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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Star of Capetown Matter, Episode One and Two (EP4246)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Capetown by a nervous insurance company to help protect a diamond owned by an eccentric and careless playboy.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: July 16 and 17, 1956

Originated from HollywoodStarring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Jeanne Tatum; Virginia Gregg; Harry Bartell; Chester Stratton; Marvin Miller; D. J. Thompson; Tom Hanley; Ray Kemper

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The The Welcome to the great detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise Idaho, this is your host Adam Graham.

0:37.8

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podcast software and I want to encourage you to check out our other

1:00.7

podcast and I'm highlighting our newest effort, the old time radio snack wagon.

1:06.6

You can go to snack wagon.net. And with the old time radio snack wagon each week, we bring you a short snack size bit of old time radio it can

1:18.1

be a short form program or it can be a self-contained excerpt of a longer show.

1:25.0

And really this is a program that was born of my desire to share some of the really neat little gems out there and we've included

1:36.2

programs that have famous stars like Jimmy Stewart and W.C. Fields as as well as those that are a lot more obscure like, do you know, Maine?

1:48.0

And it's just a nice short piece of entertainment.

1:51.0

You can play on a quick drive or while doing your dishes.

1:55.0

Just, you know, if you don't have a lot of dishes, I guess.

1:58.6

Check it out at snack wagon.net.

2:01.0

While we're going to get into this week's yours toly Johnny Dollar cereal, now as always, if you would rather listen to all five episodes of the cereal together, then you can pause the

2:14.0

podcast now and then come back on Friday when all five

2:17.5

episodes are available. But now, on July 6th and 17th, 1956, here is the Star of Cape Town Manor episodes 1 and 2.

2:37.0

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar.

2:38.0

Johnny,

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Johnny, Tri-Eastern Indevity. Oh, Joe McNab, Johnny.

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