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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar followed the exploits of a freelance insurance investigator with "the action-packed expense account," a hardboiled detective drama that ran from 1949 to 1962. This collection captures the show's final chapter, 1961 to 1962, when Mandel Kramer stepped into the title role as the last actor to play Johnny Dollar before radio drama itself gave way to television. Each episode unfolds as an itemized expense report narrated by Johnny himself, tallying cab fares and hotel…
Episodes
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)The Simi Valley Firebug
Aired: Feb 11th, 1962. Johnny Dollar heads to booming Simi Valley, where a string of suspicious brush fires is costing the Greater Southwest Insurance Company…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Nugget of Truth Matter
Aired: Feb 4th, 1962. Johnny Dollar gets set up on a blind date by an old insurance colleague, only to discover the stunning Pandora Peters is very much…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Can't Be So Matter
Aired: Jan 28th, 1962. When a wealthy playboy with a shady past turns up dead in his Hartford apartment, Johnny Dollar's routine claims investigation collides…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Terrible Torch Matter
Aired: Jan 21st, 1962. New Jersey Fire and Casualty sends Johnny Dollar to the sleepy town of Woodbine, where a cluster of struggling factories has started…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Hot Chocolate Matter
Aired: Jan 7th, 1962. A jewelry showroom is cleaned out of over a hundred thousand dollars in gems, and the night watchman is left fighting for his life…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The One Too Many Matter
Aired: Dec 31st, 1961. As New Year's Eve revelers crowd the streets, Johnny Dollar's quiet plans for a peaceful evening are interrupted by his insurance boss…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Phony Phone Matter
Aired: Dec 17th, 1961. Johnny Dollar just wants to collect a paycheck and get on with his Christmas shopping, but a cryptic urgent message pulls him into the…
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)The Ike And Mike Matter
Aired: Mar 18th, 1962. A Corpus Christi insurance man's frantic phone call pulls Johnny Dollar into a tangled case of a $25,000 double-indemnity policy, a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Golden Dream Matter
Aired: Mar 11th, 1962. Johnny Dollar heads into the Arizona desert to look into a missing mining engineer who'd been sent to check out a suspicious gold-stock…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Top Secret Matter
Aired: Mar 4th, 1962. Johnny Dollar heads to the rocky cliffs south of Big Sur to investigate a string of massive, costly explosions rocking the Baskum…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Mixed Blessing Matter
Aired: Feb 25th, 1962. Johnny Dollar heads west for a promised fishing vacation at Lake Mojave, only to get roped into a simple errand: deliver $40,000 in cash…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Vickershein Evidence
Aired: Feb 18th, 1962. Fresh off saving a Treasury man's life and recovering from amnesia, Johnny Dollar realizes the incriminating evidence from that case has…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Cinder Elmer Matter
Aired: Dec 3rd, 1961. Johnny Dollar trades a cold Connecticut winter for what he's promised will be sunny Southern California, only to find himself sent…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Mad Bomber Matter
Aired: Nov 26th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to the tiny oil town of Muddy Gap, Wyoming, where a wounded, embittered veteran-turned-demolitions-expert has vowed…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Guide to Murder Matter
Aired: Nov 19th, 1961. Johnny Dollar finally gets a day of fishing on the Gulf near Sarasota, guided by a salty old Cape Cod skipper piloting a boat and, on…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Wrong One Matter
Aired: Nov 12th, 1961. Johnny trades cold New England for the Florida sun when his old army buddy Earl Corman, laid up with a broken ankle, hands him an odd…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Monticello Mystery Matter
Aired: Nov 5th, 1961. Johnny Dollar is summoned to a secluded, lake-front hunting lodge in the Catskills at the personal insistence of Rudy Techler, husband of…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Slip-and-Fall Racket
Aired: Oct 29th, 1961. Johnny Dollar meets Pat Fuller, the new man at Universal Adjustment Bureau, who's uncovered thirteen suspiciously similar injury claims…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Three for One Matter
Aired: Oct 22nd, 1961. A wealthy retired investor vanishes from his New Hampshire lakeside home the night after threatening a lawsuit that could ruin him…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Medium Rare Matter
Aired: Oct 8th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to Corpus Christi, Texas, to investigate a self-proclaimed psychic named Yogi Vishnu, whose seances are draining…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Chuckanut Matter
Aired: Jul 23rd, 1961. An insurance man's hunch sends Johnny Dollar racing to the misty roads outside Bellingham, Washington, where a wealthy husband's fourth…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Double-Barreled Matter
Aired: Sep 24th, 1961. Johnny Dollar flies out to sunny San Diego to look into a bizarre string of burglaries plaguing a wealthy couple's cottage — seven…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Vanishing Antiquarian
Aired: Sep 10th, 1961. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar heads to fog-shrouded San Francisco to track down a quarter-million-dollar mystery: the…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The All-Wet Matter: A Package for Ramseyville
Aired: Sep 3rd, 1961. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar flies south to a genteel old South Carolina plantation town after a wealthy widow receives a…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Million-Dollar Jewel Box
Aired: Aug 20th, 1961. Johnny Dollar takes on a favor for claims man Freddie Fricton, heading to a Newport-style mansion to check up on a million-dollar…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
A House Call for Johnny Dollar
Aired: Aug 13th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to the Gulf Coast port of Corpus Christi, where an old friend's tip pulls him into a case far more dangerous than…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Secret at Melcher Laboratories
Aired: Jul 30th, 1961. A cryptic summons pulls Johnny Dollar down to Meridian, Mississippi, where a government research lab's top-secret trouble awaits — but…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Fiddle Faddle Matter
Aired: Jul 9th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to sunny Sarasota, Florida, at the request of an old insurance-agency friend, only to land in the middle of a bizarre…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Well of Trouble Matter
Aired: Jul 2nd, 1961. Johnny Dollar barely has time to enjoy a surprise $1,000 windfall before a stack of freshly laundered, starched, and ironed cash sets off…
- Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)
The Imperfect Crime Matter
Aired: Jun 25th, 1961. A wealthy heiress hires Johnny Dollar after realizing her celebrated mystery-novelist husband has outlived four previous wives, each…
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — Mandel Kramer Era (1961–1962)The Low Tide Matter
Aired: Jun 18th, 1961. A stingy insurance company makes Johnny Dollar an offer he can't refuse — a case that requires a fisherman. Two business partners locked…