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Facebook.com slash Radio Detactives. Today we're going to bring you an episode of yours truly,

Johnny Dollar, dated January 5th, 1952.

And it will be the Glenn English matter.

This would actually be the second to last episode before Johnny Dollar was canceled in 1952.

Newspaper accounts of the time, as a matter-factly mentioned that it was going off the air without a specific reason given.

However, a 2018 book by Derek Skullthorpe, Edmund O'Brien, Every Man of Film Noir, notes that while O'Brien liked the role, he did get bored playing one character

all the time. That may have been the reason why it did go off the air. Newspapers mentioned

that CBS was hopeful that there might be a yours truly Johnny Dollar television program. Starring

O'Brien, according to the newspaper reports,

networks liked what they had seen of O'Brien on television.

He'd made a very good impression in two appearances on the Lox video theater.

According to an interview in 1952,

he said that Gil Dowd, who had been an early writer on the series, wrote the scripts in such a way that they could easily be taken and used for television.

O'Brien ultimately decided not to do the television show, saying that there's no percentage in doing someone

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