Listen to the adventures of that man with the action-packed account, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. From 1949-62, the freelance insurance investigator relayed his adventures to the golden age of radio listeners via his action-packed account. In one of the longest-running old-time radio mystery detective programs.
Six actors played Johnny Dollar. Currently, we're posting episodes starring Bob Bailey, the best-loved of the Johnny Dollar actors every Tuesday and Friday. However, you'll find the adventures of both previous and later Johnny Dollar actors including Charles Russell, Academy Award Winning Actor Edmond O'Brien, John Lund, Bob Readick, and Emmy-Award nominated actor Mandel Kramer. We also offer the unaired auditions of Dick Powell (Richard Diamond) and Gerald Mohr (Philip Marlowe).
We offer more than 500 golden age of radio audio drama podcasts for your listening pleasure.
Host Adam Graham is your guide, providing commentary on each episode as well as a dash of humor and responding to listener comments and feedback. This feed is part of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio and you can subscribe to the main podcast to enjoy four other detective programs each week.
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lost by a Hair Matter (EP5060)
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Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.
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Sep 11 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Chain of Death Matter (EP5055)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is summoned by his eccentric old acquaintance Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who has received a chain letter promising good fortune if he contin
Sep 4 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Bolt out of the Blue Matter (EP5050)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to the Massachusetts coast after the niece of retired sea captain Amos Weatherby reports a threat against her uncle’s life. She bel
Aug 28 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Will and the Way Matter (EP5045)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives an urgent call from his old friend Red Barrett, who insists that the will of a recently deceased friend has been altered. Although
Aug 21 28 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Frantic Fisherman Matter (EP5940)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar welcomes an excuse to visit an old friend at a Lake Mojave fishing resort, but the vacation quickly becomes an investigation when a recentl
Aug 14 26 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Only One Butt Matter (EP5035)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar accepts an unusually lucrative assignment to locate the runaway daughter of one of the insurance company's wealthiest clients. But when he
Aug 7 23 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Mei-Ling Buddha Matter (EP5030)
Today's Mystery: Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to Boston after a priceless jade statue known as the Mei-Ling Buddha is reportedly spotted for sale in a Par
Jul 31 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Life at Steak Matter (EP5025)
Today's Mystery: Johnny r is summoned by the eccentric Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who insists the matter is urgent. But when Johnny arrives, Cartwright has vanished, blood
Jul 24 26 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Sculptor Matter (EP5015)
Today's Mystery: When an insurance company begins receiving anonymous monthly payments for a $50,000 fraudulent claim, Johnny Dollar is assigned to identify the mysteriou
Jul 10 27 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Wayward Heiress Matter (EP5010)
Today's Mystery: When an old college friend asks Johnny Dollar to protect her husband from a former sweetheart she fears is bent on murder, Johnny finds himself caught in
Jul 3 30 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Big H Matter (EP5005)
Today's Mystery: After receiving a cryptic phone call from an elderly fan who fears for her life, Johnny Dollar flies to the California coast to investigate. What begins
Jun 26 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Casque of Death Matter (EP5000)
Today's Mystery: When a series of elderly bachelors and widowers vanish from small towns across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, insurance investigator Johnny Doll
Jun 19 23 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Twin Trouble Matter (EP4995)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is asked to protect a respected New Jersey stockbroker whose past involvement in a fraudulent securities scheme has made him the target of
Jun 12 24 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fatal Filet Matter (EP4990)
Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar accepts a dinner invitation from an insurance executive friend who seems troubled by something he can't quite bring himself to discuss. Whe
Jun 5 39 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Winsome Widow Matter (EP4985)
Today's Mystery:Johnny Dollar heads to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of a liquor store owner who had survived multiple robbery attempts over the years. As Johnny
May 28 31 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Cautious Celibate Matter (EP4980)
Today's Mystery: Johnny takes a nationwide dash to escape Durango Laramie Dalheart and avoid a foced marriage.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 19, 1959
Originated
May 22 31 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fair Weather Friend Matter (EP4975)
Today's Mystery: Johnny is summoned to Bum Spung, Oklahhoma by a friend of Durango Laramie's.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1959
Originated from Hollywood
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May 15 32 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Frisco Fire Matter (EP4970)
Today's Mystery: On a tip from his informant, Smokey, Johnny travels to San Francisco to investigate a fire everyone insists was an accident.
Original Radio Broadcast Da
May 8 30 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Jimmy Carter Matter (EP4965)
Today's Mystery: Johnny is called by a boy in New England who helped solve a case to report he's the only witness to a murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 29, 1
May 1 32 min
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Lake Mead Matter (EP4960)
Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to Lake Mead near Las Vegas to investigate the disappearance of an insured where foul play is suspected.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: M
Apr 24 32 min
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I have been listening to this show for almost as long as it has been available. I love the episodes, the history. I really like Adam’s commentary. He gives great back ground and framing to the episodes. Just like everyone, I have favorite shows and less favorite shows, but I appreciate what I learn from each. It’s part of the entertainment value for me. The nasty critiques of Adam’s voice are like nails on a chalkboard to me. Give me a break. I chose this podcast because of what he adds. If I only wanted the old time radio episodes without his input, I would just go elsewhere. Great job Adam!
BZ Working Mom · Jan 2025
Love Johnny Dollar! Started listening to him with my mom on car rides. Takes me back to an era long ago and a time in America when things were simple and wholesome
dmb names · Dec 2023
A great podcast. I subscribe to several podcasts that focus on ‘old time radio’ but none compares to the various offering featuring Adam Graham as the host. He carefully curates all episodes and gives such great insights and information for each show. If I had to listen to only 1 podcaster, it would be Adam Graham. You will not be disappointed. Thank you.
TJ 54321 · Jun 2023
I stumbled upon Adam’s podcast by mistake this past year and realized how few of YTJD episodes I had actually heard. I started listening to the broadcasts from 2016 and finally caught up to present day. Listening to these episodes from a bygone era reminds me of stories my grandmother used to share and makes me appreciate them all the more. Adam’s commentary took me a little while to get used to, but now I absolutely love the knowledge he has and shares. The audio quality isn’t always perfect, but each and every preserved episode is a treasure from the past.
kmtmcv · Aug 2021
The content is excellent, these are radio shows that were played (generally) in the 1950s. Sound quality of the episodes is usually great - on rare occasions they will sound a bit scratchy but the host is at the mercy of recordings made 70ish years ago so I have no issue with it. Sometimes (if we are lucky) there will be commercials that aired at the time of original broadcast. Those are fun to listen to…I don’t mind them at all.
The stories are framed with modern day narrative that puts the show into context and adds further insight into what was going on in the world at the time. I like this too. All of this adds up to potentially a five star podcast.
When I write reviews I need some way to separate the ‘five stars’ from the ‘four stars’, etc. Shows that air modern day commercials will lose a star. Seems fair to me…commercials are not bad in and of themselves but a show with commercials is ‘less than perfect’ so they always lose a star.
The /audio quality/ of the “modern narrative” is just okay or at the very least, annoying. There are constant ‘skip noises’ where it seems like audio has been cut and spliced together, even in mid sentence. The volume changes slightly, or pauses between words are longer or shorter than normal, etc. The commentary is only a few minutes long- seriously, isn’t it possible to re-record until you get it in one take?
Finally, back to the commercials. There are A LOT of commercials. I listen to many podcasts is this one has far, far more than any other I know. Then there are Patreon shout outs, and the Priceline ad read, and on an on. Thankfully you can fast forward through them easily enough but it means you need to be near your device to do so. Finally, it seems a bit…bold…to play so many commercials on 1950s content that you got for free, but whatever.
All adds up to two stars. I would prefer 2.5 stars but I’m not allowed to give halfs. Old time radio shows are available elsewhere online 24/7 for free with no commercials but you DO miss out on Adam’s framing narrative. I still subscribe, I just keep my phone handy to fast forward through all the ads.
_Jabberwock · Apr 2024
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