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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 120460, episode 717 - The Earned Income Matter (AFRS)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Jacab R Singer

Fiction, Society & Culture, Drama

5.02.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a standard private investigator drama.

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0:00.0

Johnny Dollar.

0:04.3

Toby Tendrick, Johnny, over here at Northeastern Tennery. Well, good for you, Toby. Now, what's that supposed to mean? Just that I always have liked, the nice big fees at that company of yours hands out on cases. It just happens that I can use one of them right now, but running a little short. And I don't get excited, Johnny. Now, what is it this time? Murder, arson, embezzlement? Well, it's...

0:21.3

Come on, come on, Toby, what is it?

0:23.2

Well, as a matter of what is it this time? Murder, arson, embezzlement? Well, it's...

0:21.4

Come on, come on, Toby, what is it?

0:23.2

Well, it's a matter of fact, it's a robbery.

0:25.0

Well, fine, fine.

0:26.2

If I'm lucky, if I latch onto the loot, whatever it is, I'll collect my usual commission and be loaded again. So tell me all. Now, what's the amount of the loss, huh?

0:33.9

Well, that's the trouble.

0:35.1

It's only $5,000.

0:37.3

$5,000.

0:38.4

Cash.

0:40.0

What if it's only $5,000. $5,000? Cash. What, it was only... Are you kidding me, I hope? Nope. Sorry. That's the full amount. Oh, now look, Toby, that doesn't make sense. Robbery never makes sense. Well, how much of a commission can I possibly pick up on a loss of only 5Gs? Now, I don't mean to sound money-hungry. Well, of course I really am. But look at it this way. If I tie myself up with this piddling little case, I might have to pass up something really lucrative. Listen, Johnny, it happened right here in Hartford. And it just happened. From what little I know about the circumstances, it ought to be a lead pipe cinch for you. Oh, sure, they all are. Yeah, but if you're not tied up with anything else at the moment,

1:14.6

Oh, sure, they all are.

1:11.7

Yeah, but if you're not tied up with anything else at the moment,

1:14.6

oh, come on.

1:15.3

At least take a cab on over here and talk about it, huh?

1:18.0

Okay, Toby, just to keep you happy.

1:31.7

The CBS Radio Network brings you Bob Reddick in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

1:35.1

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

1:37.7

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

1:49.9

No. Expense account Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar

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