First heard about network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Money chronicled the escapades of freelanceinsurance investigator Johnny Buck, “the person using the action-packed expenseaccount.” For fourteen years it had been oneof typically the most popular detective displays over the air flow, lasting before final days ofnetwork radio theatre in 1962. Each story started using a telephone call from aninsurance professional contacting Johnny Dollar to research an unusual declare.His investigations usually required him to travel about Yours Truly, Johnny Buck, Quantity 1 to distant locales and ofteninvolved murder. The stories were recounted in flashback, as Buck outlined eachline item from his expense accounts: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare to the airport.”

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

Shows include “The McCormack Matter,” “The Molly K Matter,” “The Chesapeake Scams Matter,” “The Alvin Summers Matter,” “The Valentine Matter” and “The Lorcoe Gemstone Matter.”