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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.350 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Earl Chadwick Matter

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar For over twelve years, from 1949 through 1962 (including a one year hiatus in 1954-1955), this series recounted the cases "the man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Johnny was an accomplished 'padder' of his expense account. The name of the show derives from the fact that he closed each show by totaling his expense account, and signing it "End of report... Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar". The Ea...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgamic Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.

0:23.4

And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

0:26.8

For this episode, I bring you, yours truly Johnny Dollar, episode titled, The Earl Chadwick Matter,

0:34.5

originally aired May 23, 1950, where Johnny flies to Bermuda to find out if a dead man

0:42.1

really is. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

0:50.1

Thank you for listening.

1:04.0

From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as...

1:06.4

Johnny Dollar.

1:09.1

The Ambassador Travel Agency calling back, Mr. Dollar.

1:09.6

Oh, yeah.

1:27.7

Your reservation for Bermuda is just being confirmed. Pan American flight number 134. You'll leave LaGuardia at 10.30 a.m. arrived in Kindley Field, Bermuda, 2.30 p.m. Got it? We'll send the tickets right over. It's been a pleasure to serve you, sir, and I hope you have an enjoyable stay in Bermuda. Is it a vacation? Well, hardly.

1:30.9

I'm going down there to look up a dead man.

1:42.6

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

1:45.7

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

1:47.6

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

2:04.8

Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Tri-State life insurance company, attention Leland Scarf, Chief Adjuster.

2:09.9

The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the Earl Chadwick matter.

2:14.2

Expense account item one, a dollar 80, cab fare to your Hartford office.

2:18.2

A man has been seen alive, Dalla.

2:20.4

I never was satisfied that he was dead.

2:24.0

His boat, a small cruiser, was found wrecked, you know, but never a body.

2:25.1

How long ago was that?

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