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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.456 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Yankee Pride Matter

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 33 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 Y...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostolgent Mystery Radio.

0:21.5

I'm your host Stevie K.

0:23.4

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

0:26.9

This episode I bring you, yours truly Johnny Dollar, episode titled, The Yankee Pride Matter, originally aired October 14th, 1950,

0:43.1

where Johnny investigates murder, intrigue, and sabotage in mysterious Singapore.

0:50.4

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

1:07.0

Thank you for listening. From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as... Johnny Dahlia. This is Carl Bush, Johnny. Yeah, Carl, what's new? We've currently got a marine insurance headache down here. I don't know if you're interested, but your commission would be fat. I called you because I had a feeling you know Singapore. Is that right? Yeah, I've been there on a case, and it'll have to be a fat commission to get me back there. The policy is for $300,000.

1:28.7

It covers a cargo that's being delayed out there, a time clause.

1:32.3

What reason do you have so far?

1:34.3

Mechanical trouble on the ship.

1:35.9

One breakdown after another.

1:37.8

Accidental, sabotage, or both?

1:39.6

That's what we want to learn.

1:41.4

Come on down after lunch and talk it over.

1:49.3

Music what we want to learn. Come on down after lunch and talk it over. Edmund O'Brien,

1:50.4

in another adventure of the man

1:51.7

with the action-packed expense account,

1:53.8

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

1:56.6

Yours truly Johnny Dollar.

2:09.9

So... Yours truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Tri-State Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

2:16.3

The following is an accounting of expenditures

2:18.1

during my investigation of the Yankee Pride Matter. Expense account item one, a dollar and a half

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