BONUS - Dollar Days: The Alvin Summers Matter
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Our bonus series spotlighting the serialized adventures of Johnny Dollar continues! In “The Alvin Summers Matter” (originally aired on CBS between October 24 and 28, 1955), the man with the action-packed expense account is in Mexico to track down an embezzler who fled the United States with his loot. But Johnny isn’t there long before he’s pistol whipped and discovers a corpse in his hotel room. Bob Bailey stars as Dollar in this story set south of the border.
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. |
| 0:02.1 | Crime is a sucker's road. |
| 0:03.9 | And those who travel |
| 0:04.6 | it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:12.3 | The story you were about to hear is true. |
| 0:15.2 | Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.6 | The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective. |
| 0:21.7 | The Adventures of the Saints, |
| 0:23.5 | starring Vincent Price. |
| 0:25.5 | Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures |
| 0:27.7 | of the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator... |
| 0:33.4 | Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. |
| 1:08.3 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello, and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets, where we're continuing our spotlight series on the serialized run of yours truly Johnny Dollar. |
| 1:13.3 | These are the five-part storylines that aired from 1955 to 1956 and that stand out as some of the best radio drama produced during the Golden Age. |
| 1:20.7 | Today we're catching up with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator in the Alvin |
| 1:26.5 | Summers Matter. Originally aired on CBS between Monday, |
| 1:31.2 | October 24th, and Friday, October 28, 1955. |
| 1:36.6 | This marks the first international adventure of the serialized run. As Johnny's case brings him to the |
| 1:43.9 | sound of Santa Tomas, Mexico. He's on the trail of the titized run. As Johnny's case brings him to the sound of Santa Tomas, Mexico. |
| 1:46.4 | He's on the trail of the titular Mr. Summers, |
| 1:49.4 | an embezzler who fled the United States with $50,000, |
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