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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Date with Death Matter (EP4930)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: A desperate criminal is gunning for Johnny after failing to kill him last week.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 8, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Lucille Meredith, James McCallion, Russ Thorson, Sam Edwards, Herb Vigran

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

0:36.3

This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we are going to bring you

0:41.6

this week's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. But if you are enjoying this podcast, I want

0:48.4

to encourage you to follow us using your favorite podcast software. And our listener support campaign continues,

0:56.0

you can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters

0:59.1

for as little as $2 per month at patreon.orgatedetectives.net.

1:05.6

Now, in between last week's episode and this week's,

1:09.0

there was a lost episode,

1:13.6

and this is usually more of just a bookkeeping matter but the lost episode that's missing may be one of the more significant ones

1:22.4

in the bob bailey era as that and this one, was one of those interconnected episodes.

1:33.1

It's not a story where it won't stand on its own, but it can be helpful to have heard the

1:40.7

previous story. Now, from the character angle, it also included the introduction of an ongoing character who

1:50.1

would be in the series for the rest of the Bailey run, and Betty Lois, who is a girlfriend

1:57.2

of Johnny, a relationship that became an element of a bit of a tease for listeners,

2:03.2

although not too much. And she's in this story as well, so it wouldn't be great if we could

2:09.0

bring you the curly waters matter. But we can't, but there's enough context in this story to

2:15.6

understand what happened, at least as is relevant to this episode.

2:20.6

And of course, we have John Abbott's notes on the script for that story, which will allow us to fill in some details when we get to the post-episode commentary. But now, from

2:35.8

February 8, 1959, here is the date with death matter. From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Dollar.

3:02.9

Betty Lewis.

3:04.1

Hey, it works.

3:05.3

Sure it does.

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