Welcome to the great

detectives of old-time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If

you have a comment, email it to me, box13 at greatdetectives.net. Follow us on

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favorite podcast software. Well, typically on the great detectives of old-time

radio, we bring you a different detective program every day of the week, Monday

through Saturday. This week we're putting that lineup on hold to celebrate a

fine actor who to so many listeners is the epitome of a radio detective and

that is Bob Bailey. Bob Bailey is the best loved of the six actors who played

Johnny Dollar. In a time when radio was in decline, he took over a role that had

been off the air and put in five years of memorable performances and earned

many admirers for his work from people who listened to radio drama in the

late fifties, but hadn't any experience with the lot of private detective

programs in the late forties and early fifties to those who heard Johnny Dollar

reruns overseas on the stations of the Armed Forces radio and television

service into the 1960s and 70s as well as those who discovered Johnny Dollar in

the information age and banished through the hundreds of episodes that for the

first time became accessible to anyone to work their way through the entirety of

his massive run. In fact, looking at the massive catalog of the great detectives

of old-time radio, no single actor appeared as the lead in a detective series in

more episodes than Bob Bailey did as Johnny Dollar. Yet that's not the entirety

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