Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ugly Pattern Matter (EP4820)

The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Fiction, Arts, Drama

4.6 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's Mystery: Johnny is called in when three members of the board of a small company covered by a group life policy are murdered in a short period of time.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1958

Originated from Hollywood

Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar. Virginia Gregg, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, Herb Vigran, Junius Matthews, Frank Gerstle

When making your travel plans, remember http://johnnydollarair.com

Become one of our Patreon Supporters at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net

Thank you to our Patreon Supporter of the Day: Philip, Patreon supporter since June 2023

Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net

Give us a call 208-991-4783Become one of our friends on Facebook.

Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio from Boise, Idaho.
0:35.6	This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you
0:39.2	this week's episode of yours truly Johnny Dollar. But first, I do want to encourage you,
0:44.4	if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And I also
0:51.7	want to encourage you as you are making your travel plans, remember Johnny Dollarair.com.
0:57.6	Johnny Dollar.air.com is a price line affiliate link, so part of your purchase price supports the great detectives of old time radio at no additional cost to use.
1:06.7	So remember, when making your travel plans check Johnny Dollar Air.com first.
1:11.7	Now from June 29, 1958, here is the Ugly Pattern Matter.
1:20.4	From Hollywood, it's time now, Paul.
1:26.9	Johnny Dollar. This is Barry Winters at Masters Insurance and Trust. Oh, hi, Barry. It's been years. Sure, Johnny. Because we don't usually have trouble with our accounts. You mean you didn't? Huh? Until now. Well, yeah, I'm afraid that's about the size of it. And this time it's bad trouble. Tell me all. Simplex tackle company, Johnny, over in Danbury. Fishing tackle? That's right. Oh, how come I never heard of them? Well, they're a small outfit, a kind of glorified partnership. What's that mean? It's owned by nine men. One of them, Hanley Thomas, is president. The others are secretary, treasurer, and a flock of vice president. So what's happened?
2:01.6	Well, the nine of them, plus the 20 or 30 workers at the plant, are all covered by a group
2:06.7	life insurance deal. And listen...
2:08.7	Yeah?
2:09.3	We've just had to pay off on three policies in a row.
2:12.2	Well, that's too bad, but why call on me?
2:14.3	Because, Johnny.
2:15.1	Why?
2:15.7	Those three deaths were all murders.
2:25.6	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account,
2:29.8	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators.
2:32.3	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
2:47.6	Yeah. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Adam Graham, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Adam Graham and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.