Episode 608 - The Missing Chapters Matters (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

Of the legendary run of serialized Johnny Dollar shows starring the great Bob Bailey, three stories are incomplete, with one chapter from each having been lost to time. Today, we're investigating if these stories still hold up even with a missing chapter from each (spoilers: I think they do). We'll hear "The Salt City Matter" (originally aired on CBS between April 2 and 6, 1956 - missing Chapter 2); "The Lonely Hearts Matter" (originally aired on CBS between April 23 until April 27, 1956 - sans Chapter 4); and "The Imperfect Alibi Matter" (originally aired on CBS between September 17 and September 21, 1956 - with an absent Chapter 2).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.1	Crime is a sucker's road.
0:03.9	And those who travel
0:04.6	it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:12.3	The story you were about to hear is true.
0:15.2	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.6	The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
0:21.7	The Adventures of the Saints,
0:23.5	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures
0:27.7	of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.6	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...
0:33.4	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
1:02.2	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:09.2	One of my favorite radio detective shows is yours truly Johnny Dollar, the adventures of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
1:15.0	particularly the run of shows from 1955 until 1956, when Bob Bailey played Dollar in a series
1:24.5	of nightly shows that dramatized a story over the course of a week.
1:29.6	With more than twice the runtime of a typical radio episode,
1:33.9	these five-part stories offered richer characterization and more complex plots,
1:39.5	and today, they hold up as not only great radio detective shows,
1:46.8	but great radio drama, period.
1:54.5	But an unfortunate reality of old-time radio fandom is that many shows have been lost to time,
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