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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The McClain Matter, Episodes Four and Five (EP4105)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Drama

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: Johnny closes in on a doctor who is accused of faking his wife's death to collect her insurance.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 9 and 10, 1956

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar, Lucille Meredith, Betty Lou Gerson, John Stephenson, Bob Bruce, Vic Perrin, Tony Barrett, Herb Ellis

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0:00.0

Welcome to the great

0:29.7

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

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detectives of old-time radio t-shirts. We have four designs including our

1:04.7

standard design and our yours truly Johnny Dollar anniversary t-shirt, which you

1:09.8

can find over at tshirt.greatdetectives.net. We continue our celebration of

1:17.2

Bob Bailey's 110th birthday with the conclusion of the McLean matter. Now the

1:23.7

McLean matter is the first of four cereals where we have a missing episode to

1:29.4

deal with. In this case the missing episode falls right in the middle of the

1:35.5

cereal. Now John Abbott in his book The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter includes a

1:41.7

summary of episode three based on looking at the script. And it says that the

1:49.0

episode began with Vic Wade calling Johnny. And I assume that Vic Wade was with

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the Los Angeles Police Department. And Wade shows him a statement from a guy

2:01.6

named George Riley who was the boyfriend of Teresa Corbett. Riley tells Johnny

2:09.5

that he's been being followed by police. Look at as someone who they suspect

2:16.1

has been involved in Teresa's disappearance. Johnny tells Riley that Teresa is

2:23.4

dead and buried in Los Angeles. When Johnny goes back to the police and to

2:29.6

Vic Wade, Wade advises that the police were not aware of Teresa's heart

2:34.6

condition. And apparently the LAPD had been able to check phone records and they

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