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Johnny Dollar was America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator! Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio’s Golden Age!
The Golden Age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out “who done it?” From 1949 until 1962, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the most popular detective shows on the air. Dollar was an insurance investigator who received a cut of the money he saved his agency for proving an insurance claim was not on the level. His insurance cases usually led to murder and a beautiful woman. Many actors played the role of Johnny Dollar over the years. This collection of sixteen half-hour adventures stars Charles Russell, Edmond O’Brien, John Lund, Bob Bailey, and Mandel Kramer as Dollar.
7/24/49 - “The Disappearance of Twelve Apex Cabs”10/29/49 - “The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There”4/4/50 - “The Big Red Schoolhouse Matter”5/25/54 - “The Punctilious Firebug Matter”11/11/56 - “The Big Scoop Matter”11/18/56 - “The Markham Matter”11/25/56 - “The Royal Street Matter”12/9/56 - “The Burning Car Matter”12/16/56 - “The Rasmussen Matter”2/10/57 - “The Templeton Matter”4/20/58 - “The Wayward Trout Matter”4/19/59 - “The Cautious Celibate Matter”11/15/59 - “The Bayou Body Matter”1/31/60 - “The Merry Go Round Matter”2/14/60 - “The P.O. Matter”1/28/62 - “Can’t Be So Matter”
Johnny Dollar was America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio's Golden Age!
The Golden Age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out "who done it?" From 1949 until 1962, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the most popular detective shows on the air. Dollar was an insurance investigator who received a cut of the money he saved his agency for proving an insurance claim was not on the level. His insurance cases usually led to murder and a beautiful woman. Many actors played the role of Johnny Dollar over the years. This collection of sixteen half-hour adventures stars Edmond O'Brien, John Lund, and Bob Bailey as Dollar.
12/17/49 - "The Haiti Adventure" 4/11/50 - "The Dead First Helpers" 11/18/50 - "The Nora Falkner Matter" 5/5/51 - "The Virginia Towne Matter" 9/19/51 - "The Cuban Jewel Matter" 2/16/53 - "The Chicago Fraud Matter" 4/7/53 - "The Enoch Arden Matter" 8/11/57 - "The Killer's Brand Matter" 9/28/58 - "The Gruesome Spectacle Matter" 2/8/59 - "The Date with Death Matter" 4/17/60 - "The Deadly Swamp Matter" 6/26/60 - "The Wholly Unexpected Matter" 7/3/60 - "The Collector's Matter" 3/5/61 - "The Morning After Matter" 4/9/61 - "The Captain's Table Matter" 5/28/61 - "The Yaak Mystery Matter"
Johnny Dollar was America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Enjoy sixteen of his greatest cases from radio’s golden age!
The golden age of radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite detective find out “who done it?” From 1949 until 1962, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the most popular detective shows on the air. Dollar was an insurance investigator who received a cut of the money he saved his agency for proving an insurance claim was not on the level. His insurance cases usually led to murder and a beautiful woman. Many actors played the role of Johnny Dollar over the years. This collection of sixteen half-hour adventures stars Edmond O’Brien, John Lund, and Bob Bailey as Dollar.
Episodes include:
8/24/50 – “The Trans-Pacific Import-Export Company, South China Branch”8/31/50 – “The Virginia Beach Matter”10/28/50 – “The Joan Sebastian Matter”4/14/51 – “The Mickey McQueen Matter”8/1/51 – “The Horace Lockhart Matter”10/20/53 – “The Allen Saxton Matter”10/27/53 – “The Howard Arnold Matter”7/20/54 – “The Jean Maxwell Matter”9/1/57 – “The Poor Little Rich Girl Matter”9/8/57 – “The Charmona Matter”10/6/57 – “The Bum Steer Matter”3/2/58 – “The Diamond Dilemma Matter”3/23/58 – “The Denver Dispersal Matter”4/6/58 – “The Eastern-Western Matter”4/27/58 – “The Village of Virtue Matter”5/4/58 – “The Carson Arson Matter”
First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account."
For 15 years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim. His investigations usually required Dollar to travel to distant locales and often involved murder. The stories were recounted in flashback, as Dollar listed each line item from his expense account: "Item one, $3.75 cab fare to the airport."
Over the years, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, including Charles Russell, John Lund and Edmund O'Brien but in 1955, Bob Bailey, took over as the series was switching to a new dynamic format of 75-minute storylines told in five, 15-minute installments Monday-thru-Friday. While other radio shows were waning in the mid 1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was at its peak. Experts include these 75-minute adventures as the best of the best from radio's golden age.
5/14/56 through 5/18/56 The Medium Well Done Matter5/21/56 through 5/25/56 The Tears of Night Matter5/28/56 through 6/1/56 The Reasonable Doubt Matter6/4/56 through 6/8/56 The Indestructible Mike Matter6/11/56 through 6/15/56 The Laughing Matter6/18/56 through 6/22/56 The Pearling Matter
First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, 'The man with the action-packed expense account.” For 15 years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim. His investigations usually required Dollar to travel to distant locales and often involved murder. The stories were recounted in flashback, as Dollar listed each line item from his expense account: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare to the airport.” Over the years, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, including Charles Russell, John Lund and Edmund O’Brien but in 1955, Bob Bailey, took over as the series was switching to a new dynamic format of 75-minute storylines told in five, 15-minute installments Monday-thru-Friday. While other radio shows were waning in the mid-1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was at its peak. Experts include these 75-minute adventures as the best of the best from radio’s golden age.
1/2/56 through 1/6/56 “The Caylin Matter”
1/30/56 through 2/3/56 “The Flight Six Matter”
2/20/56 through 2/24/56 “The Bennett Matter”
2/27/56 through 3/2/56 “The Fathom Five Matter”
3/12/56 through 3/16/56 “The Clinton Matter”
3/19/56 through 3/23/56 “The Jolly Roger Fraud”
Groucho Marx is your quizmaster and host to one of the funniest and most popular quiz shows from radio and television, You Bet Your Life! Enjoy sixteen fun-filled comedy episodes from the long-running radio series!
Created by John Guedel, You Bet Your Life was one of the best-loved quiz shows to air on both radio and television. It was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. It debuted on radio in 1947 and lasted until 1960. For much of this time it was also seen on television. Contestant teams usually consisted of one male and one female, mostly selected from the studio audience. Groucho would engage in humorous conversations with the contestants and if they said the "secret word" (a common word revealed to the audience at the outset of each episode) a toy duck resembling Groucho-with eyeglasses and a mustache-descended from the ceiling to bring a $100 prize. After the conversations, the actual game began. Contestants were allowed to choose from a list of twenty available categories and try to answer a series of questions within the category to win additional money. At the end of the show, the contestants could play for a Jackpot question, risking half of their previous earnings in the hope of winning the Jackpot. Enjoy sixteen hilarious comedy episodes of You Bet Your Life!
3/26/52 - Secret Word: Table4/2/52 - Secret Word: Chair4/9/52 - Secret Word: Sign4/16/52 - Secret Word: Foot6/4/52 - Secret Word: Clothes6/11/52 - Secret Word: Paper9/17/52 - Secret Word: Chair9/24/52 - Secret Word: Floor10/1/52 - Secret Word: Tree10/22/52 - Secret Word: Table10/29/52 - Secret Word: Heart11/19/52 - Secret Word: Smile12/10/52 - Secret Word: Fire9/16/53 - Secret Word: People9/23/53 - Secret Word: Foot9/30/53 - Secret Word: Smile
Groucho Marx is your quizmaster and host to one of the funniest and most popular quiz shows from radio and television, You Bet Your Life! Enjoy sixteen fun-filled comedy episodes from the long-running radio series!
Created by John Guedel, You Bet Your Life was one of the best-loved quiz shows to air on both radio and television. It was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. It debuted on radio in 1947 and lasted until 1960. For much of this time it was also seen on television.
Contestant teams usually consisted of one male and one female, mostly selected from the studio audience. Groucho would engage in humorous conversations with the contestants and, if they said the "secret word" (a common word revealed to the audience at the outset of each episode), a toy duck resembling Groucho-with eyeglasses and a mustache-descended from the ceiling to bring a $100 prize. After the conversations, the actual game began. Contestants were "allowed to choose" from a list of twenty available categories and try to answer a series of questions within the category to win additional money. At the end of the show, the contestants could play for a jackpot question, risking half of their previous earnings in the hope of winning the Jackpot.
2/7/51 - "Secret Word: Shoe"4/7/54 - "Secret Word: Face"4/14/54 - "Secret Word: Room"4/21/54 - "Secret Word: People"4/28/54 - "Secret Word: Smile"5/5/54 - "Secret Word: Water"5/12/54 - "Secret Word: House"5/19/54 - "Secret Word: Arm"5/26/54 - "Secret Word: Chair"1/31/55 - "Secret Word: Clock"11/23/55 - "Secret Word: Face"11/30/55 - "Secret Word: Sign"12/7/55 - "Secret Word: Chair"12/14/55 - "Secret Word: Name"12/21/55 - "Secret Word: Street"12/28/55 - "Secret Word: Table"
Groucho Marx is your quizmaster and host to one of the funniest and most popular quiz shows from radio and television, You Bet Your Life!
Created by John Guedel, You Bet Your Life was one of the best-loved quiz shows to air on both radio and television. It was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. It debuted on radio in 1947 and lasted until 1960. For much of this time it was also seen on television.
Contestant teams usually consisted of one male and one female, mostly selected from the studio audience. Groucho would engage in humorous conversations with the contestants and if they said the "secret word" (a common word revealed to the audience at the outset of each episode) a toy duck resembling Groucho-with eyeglasses and a mustache-descended from the ceiling to bring a $100 prize. After the conversations, the actual game began. Contestants were able to choose from a list of twenty available categories and try to answer a series of questions within the chosen category to win additional money. At the end of the show, the contestants could play for a Jackpot question, risking half of their previous earnings in the hope of winning the Jackpot. Enjoy sixteen hilarious comedy episodes of You Bet Your Life!
11/29/50 - "Secret Word: Book"3/21/51 - "Secret Word: Coat"3/28/51 - "Secret Word: Street"4/4/51 - "Secret Word: Hand"4/11/51 - "Secret Word: Room"4/18/51 - "Secret Word: Light"4/25/51 - "Secret Word: Wall"5/2/51 - "Secret Word: Paper"5/9/51 - "Secret Word: Foot"10/10/51 - "Secret Word: Street"10/17/51 - "Secret Word: Arm"10/24/51 - "Secret Word: Floor"10/31/51 - "Secret Word: Sky"12/5/51 - "Secret Word: Tree"12/12/51 - "Secret Word: Name"12/19/51 - "Secret Word: Floor"
Groucho Marx is your quizmaster and host to one of the funniest and most popular quiz shows from radio and television, You Bet Your Life!
Created by John Guedel, You Bet Your Life was one of the best-loved quiz shows to air on both radio and television. It was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. It debuted on radio in 1947 and lasted until 1960. For much of this time it was also seen on television.
Contestant teams usually consisted of one male and one female, mostly selected from the studio audience. Groucho would engage in humorous conversations with the contestants and if they said the "secret word" (a common word revealed to the audience at the outset of each episode) a toy duck resembling Groucho-with eyeglasses and a mustache-descended from the ceiling to bring a $100 prize. After the conversations, the actual game began. Contestants were able to choose from a list of twenty available categories and try to answer a series of questions within the chosen category to win additional money. At the end of the show, the contestants could play for a Jackpot question, risking half of their previous earnings in the hope of winning the Jackpot. Enjoy sixteen hilarious comedy episodes of You Bet Your Life!
3/21/51 - "Secret Word: Coat"3/28/51 - "Secret Word: Street"4/4/51 - "Secret Word: Hand"4/11/51 - "Secret Word: Room"4/18/51 - "Secret Word: Light"4/25/51 - "Secret Word: Wall"5/2/51 - "Secret Word: Paper"5/9/51 - "Secret Word: Foot"10/10/51 - "Secret Word: Street"10/17/51 - "Secret Word: Arm"10/24/51 - "Secret Word: Floor"10/31/51 - "Secret Word: Sky"11/29/51 - "Secret Word: Book"12/5/51 - "Secret Word: Tree"12/12/51 - "Secret Word: Name"12/19/51 - "Secret Word: Floor"
X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 until January 9, 1958 over NBC. Initially a revival of NBC''s Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainders were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field. This collection includes stories by Isaac Asimov, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, H.L. Gold, Robert Sheckley and Steven Tall. New York's finest radio actors are heard in the supporting casts, including Bob Hastings, Jan Miner, Luis Van Rooten, Teri Kean and Les Damon.
4/24/55 No Contact
10/20/55 Child's Play
1/4/56 The Roads Must Roll
7/17/56 The Old Die Rich
12/12/56 Hostess
12/19/56 The Reluctant Heroes
4/10/57 Something For Nothing
6/20/57 Inside Story
6/27/57 The Category Inventor
3/13/57 The Lights on Precipice Peak
10/24/57 The Light
11/21/57 The Coffin Cure
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok was a folk hero of the American Old West known for being a lawman, gunfighter, gambler, and showman. He earned a great deal of notoriety in life and in death. His life has been depicted numerous times in literature, radio, television and film. His death is also quite notable - he was shot and killed while playing five-card stud. He was holding two pairs, black aces, and black eights, which has become known as "Dead Man's Hand." In 1951, Kellogg's cereals brought Wild Bill Hickok to radio and television starring Guy Madison as U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and Andy Devine as his gravel-voiced comedy sidekick Jingles P. Jones. The series used a familiar western scenario enjoyed by producers of Hopalong Cassidy and The Cisco Kid in which a strong, fearless hero is accompanied by a comic sidekick. During the 1950s, several episodes of the television shows were spliced together and released as 16 feature films by Monogram Pictures. Enjoy 12 of Wild Bill's greatest radio adventures!
5/27/51 First show in the series
6/3/51 The Missouri Kid
7/29/51 The Shadow Hill Gang
8/12/51 Press for Justice
8/5/51 The Confidence Game
9/9/51 The Trail of Death
9/23/51 A Dangerous Wedding
10/7/51 Mixed Brands
10/21/51 The Mysterious Fist
10/28/51 The Range War
11/4/51 Logging
12/27/54 Silver Dollar Revenge
Whitehall 1212 was the famous telephone number for Scotland Yard-the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force-and also an exciting true crime drama from the golden age of radio!
Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper (the creator of Lights Out and Quiet Please), Whitehall 1212 was a crime drama that aired on NBC from 1951 until 1952. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum, Scotland Yard's repository of death. Similar to The Black Museum, starring Orson Welles, Whitehall 1212 dramatized true-crime cases solved by Scotland Yard. The announcer cued up each episode with, "These are the true stories, the unvarnished facts, just as they occurred, reenacted for you by an all-British cast. Only the names of the participants have for obvious reasons been changed. The stories are presented with the full cooperation of Scotland Yard."
The researcher for the series was Percy Hoskins, the chief crime reporter for London Daily Telegraph. Hoskins was the newspaperman who had initially reported on some of the crimes being dramatized. Enjoy sixteen episodes from this excellent crime series-all true stories from Scotland Yard!
1/6/52 - "The Murder of Charles Brooks"1/13/52 - "Murder in the Black Market"1/20/52 - "The King's Housekeeper's Murder"1/27/52 - "The Murder of Little Philip Avery"2/3/52 - "The Pete Williams Case"2/10/52 - "The Case of the Innocent Bystander"2/17/52 - "The Case of the Late Mrs. Harvey"3/2/52 - "The Case of Air Cadet Gordon"3/30/52 - "The Murder of a Bloody Belgiam"4/27/52 - "The Case of Francesca Nicholson5/18/52 - "The Case of Sidney Wolfe"5/25/52 - "The Case of Maggie Rawlinson"6/1/52 - "The Case of Winifred Hogg"6/15/52 - "The Case of the Homemade Reticule"7/6/52 - "The Murder of Mr. Street"8/3/52 - "The Case of Nora Brady"
