First heard about network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the travels of freelanceinsurance investigator Johnny Dollar, “the person using the action-packed expenseaccount.” For fourteen years it was oneof typically the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting before final times ofnetwork radio episode in 1962. Each tale started using a phone call from aninsurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim.His investigations usually required him to travel about Yours Truly, Johnny Money, Vol. 2 to distant locales and ofteninvolved murder. The stories were recounted in flashback, as Dollar shown eachline item from his expenditure account: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare towards the airport.”

Over time, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar,including Charles Russell, John Lund, and Edmund O’Brien. However in 1955 BobBailey got over as the series was switching to a fresh powerful format ofseventy-five-minute storylines told in five fifteen-minute installments, Mondaythrough Fri. While various other radio shows had been waning in the mid-1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Money was at itspeak. Professionals place these travels in with the best of the best of radio’sgolden age. This collection contains thirty fifteen-minute episodes.

Shows include “The Broderick Matter,” “The Amy Bradshaw Matter,” “The Henderson Matter,” “The Cronin Matter,” “The Lansing Fraud Matter” and “The Nick Shurn Matter.”