Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Collection 1 Audiobook (Free)

First heard about network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Buck chronicled the travels of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, “the person with the action-packed expense account.”

For 15 years, it had been one of the most popular detective shows within the air, enduring until the final times of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started using a phone call from an insurance professional calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual declare. His investigations usually required Dollar to about Yours Truly, Johnny Money, Collection 1 happen to be distant locales and often included murder. The stories had been recounted in flashback, as Dollar listed each collection item from his expense accounts: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare towards the airport.”

Over the years, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar, including Charles Russell, John Lund and Edmund O’Brien but in 1955, Bob Bailey, took over as the series was switching to a new dynamic format of 75-minute storylines told in five, 15-minute installments Monday-thru-Friday. While various other radio shows were waning in the middle 1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Buck was at its peak. Experts include these 75-minute activities as the best of the greatest from radio’s fantastic age.

5/14/56 through 5/18/56 The Moderate DONE WELL Matter5/21/56 through 5/25/56 The Tears of Night Matter5/28/56 through 6/1/56 The Reasonable Doubt Matter6/4/56 through 6/8/56 The Indestructible Mike Matter6/11/56 through 6/15/56 The Laughing Matter6/18/56 through 6/22/56 The Pearling Matter