Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 125 Mp3 Downloads Available

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - OTR Picture Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama about a "fabulous" freelance insurance investigator "with the action-packed expense account." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962. There were 811 episodes in the 12-year run, and more than 720 still exist today.

Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive, calling on Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. Each story required Johnny to travel to some distant locale, usually within the United States but sometimes abroad, where he was almost always threatened with personal danger in the course of his investigations. Johnny's file on each case was usually referenced as a "matter," as in "The Silver Blue Matter" or "The Forbes Matter." Later episodes were more fanciful, with titles like "The Wayward Trout Matter" and "The Price of Fame Matter" (the latter featuring a rare guest-star appearance: Vincent Price).

Each story was recounted in flashback, as Johnny listed each line item from his expense account. Most of the items related to transportation and lodging, but no incidental expense was too small for Johnny to itemize, as in "Item nine, 10 cents. Aspirin. I needed them." Johnny usually stuck to business, but would engage in romantic dalliances with women he encountered in his travels; later episodes gave Johnny a steady girlfriend, Betty Lewis. Johnny's precious recreational time was usually spent fishing, and it was not uncommon for Johnny's clients to exploit this favorite pastime in convincing him to take on a job. The episodes generally finished with Johnny tallying up his account, making final remarks on the report, and traveling back to Hartford, Connecticut, where he was based.

Available Episodes

Episode Title Broadcast Date File Size
The Parakoff Policy Feb 18, 1949 13 MB
Milford Brooks III Dec 07, 1948 13 MB
The Parakoff Policy Feb 18, 1949 6.30 MB
The Slow Boat from China Feb 25, 1949 13 MB
Robert Perry Case Mar 04, 1949 14 MB
Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round Mar 11, 1949 13 MB
Milford Brooks III Matter Mar 25, 1949 6.47 MB
Stolen Portrait Apr 01, 1949 6.59 MB
The Case of the Hundred Thousand Dollar Legs Apr 15, 1949 6.69 MB
The Case of Barton Drake Apr 22, 1949 6.70 MB
Who Took the Taxis For A Ride Jul 24, 1949 6.70 MB
Out of the Fire into the Frying Pan Aug 21, 1949 14 MB
The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot Sep 04, 1949 14 MB
The Search for Michelle Marsh Sep 25, 1949 13 MB
The Fishing Boat Affair Oct 01, 1949 6.86 MB
The Racehorse Piledriver Matter Oct 08, 1949 6.69 MB
Dr Otto Schmedlich Oct 15, 1949 6.91 MB
How I Played Santa Claus and Almost Got Left Holding the Bag Dec 24, 1949 7.02 MB
Death Takes a Working Day Feb 03, 1950 6.90 MB
The SS Malay Trader Ship Feb 10, 1950 14 MB
The Grave Diggers Spades Feb 17, 1950 6.90 MB
The Archeologist Feb 24, 1950 6.99 MB
Bodyguard to the Late Robert W Perry Mar 03, 1950 11 MB
How I Got a Wildcat Oil Operation by the Tail, or the Youthful Millionaire Mar 07, 1950 6.76 MB
The Eighty Five Little Minks Mar 14, 1950 13 MB
The Man Who Wrote Himself to Death (Reh) Mar 21, 1950 6.22 MB
The Village Scene Matter Mar 28, 1950 13 MB
The Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse Apr 04, 1950 14 MB
The Dead First-Helpers Apr 11, 1950 14 MB
The Story of the Ten Oh Eight (Reh) Apr 18, 1950 6.30 MB
The Pearl Carrasa Matter Apr 25, 1950 6.65 MB
The Abel Tackett Matter (Reh) May 02, 1950 6.40 MB
The Harold Trandem Matter May 09, 1950 13 MB
The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Reh) May 16, 1950 13 MB
The Collegio Diamond Matter Jun 08, 1950 7.01 MB
The Arrowcraft Matter Jun 15, 1950 7.08 MB
The London Matter Jun 22, 1950 13 MB
Blood River Matter Aug 03, 1950 6.59 MB
The Hartford Alliance Matter Aug 10, 1950 6.48 MB
The Mickey McQueen Matter Aug 17, 1950 6.46 MB
The Trans-Pacific Export Matter, South China Branch Aug 24, 1950 14 MB
The Trans-Pacific Export Matter, South China Branch Aug 24, 1950 5.92 MB
The Virginia Beach Matter Aug 31, 1950 14 MB
The Howard Caldwell Matter Sep 30, 1950 6.62 MB
The Richard Splain Matter Oct 07, 1950 6.65 MB
The Yankee Pride Matter Oct 14, 1950 13 MB
The Jack Madigan Matter Oct 21, 1950 13 MB
The Joan Sebastian Matter Oct 28, 1950 14 MB
The Queen Anne Pistols Matter Nov 04, 1950 6.89 MB
The Nora Faulkner Matter Nov 18, 1950 6.93 MB
The Adam Kegg Matter Nov 11, 1950 6.58 MB
The Woodward Manila Matter Nov 25, 1950 6.93 MB
The Jackie Cleaver Matter Dec 09, 1950 6.99 MB
The Leland Blackburn Matter Dec 16, 1950 13 MB
The David Rocky Matter Jan 20, 1951 6.93 MB
The Leland Blackburn Matter Dec 16, 1950 6.46 MB
The Jarvis Wilder Matter Feb 24, 1951 13 MB
The Celia Woodstock Matter Mar 03, 1951 13 MB
The Byron Hayes Matter Mar 24, 1951 6.87 MB
The Stanley Springs Matter Mar 10, 1951 13 MB
The Mickey McQueen Matter Apr 14, 1951 5.81 MB
The Edward French Matter Apr 07, 1951 5.81 MB
The Willard South Matter Apr 21, 1951 5.81 MB
The Virginia Towne Matter (Reh) Apr 25, 1951 5.04 MB
The Month-End Raid Matter Apr 28, 1951 5.80 MB
The Virginia Towne Matter May 05, 1951 8.69 MB
The Lillis Bond Matter (Reh) May 26, 1951 6.83 MB
The Soderbury, Maine Matter (Reh) Jun 02, 1951 5.39 MB
The George Farmer Matter Jun 09, 1951 5.77 MB
The Arthur Boldrick Matter Jun 16, 1951 5.73 MB
The Malcolm Wish, Maryland Matter Jun 20, 1951 6.93 MB
The Hatchet House Theft Matter Jun 27, 1951 6.96 MB
The Alonzo Chapman Matter Jul 04, 1951 13 MB
The Fairway Matter Jul 11, 1951 6.91 MB
The Horace Lockhart Matter Aug 01, 1951 13 MB
The Cumberland Theft Matter Aug 22, 1951 8.37 MB
The Cuban Jewel Matter Sep 19, 1951 6.99 MB
The Protection Matter Sep 26, 1951 13 MB
The Douglas Taylor Matter Oct 06, 1951 13 MB
The Millard Ward Matter Oct 13, 1951 6.34 MB
The Tolhurst Theft Matter Oct 27, 1951 13 MB
The Birdy Baskerville Matter Nov 10, 1951 12 MB
The Merrill Kent Matter Nov 17, 1951 10 MB
The Youngstown Credit Group Matter Dec 08, 1951 6.97 MB
The Glen English Matter Jan 05, 1952 6.29 MB
The Alma Scott Matter Dec 29, 1951 13 MB
The Amelia Harwell Matter Jul 02, 1952 13 MB
The Trans-Pacific Matter (First Half) (Audition) Nov 24, 1952 7.41 MB
The Singapore Arson Matter Nov 28, 1952 6.90 MB
The James Clayton Matter Dec 05, 1952 14 MB
The Hannibal Murphy Matter Nov 03, 1951 13 MB
The Elliott Champion Matter Dec 12, 1952 6.75 MB
The Walter Patterson Matter Dec 26, 1952 6.29 MB
The Baltimore Matter Jan 02, 1953 6.29 MB
The Thelma Ibsen Matter Jan 09, 1953 6.61 MB
The Starlet Matter Jan 16, 1953 6.61 MB
The Marigold Matter Jan 23, 1953 6.70 MB
Kay Bellamy Matter Jan 30, 1953 10 MB
The Chicago Fraud Matter Feb 06, 1953 14 MB
The Latourette Matter Feb 20, 1953 6.56 MB
The Syndicate Matter Mar 24, 1953 13 MB
The Lester James Matter (no ending) Mar 31, 1953 5.70 MB
The Enoch Arden Matter Apr 07, 1953 6.95 MB
The Madison Matter Apr 14, 1953 7.10 MB
The Dameron Matter Apr 21, 1953 6.54 MB
The Nelson Matter(AFRS) Aug 25, 1953 6.79 MB
The Gino Gambona Matter (AFRS) Nov 03, 1953 6.40 MB
The Barton Baker Matter (AFRS) Dec 08, 1953 13 MB
The Beauregard Matter (AFRS) Jan 26, 1954 13 MB
The Classified Killer Matter (AFRS) Feb 23, 1954 6.34 MB
The Berlin Matter (AFRS) Mar 16, 1954 6.27 MB
The Frustrated Phoenix Matter (AFRS) Apr 27, 1954 6.23 MB
The Patterson Transport Matter (AFRS) Jun 15, 1954 6.71 MB
The Hampton Line Matter (AFRS) Aug 03, 1954 7.11 MB
The McCormack Matter - Episode 4 Oct 06, 1955 14 MB
The Molly K Matter - Episode 5 Oct 14, 1955 14 MB
The Chesapeake Fraud Matter - Episode 5 Oct 21, 1955 3.38 MB
The Broderick Matter - Episode 2 Nov 15, 1955 14 MB
The Broderick Matter - Episode 4 Nov 17, 1955 14 MB
The Amy Bradshaw Matter - Episode 2 Nov 22, 1955 3.38 MB
The Henderson Matter - Episode 3 Nov 30, 1955 6.97 MB
The Cronin Matter - Episode 1 Dec 05, 1955 3.38 MB
The Lansing Fraud Matter - Episode 1 Dec 12, 1955 8.41 MB
The Lansing Fraud Matter - Episode 3 Dec 14, 1955 8.34 MB
The Nick Shurn Matter - Episode 3 Dec 21, 1955 8.43 MB