Shows / Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was radio's premier detective series about "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" — the man with the action-packed expense account — who traveled coast to coast untangling frauds, murders, and cons for whichever company was footing the bill. This collection captures the John Lund era, when Lund took over the role from November 1952 to September 1954, bringing his own leading-man polish to a part that had already made the character a household name. Each…
Episodes
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)The Costain Matter
Aired: Jun 2nd, 1953. A wave of high-end shoplifting has hit Toledo's finest boutiques, and federal insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called in to sort…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Case of the Vanishing Broker
Aired: May 26th, 1953. When bonding broker Q. Bridge Bain vanishes without a trace, freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar races a police court order…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Emily Braddock Matter
Aired: May 19th, 1953. A stunningly beautiful con artist has been sweeping up the California coast, charming hotel managers into rooms full of champagne and…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Rochester Theft Matter
Aired: May 12th, 1953. A stolen mink coat resurfaces six months after the Jacobi robbery — this time draped over an unconscious woman found shot twice on a New…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Blackmail Matter
Aired: May 5th, 1953. A day at Dale Martin's downtown gym turns deadly when club regular Frederick Royal is found with a broken neck in the rubdown room…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The San Antonio Matter
Aired: Apr 28th, 1953. A retired bootlegger who spent his golden years painting canvases and listening to symphonies is gunned down in his St. Petersburg home…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Dameron Matter
Aired: Apr 21st, 1953. Johnny Dollar races to San Francisco to investigate a brutal savings and loan heist that leaves a night watchman dead. When police…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Shayne Bombing Matter
Aired: Jul 14th, 1953. Johnny Dollar heads to New York to investigate a mail bomb that killed factory foreman David Shayne — and the police already have a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Jones Matter: Vegas, Diamonds, and a Vanishing Necklace
Aired: Jun 30th, 1953. Johnny Dollar heads to the glittering Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas to investigate the theft of a $30,000 diamond necklace belonging to…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Half-Million Dollar Target
Aired: Jun 23rd, 1953. When someone takes a shot at cantankerous industrialist Jonathan Bellows, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to protect a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Girl Who Ran: The Emil Carter Matter
Aired: Jun 16th, 1953. Johnny Dollar flies to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of policyholder Emil Carter, only to get a call from the frightened girl…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Oklahoma Red Matter
Aired: Jun 9th, 1953. Johnny Dollar heads to the bluegrass horse country outside Lexington, Kentucky, to investigate a staggering $65,000 death claim on a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Madison Matter
Aired: Apr 14th, 1953. A woman walks into the International Insurance offices claiming to be a policyholder who's already legally dead, sending Johnny Dollar…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Enoch Arden Matter
Aired: Apr 7th, 1953. A missing husband declared legally dead means a quarter-million-dollar payout for Hemispheric Life — until a Boston nurse swears she…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Lester James Matter
Aired: Mar 31st, 1953. A bookkeeper in a New York textile firm has already confessed to embezzling $4,185 — but he won't say what he spent it on, and Johnny…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Tupelo Oil Patch Murders
Aired: Mar 24th, 1953. Four insured oil workers are dead within weeks of each other in the boomtown of Tupelo, Texas, each beaten to death and each leaving…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The King's Necklace Matter
Aired: Mar 17th, 1953. Johnny Dollar flies to a private island off Cuba to investigate a wealthy recluse's claim that thieves tried to crack his safe for a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Jeanne Maxwell Matter: Death on the Boston Road
Aired: Mar 6th, 1953. Johnny Dollar heads to Boston to investigate the death of Jeanne Maxwell, a young woman found drowned beneath a lonely bridge four miles…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Underwood Matter
Aired: Feb 27th, 1953. Johnny Dollar heads to Rexford, Wyoming to sit in on a coroner's inquest after a wealthy client plunges four stories to his death from a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Latourette Matter
Aired: Feb 20th, 1953. A Denver bookstore fire that killed Frank Latourette's wife seemed like an open-and-shut arson claim, until Johnny Dollar's predecessor…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Man Who Starved with $50,000 in the Bank
Aired: Feb 6th, 1953. A Chicago insurance claim turns strange when Johnny Dollar learns the deceased—fully insured for $50,000—died of slow starvation despite…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Kay Bellamy Matter: Songbird by Day, Stripper by Night
Aired: Jan 30th, 1953. Johnny Dollar is hired to look into a two-million-dollar insurance policy on radio singer Kay Bellamy, whose agent can't explain the…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Marigold Matter
Aired: Jan 23rd, 1953. When Johnny Dollar's old contact Joe Hickey is found shot dead in a quiet Connecticut village, a letter arriving after Hickey's death…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Starlet Matter
Aired: Jan 16th, 1953. Johnny Dollar jets to Hollywood on a rush call from a frantic talent agent whose rising starlet has been getting death threats — only to…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Thelma Ibsen Matter
Aired: Jan 9th, 1953. A dying wish sends Johnny Dollar chasing down the long-lost beneficiary of an old newsstand vendor's life insurance policy: a young woman…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Baltimore Matter
Aired: Jan 2nd, 1953. An ex-con with seven years behind him shows up on Johnny Dollar's doorstep with a stolen bill, a hard-luck story, and a tip about the…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Man Who Was Already Dead
Aired: Dec 26th, 1952. A Delaware insurance company paid out a hefty double-indemnity claim on Walter Patterson back in '47, no body, no complications, case…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Elliott Champion Matter
Aired: Dec 12th, 1952. Johnny Dollar flies to Los Angeles to investigate the suspicious fire that gutted a half-million-dollar office building — one completed…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Doctor's Loaded Alibi
Aired: Dec 5th, 1952. Johnny Dollar reluctantly minds a colleague's New York office and lands right in the middle of a doctor's panicked, gun-waving…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)
The Trans-Pacific Matter: Death at Repulse Bay
Aired: Nov 28th, 1952. Johnny Dollar's Hong Kong investigation turns personal when a woman connected to him is murdered by mistake, and the trail leads to a…
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — John Lund Era (1952–1954)The Trans-Pacific Matter, Part A: Fire in Hong Kong
Aired: Nov 24th, 1952. Johnny Dollar takes on a case he'd rather refuse: a $200,000 fire claim from the Trans-Pacific Import Export Company in Hong Kong — the…