Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Charles Russell Premiere Era (1949–1950) copertina

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Charles Russell Premiere Era (1949–1950)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Charles Russell Premiere Era (1949–1950)

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Johnny Dollar is not a cop, not a private eye with a downtown office — he's a freelance insurance investigator who gets called in whenever an insurer smells something wrong with a claim, and every case becomes a first-person account itemized, expense by expense, for the company footing the bill. Charles Russell originated the role in 1949, playing Dollar as a wisecracking operator whose meticulous "expense account" narration doubles as the story's running commentary, needling suspects and insurers alike. Across tales of arson, fraud, kidnapping, and murder-for-profit, the show turns a claims investigation into a full-blown detective story, with Dollar's tally of cab fares, hotel bills, and "incidental expenses" becoming the sly, funny throughline. It's a founding entry in one of radio's longest-running detective series, and Russell's clipped, brash take on the character set the tone before the role passed to a string of successors.Copyright 07 Audio Network Scienze sociali
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  • Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round

    Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round
    Jul 29 2026
    Aired: Mar 11th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to a dusty Alabama carnival lot to investigate a suspicious string of midway accidents that keep landing paying customers in the hospital—while the show's own people stay strangely untouched. Between tight-lipped carnies, a jittery ferris wheel operator, and a general manager who'd rather talk with his fists than his mouth, Dollar has to figure out if this is bad luck or bad intentions before the next thrill ride turns lethal. A classic 1949 slice of expense-account detective work, spun through calliope music and canvas tents.
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    30 min
  • The Robert Perry Case: A Buzzer, a Bomb, and a Bad Divorce

    The Robert Perry Case: A Buzzer, a Bomb, and a Bad Divorce
    Jul 28 2026
    Aired: Mar 4th, 1949. Johnny Dollar arrives in lower Manhattan to serve as a bodyguard for a nervous $100,000 policyholder — and gets there just in time to watch him blow up. With a rigged desk-buzzer bomb, a Dutch ex-partner collecting a cashier's check, and a soon-to-be-ex-wife who stands to inherit everything, Dollar has no shortage of suspects before the police even arrive. It's classic 1949 Charles Russell Dollar: itemized expenses, wisecracks, and a murder dressed up as an appointment book.
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    30 min
  • The Slow Boat from China

    The Slow Boat from China
    Jul 27 2026
    Aired: Feb 25th, 1949. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar jets from San Francisco to Singapore to unstick a $120,000 cargo ship stranded in port by one mechanical breakdown after another. When the company's own expediter turns up missing from his hotel room in a haze of broken furniture and blood, Dollar has to follow a swizzle stick and a suspiciously generous shipboard engineer through Singapore's waterfront dives to find him before the delay costs a fortune. Wisecracks, cab fares, and a $120 poker loss all make it onto the expense account.
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    29 min
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