Reed
Frank Gerstle
Jack Edwards
Jack Grimes

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

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