Episodi

  • The Half-Million Dollar Suicide Threat

    The Half-Million Dollar Suicide Threat
    Jul 30 2026
    Aired: Mar 25th, 1949. Insurance underwriters call in Johnny Dollar when their $2 million policyholder, playboy Milford Brooks III, threatens to jump out a window unless he's handed a fortune in cash. With a notorious gambler newly named as beneficiary and a client who seems determined to die one way or another, Dollar has to keep his charge alive long enough to figure out who really wants him dead. Wisecracking, brandy-soaked, and itemized down to the last shoeshine, this is the case that launched radio's most famous expense account.
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    30 min
  • 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
  • The Parakoff Policy

    The Parakoff Policy
    Jul 24 2026
    Aired: Feb 18th, 1949. In the very first episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator flies to snowy Benton, Ohio, where a man stands accused of murdering his own business partner — and beneficiary. With $100,000 on the line, Johnny finds a stranger waiting in his hotel room, a defense attorney crying foul play by the prosecution, and a beautiful red-haired widow who was the only eyewitness. Itemized expense account included, of course.
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    30 min