The Hallmark Playhouse, which is heard during most of the year at this time on Thursdays, has finished its summer vacation.

So, be with us when Hallmark Playhouse returns to CBS a week from tonight on September the 7th.

Now, from Hollywood, it's time for Edmund O'Brien as...

Johnny Dollar.

Carl. Carl? Carl Bruster down at East Coast.

Yes, Carl.

I wonder if you do a little job for us.

Sure, what is it?

A policyholder of ours needs some protection.

Well, I hope this doesn't indicate a trend.

This is the second time an insurance company has hired me as a bodyguard.

Isn't that rather unusual?

Well, it's rather an unusual case.

This girl, her fiancé, has spent the past five years in prison.

He's being released tomorrow, and he swears that the first thing he's going to do is kill her.

That's cozy.

I think she deserves some help.

Come on down this afternoon, we'll talk it over.

Edmund O'Brien, in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account,

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to home office, East Coast underwriters, Hartford, Connecticut, detention, Carl Brewster.

The following is an accounting of my expenditures during assignment on the Virginia Beach matter.

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