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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

706 episodes · 1949–1962 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Detective

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Johnny Dollar was "the man with the action-packed expense account," an insurance investigator who told each case through the items on his expense report. The show ran on CBS from February 18, 1949, to September 30, 1962, and that last broadcast is often called the end of radio's golden age. Six actors played Johnny. Bob Bailey, who took over in October 1955, is the favorite of many fans. Producer Jack Johnstone made it a fifteen-minute serial, five nights a week, with each case told in five parts.

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Episodes

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194925 episodes
  • The Parakoff Policy February 18, 1949 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Mind in the Shadows.”
  • The Slow Boat from China February 25, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny goes to Singapore to hurry along a shipment of tin and finds everyone hunting for a mysterious "it." The villain sounds a lot like Sydney Greenstreet, and Johnny tells him so.
  • The Robert Perry Case March 4, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Robert Perry is blown up the moment Johnny arrives to protect him, and his beautiful, unfaithful wife has a fine motive.
  • Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round March 11, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Murder at the circus, with snakes.
  • The Milford Brooks III Matter March 25, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A policy pays $2 million if a man takes his own life, and the trouble is, he has no reason to live.
  • The Stolen Portrait of the Duke of Massen April 1, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to postwar London after a stolen painting and finds murder too.
  • The Case of the Hundred Thousand Dollar Legs April 15, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A movie star's legs are insured, and they stay in fine shape even after the woman they belong to is murdered.
  • The Case of Barton Drake April 22, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A man who vanished seven years ago is about to be declared dead. The last show before the series left the air until July.
  • Who Took the Taxis for a Ride July 24, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    Twelve cabs disappear, and the hunt for the "Scarlet Madonna" owes a lot to The Maltese Falcon, right down to a Greenstreet-style villain called Fat Stuff.
  • Murder Ain't Minor August 7, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Not working for an insurance company this time, Johnny takes a case for King Hart, looking for his missing girl, Bonnie Goodwin.
  • Out of the Fire, into the Frying Pan August 21, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Iowa to guard a prize hog. Pinto Colvig plays the pig.
  • The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot September 4, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A leper in India and a woman stowaway on a plane add up to adventure in the Middle East.
  • The Search for Michelle Marsh September 25, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Boston to search for Michelle Marsh and finds murder.
  • The Fishing Boat Affair October 1, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes deep-sea diving off San Pedro and finds a golden secret.
  • The Racehorse Piledriver Matter October 8, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny is at a Chicago racetrack, where a crook is up to something with a horse named Piledriver.
  • Dr. Otto Schmedlich October 15, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny cures a doctor whose kind of medicine is habit-forming.
  • Witness, Witness, Who's Got the Witness October 22, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A bail bondsman hires Johnny to find two men.
  • The Little Man Who Wasn't All There October 29, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A madman in San Francisco takes on an insurance company single-handed, by killing its policyholders one by one.
  • The Island of Tin-Yutan November 5, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    In the South Seas, Johnny finds girls in sarongs, pearls, and two killers with a machine gun.
  • The Melanie Carter Matter November 12, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Boston to protect a little old lady who has some surprises in store.
  • The Skull Canyon Mine November 26, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny heads West to learn where a gold mine's profits are disappearing to.
  • Bodyguard to Anne Connelly December 3, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny goes to Milwaukee to protect a rich woman from an escaped madman.
  • The Circus Animal Show Matter December 10, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A black leopard at the circus is the key to Johnny's case.
  • The Haiti Adventure Matter December 17, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to the Caribbean to keep a man from dying of voodoo.
  • The Department Store Swindle Matter December 24, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Small-time swindlers are working the big department stores, and what do you do when the crook is Santa Claus?
195036 episodes
  • Death Takes a Working Day February 3, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A man is killed by a shot from a long way off, yet the powder burns say the gun was fired up close. Edmond O'Brien's first show as Johnny.
  • The S.S. Malay Trader Ship February 10, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny signs on as a sailor to head off an insurance fraud on a ship full of rubber.
  • The Gravedigger's Spades February 17, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnel Trump of North Dakota are threatening to take their own lives, and Johnny is sent to see why.
  • The Archeologist February 24, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    An archeologist, Bruce Lambert, has disappeared in Egypt, and his sister asks Johnny to dig him up.
  • Bodyguard to the Late Robert W Perry March 3, 1950 · 29 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Alec Jefferson, the Youthful Millionaire March 7, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Young millionaire Alec Jefferson has disappeared in California. Was it murder? The first show after the move from Fridays to Tuesdays.
  • The Eighty-Five Little Minks March 14, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A Boston department store robbery and a murdered night watchman put Johnny on the trail of a safecracker.
  • The Village Scene Matter March 28, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A $250,000 painting is stolen from a struggling Boston art gallery.
  • The Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse April 4, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A Nebraska school burns down, thanks to some flammable corruption, and Big Jim Madden and his boys look guilty.
  • The Dead First-Helpers April 11, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny takes a job in a Pittsburgh steel mill to solve a string of murders over seniority.
  • Pearl Carrasa April 25, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Trying to pay a $5,000 benefit to Pearl Carrasa, Johnny gets beaten up by Las Vegas narcotics crooks.
  • The Harold Trandem Matter May 9, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A wealthy man who's been threatened is murdered right in front of Johnny.
  • The Earl Chadwick Matter May 23, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny flies to Bermuda to find out whether a dead man really is dead.
  • The Port-au-Prince Matter May 30, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to the Caribbean to keep a man from dying of voodoo. The December 1949 script again.
  • The Caligio Diamond Matter June 8, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A $200,000 gem has been stolen, and everyone who ever owned it has been killed, including its latest owner, Mr. Benson.
  • The Arrowcraft Matter June 15, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A string of yacht sinkings has cost eleven lives, and then one more: a beautiful woman.
  • The London Matter June 22, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny is hired to find a narcotics shipment from India and sails for England with two movie stars and the contraband. The ship's detective is named after one of the show's writers.
  • The Barbara James Matter June 29, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Young, beautiful Mrs. Martin James has vanished from her Denver mansion, and her husband is old and sickly.
  • The Belo-Horizonte Railroad July 6, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Strange "accidents" keep happening on a Brazilian railroad.
  • The Calgary Matter July 13, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny tracks a gang that stole $300,000. Someone will talk, but only for immunity and protection.
  • The Henry J. Unger Matter July 20, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny gets a visit from an old girlfriend and from a killer out for revenge, and the evening ends with Johnny framed for murder.
  • The Blood River Matter August 3, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Max Kolburne has been shot dead. Everybody liked Max, so who killed him?
  • The Hartford Alliance Matter August 10, 1950 · CBS · 32 min
    Someone set fire to the Hartford Alliance Loan Company, and the young arsonist won't talk.
  • The Mickey McQueen Matter (1950) August 17, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    An old friend, Hartford cop Mickey McQueen, calls Johnny for help and is found hanged the next day.
  • The Trans-Pacific Import Export Company, South China Branch Matter August 24, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Hong Kong to look into a suspicious fire, and a beautiful girl murdered in his room complicates the case.
  • The Virginia Beach Matter August 31, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny is hired to protect a beautiful woman from her husband, who's getting out of prison and turns out to be a homicidal maniac. The last show before a break until late September.
  • The Howard Caldwell Matter September 30, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny goes to San Francisco to find the missing son of a rich, overbearing mother. The first show on Saturday nights.
  • The Richard Splain Matter October 7, 1950 · CBS · 31 min
    A ship's carpenter who smuggled narcotics inside the ship models he collects has disappeared in New York.
  • The Yankee Pride Matter October 14, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Murder, intrigue and sabotage in Singapore.
  • The Jack Madigan Matter October 21, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A bail bondsman hires Johnny to find two missing witnesses against gangster Jack Madigan. The plot is much like Witness, Witness, Who's Got the Witness from 1949.
  • The Joan Sebastian Matter October 28, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Joan Sebastian has been found dead. Murder or suicide? The answer isn't obvious.
  • The Queen Anne Pistols Matter November 4, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny is hired to deliver a pair of historic pistols. When the new owner refuses them, Johnny lands in a case of British blackmail.
  • The Adam Kegg Matter November 11, 1950 · CBS · 29 min
    Thoroughly unlikable Adam Kegg's jewelry collection has been stolen and is being held for $98,000 ransom.
  • The Nora Falkner Matter November 18, 1950 · CBS · 30 min
    A woman in Las Vegas seems to have poisoned herself, but Johnny suspects attempted murder. Then she's shot dead in the hospital.
  • The Woodward, Manila, Matter November 25, 1950 · CBS · 31 min
    A $75,000 robbery in the Philippines sends Johnny to Manila.
  • The Leland Blackburn Matter December 16, 1950 · 28 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
195131 episodes
  • The Port-O-Call Matter January 13, 1951 · CBS · 31 min
    Four San Francisco loan companies are robbed within two hours. An unusually violent case for Johnny.
  • The David Rockey Matter January 20, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny flies to Nicaragua to tell a sailor, David Rockey, that he's inherited $1.5 million, but Rockey is in jail for murder. Johnny sets out to prove him innocent. A surprise ending.
  • The Jarvis Wilder Matter February 24, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny heads West to find out why a rancher's wife is so eager to confess to his murder.
  • The Celia Woodstock Matter March 3, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny tracks down the missing wife of a Bridgeport millionaire.
  • The Stanley Springs Matter March 10, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny takes on a narcotics ring that uses a cotton company in the Southwest as a front. Olga San Juan guests.
  • The Byron Hayes Matter March 24, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Murder and blackmail in New York.
  • The Jackie Cleaver Matter March 31, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    The beneficiary of a $40,000 policy has disappeared, and with good reason.
  • The Edward French Matter April 7, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    The manager of a tea plantation in the Malay States has disappeared. Was it bandits?
  • The Mickey McQueen Matter (1951) April 14, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    Why did the nicest cop in Hartford kill himself? Or did he? The August 1950 script again, with William Conrad in a heavy Irish brogue.
  • The Willard South Matter April 21, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    Murder in the Virgin Islands, and everyone is guilty.
  • The Month-End Raid Matter April 28, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
  • The Virginia Towne Matter May 5, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    She said the jewelry was a gift. Was it?
  • The George Farmer Matter June 9, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    George Farmer burns to death at a resort, and then the insurance salesman and the examining doctor are murdered too. Written by Blake Edwards.
  • The Arthur Boldrick Matter June 16, 1951 · CBS · 25 min
    Arthur Boldrick has been shot and badly wounded.
  • The Malcolm Wish, M.D. Matter June 20, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny is in San Francisco looking for a missing doctor. Did Dr. Wish jump off the Golden Gate Bridge?
  • The Hatchet House Theft Matter June 27, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    In England, Johnny looks into the disappearance of valuable jewelry, and murder follows.
  • The Alonzo Chapman Matter July 4, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Alonzo Chapman is murdered in a Los Angeles alley, and Johnny finds "no motive" turning into too many motives, and a second body.
  • The Fair-Way Matter July 11, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    A bomb aboard an airliner kills many people near Hartford, and Johnny investigates.
  • The Neal Breer Matter July 18, 1951 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Horace Lockhart Matter August 1, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    A husband and wife die in the same accident, but which one died first? Organ bridges by Eddie Dunstedter.
  • The Lucky Costa Matter August 15, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    A fellow detective has gone bad.
  • The Cuban Jewel Matter September 19, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Havana to recover $800,000 in stolen jewels from a convict who's broken out of jail.
  • The Protection Matter September 26, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Benny Waxman's store burns down and a man is killed, and a tough cop, played by William Conrad, suspects a protection racket. Written by Blake Edwards.
  • The Douglas Taylor Matter October 6, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    A private detective working for Johnny is found murdered, and there was more to him than met the eye.
  • The Millard Ward Matter October 13, 1951 · CBS · 27 min
    Hatred and murder aboard a freighter take Johnny to New Orleans.
  • The Tolhurst Theft Matter October 27, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    After a big fur robbery, two of the three crooks start hunting the third.
  • The Hannibal Murphy Matter November 3, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to Jamaica to solve a murder and uncovers a family secret.
  • The Birdy Baskerville Matter November 10, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    Carl Baskerville fears his brother, just out of jail on Carl's complaint, will kill him. Then Carl is shot, and his brother William is seen running away.
  • The Merrill Kent Matter November 17, 1951 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Youngstown Credit Group Matter December 8, 1951 · CBS · 30 min
    A factory payroll is held up and one of the men carrying it is killed. The Thayer brothers are back in town.
  • The Alma Scott Matter December 29, 1951 · CBS · 28 min
    Who killed Alma Scott? A $20,000 reward from an unsavory character stirs up plenty of interest.
19525 episodes
  • The Glen English Matter January 5, 1952 · CBS · 27 min
    Johnny's old friend Glen English says he has some important papers, and he's promptly murdered. Wally Maher, who died in December 1951, is heard by recording.
  • The Amelia Harwell Matter July 2, 1952 · CBS · 30 min
    A rich woman is poisoned, maybe by her own family, and then her husband is poisoned and nearly dies.
  • The James Clayton Matter December 5, 1952 · CBS · 29 min
    A doctor is threatened by the husband of the woman he's interested in. After a phony emergency call, the doctor is found dead.
  • The Elliott Champion Matter December 12, 1952 · CBS · 29 min
    Elliott Champion, a hard businessman in money trouble, is suspected of burning down his own building for the insurance.
  • The Walter Patterson Matter December 26, 1952 · CBS · 27 min
    A man declared dead comes back to life, years later.
195348 episodes
  • The Baltimore Matter January 2, 1953 · CBS · 27 min
    An ex-con offers Johnny a deal on money from a bank job, and it earns Johnny two bullets and a hospital bed.
  • The Thelma Ibsen Matter January 9, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    Thelma Ibsen has inherited $1,000 from a news dealer, but she's disappeared, and when Johnny finds her she's about to jump from a hotel window.
  • The Starlet Matter January 16, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    Hollywood starlet Toby Drake is strangled with a black silk stocking. A second starlet is killed, and a third murder is planned.
  • The Marigold Matter January 23, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    A friend of Johnny's, a loan collector and not the most popular man in town, has been murdered.
  • The Kay Bellamy Matter January 30, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    Why is a promising radio singer wasting her time in a Boston burlesque house?
  • The Chicago Fraud Matter February 6, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    How did an insurance company write a policy on a man who died of malnutrition?
  • The Latourette Matter February 20, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    Johnny flies to Denver to take over the case of a fellow investigator who died on the job, and the widow suspects foul play.
  • The Underwood Matter February 27, 1953 · CBS · 28 min
    Johnny heads for Oklahoma to decide whether a death was murder, suicide or an accident.
  • The Jeanne Maxwell Matter (1953) March 6, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    A beautiful young woman is murdered, after she's already taken her own life.
  • The King's Necklace Matter March 17, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A $250,000 jewel theft and murder off the coast of Cuba.
  • The Syndicate Matter March 24, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Johnny poses as an oil rig worker to break a loan-shark and murder ring.
  • Lester James Matter March 31, 1953 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Enoch Arden Matter April 7, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    Johnny finds himself about to be dumped overboard off the coast of Panama.
  • The Madison Matter April 14, 1953 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Dameron Matter April 21, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    A four-man bank robbery gang is caught, one man at a time.
  • The San Antonio Matter April 28, 1953 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Blackmail Matter May 5, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A corpse with a twisted neck in a gym leads back to an old blackmail.
  • The Rochester Theft Matter May 12, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    A beautiful woman in an expensive fur coat is killed, and the coat is a clue to an earlier robbery.
  • The Emily Braddock Matter May 19, 1953 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Brisbane Fraud Matter May 26, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 27 min
    A man has disappeared for no apparent reason.
  • The Costain Matter June 2, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny goes to Toledo after a red-haired, green-eyed shoplifter, who turns out to be dead.
  • The Oklahoma Red Matter June 9, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 27 min
    Johnny goes to Kentucky bluegrass country to look into the death of a $65,000 horse.
  • The Emil Carter Matter June 16, 1953 · 29 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Jonathan Bellows Matter June 23, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A rich man used to getting his own way is blown up by a package bomb.
  • The Jones Matter June 30, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    An aging beauty in Las Vegas has had her $30,000 necklace stolen.
  • The Shayne Bombing Matter July 14, 1953 · CBS · 28 min
    A package of explosives leads Johnny to a labor protection racket. Much the same script was used on Richard Diamond in 1949.
  • The Black Doll Matter July 21, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A shooting-gallery prize leads to a woman's murder and an embarrassing spot for a test pilot. Written by Blake Edwards.
  • The James Forbes Matter July 28, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    A rich man is pushed over a cliff on a foggy night.
  • The Voodoo Matter August 4, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    On a case in Haiti, Johnny sees voodoo at work and zombies walking. Much the same story as a 1951 Richard Diamond.
  • The Nancy Shaw Matter August 11, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    A movie star's expensive jewels are stolen. After Johnny tosses her fiance into a pool, she's found badly beaten.
  • The Isabel James Matter August 18, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    Isabel James has been killed with a razor, leaving a $10,000 policy.
  • The Nelson Matter August 25, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    "The Frog" has left Maude Gilkerson a $10,000 inheritance and a lot of trouble, but Maude has the goods on Mr. Big.
  • The Stanley Price Matter September 1, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A fortune in jewels, and a photo on a fishing license.
  • The Lester Matson Matter September 8, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    Two arsonists burn a man's factory and threaten his daughter's life if he calls the police.
  • The William Post Matter September 22, 1953 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Amita Buddha Matter September 29, 1953 · CBS · 29 min
    William McEdwards is found dead in his burned-down home, but he was stabbed and hit over the head before the fire was set.
  • The Alfred Chambers Matter October 6, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to northern Michigan to investigate a murder.
  • The Philip Morey Matter October 13, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    Movie and TV star Philip Morey has had a "personal breakdown," and the insurance company is paying while production waits.
  • The Allen Saxton Matter October 20, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    Allen Saxton paid $200,000 for a supposedly priceless painting. It may be a forgery, and it's insured.
  • The Howard Arnold Matter October 27, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A gangster's lawyer fears the boss will kill him and gives Johnny an envelope with the evidence, just in case.
  • The Gino Gambona Matter November 3, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A gang leader exiled to Sicily comes back to the States for a murder or two.
  • The Bobby Foster Matter November 10, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny breaks up a vicious racket selling fake gamma globulin shots to frightened parents during a polio scare.
  • The Nathan Gayles Matter November 17, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny poses as a big spender from Texas to get the goods on a killer.
  • The Independent Diamond Traders' Matter November 24, 1953 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny goes to New York's diamond district to find where the cheap stones flooding the market are coming from.
  • The Monopoly Matter December 1, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A Molotov cocktail at a burned-out social club uncovers an old protection racket.
  • The Barton Baker Matter December 8, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A strange tool kit is worth a murder or two to a spy who wants it.
  • The Milk and Honey Matter December 15, 1953 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny goes to Beirut to investigate the sinking of a $190,000 yacht.
  • The Ben Bryson Matter December 29, 1953 · 26 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
195427 episodes
  • The Fair-Way Matter (1954) January 5, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    An airliner crash turns out to be a nitroglycerin explosion, and murder. The 1951 script again.
  • The Celia Woodstock Matter (1954) January 12, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny looks for a missing wife, after a local private detective has failed to find her. The 1951 script again.
  • The Beauregard Matter January 26, 1954 · 28 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Paul Gorrell Matter February 2, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    Johnny drives from Phoenix to Los Angeles with a killer and $100,000.
  • The Harpooned Angler Matter February 9, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    On the French Riviera, Johnny investigates the killing of a skin diver with a spear gun.
  • The Uncut Canary Matter February 16, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A huge yellow diamond has disappeared from a ritzy Beverly Hills jewelry store.
  • The Classified Killer Matter February 23, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    An ad for a 1953 Cadillac leads to murder in a Chicago snowstorm.
  • The Road-Test Matter March 2, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A new kind of car being tested in Detroit keeps crashing, and now the test driver is dead.
  • The Terrified Tuan Matter March 9, 1954 · CBS · 30 min
    Johnny flies to Kuala Lumpur to prevent the murder of a plantation owner's wife.
  • The Berlin Matter March 16, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    In Germany, Johnny investigates the murder of an American engineer, and an interesting barge.
  • The Piney Corners Matter March 23, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A murder with an old squirrel gun in rural Pennsylvania.
  • The Sulphur and Brimstone Matter April 6, 1954 · CBS · 26 min
    Johnny flies to Venezuela to investigate a murder and sabotage at a dam project.
  • The Magnolia and Honeysuckle Matter April 13, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny goes to Charleston, South Carolina, to learn why a paper factory has burned down a second time.
  • The Nathan Swing Matter April 20, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A small-time hoodlum is killed. What's the connection between Mr. Big and the prosecutor's daughter?
  • The Frustrated Phoenix Matter April 27, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A brilliant author of the 1930s, now a drunken bum, is killed just after changing his beneficiary.
  • The Dan Frank Matter May 4, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    The police chief has been murdered, and his widow, with a heart like a cash register, isn't the least bit upset.
  • The Bilked Baroness Matter May 18, 1954 · CBS · 24 min
    A $100,000 theft of jewels and furs leads Johnny to a bankrupt ex-husband, a known jewel thief and a murder with a big-bore Winchester.
  • The Punctilious Firebug Matter May 25, 1954 · CBS · 30 min
    A firebug strikes every Tuesday night, and only at places with new fire insurance policies.
  • The Temperamental Tote Board Matter June 1, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    In Puerto Rico, Johnny tracks down an "impossible" scheme to beat the racetrack betting machines.
  • The Sara Dearing Matter June 8, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A movie star of the twenties has died in a fire. Was it suicide, or did her doctor kill her?
  • The Paterson Transport Matter June 15, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    Truck drivers are being beaten. Who has a grudge against the company?
  • The Woodward Manila Matter June 29, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    Johnny goes to the Philippines to find $75,000 stolen from an insurance company. The 1950 script again.
  • The Jan Brueghel Matter July 6, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A stolen masterpiece is finally recovered. Or is it? Suspense promoted it that evening as The Flowering Judas Matter.
  • The Carboniferous Dolomite Matter July 13, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    An oil driller calls Johnny to Sumatra to investigate sabotage, and it turns into a murder case.
  • The Jeanne Maxwell Matter (1954) July 20, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A beautiful young woman is murdered, after she's already taken her own life. The March 1953 script again.
  • The Radioactive Gold Matter July 27, 1954 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny flies to South Bend to recover radioactive gold stolen from a hospital by a thief who doesn't know how deadly it is.
  • The Hampton Line Matter August 3, 1954 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 31 min
    Explosions on Great Lakes ore boats bring big insurance claims, and Johnny heads north to see why.
195565 episodes
1956215 episodes
195744 episodes
  • The Ellen Dear Matter January 6, 1957 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Desalles Matter January 13, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A millionaire falls off his yacht and drowns, and Johnny turns up one murder and two rotten apples.
  • The Blooming Blossom Matter January 20, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A missing emerald, a missing jeweler, and a room full of junk with nothing missing.
  • The Mad Hatter Matter January 27, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A beautiful model has gone missing soon after appearing in Playmate magazine.
  • The Kirby Will Matter February 3, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A kindly old fishing guide has the last laugh from beyond the grave.
  • The Templeton Matter February 10, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    $100,000 in gems are missing from a big safe. How did it get opened?
  • The Meek Memorial Matter March 3, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    An original copy of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is stolen from an old lady.
  • The Suntan Oil Matter March 10, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A five-day-old $75,000 bracelet vanishes in Palm Springs.
  • The Clever Chemist Matter March 17, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A scientific genius is killed and his associate blinded, with the lab door bolted from the outside.
  • The Ming Toy Murphy Matter April 14, 1957 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny is assigned to recover a stolen dog, one that can talk.
  • The Melancholy Memory Matter April 28, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A baseball pitcher has disappeared, along with his Mexican wife.
  • The Peerless Fire Matter May 5, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A junkyard in a residential area burns down, and the neighbors are overjoyed.
  • The Michael Meany Mirage Matter May 19, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A blob of ambergris insured for $20,000 has disappeared, and Johnny heads south to find it, fast.
  • The Wayward Truck Matter May 26, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A truck full of copper pipe has been hijacked, driver and all.
  • The Loss of Memory Matter June 2, 1957 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Mason-Dixon Mismatch Matter June 9, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A young girl's body is found and claimed by two different fathers. The story continues the next week.
  • The Dixon Murder Matter June 16, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    The name of a boat is the clue to the killer. See if you can guess who did it.
  • The Parley Barron Matter June 23, 1957 · 30 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Funny Money Matter June 30, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A rootin'-tootin' character from Oklahoma pays his insurance premiums in $100 bills, bad ones.
  • The Felicity Feline Matter July 7, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A little old lady leaves $60,000 to her cat, who is fully insured.
  • The Heatherstone Players Matter July 14, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A Shakespearean actor whom everybody hated is killed in a radio station.
  • The Yours Truly Matter July 21, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    Johnny is held up, robbed and left stranded in the middle of the desert without his car.
  • The Confederate Coinage Matter July 28, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    One of only four Confederate half dollars ever made is missing, way down south in Dixie.
  • The Wayward Widow Matter August 4, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
    A larcenous little old lady, her Pierce-Arrow, and a four-foot statuette.
  • The Killer's Brand Matter August 11, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 27 min
    Frontier Week in a small town leads to jealousy and murder.
  • The Smoky Sleeper Matter August 25, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 28 min
    A mattress warehouse owned by a shady operator burns down. Arson?
  • The Poor Little Rich Girl Matter September 1, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 29 min
    A $200,000 policy on a playboy husband, and he doesn't even know about it.
  • The Charmona Matter September 8, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A sunken yacht and a missing captain are both heavily insured, and his wife isn't exactly heartbroken over losing either.
  • The J.P.D. Matter September 15, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A brewery faces steep competition from a new factory that plans to dynamite it out of business.
  • The Ideal Vacation Matter September 22, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    An escaped convict sends Johnny to protect a man on vacation who doesn't know his life is in danger.
  • The Doubtful Dairy Matter September 29, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A silo burns on the farm of an important dairyman, a man with pull.
  • The Bum Steer Matter October 6, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Cattle rustlers? Yes and no. It's anthrax that counts.
  • The Silver Belle Matter October 13, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Old Mrs. Crabtree won't sell her worked-out mine for a tourist development.
  • The Mary Grace Matter October 20, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    Johnny's girlfriend is murdered, and Johnny is the number one suspect.
  • The Three Sisters Matter October 27, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 19 min
    A concert pianist is shot, and the clues are in the piano, and in the birdcage.
  • The Model Picture Matter November 3, 1957 · 21 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Alkali Mike Matter November 10, 1957 · CBS · 19 min
    Johnny's old friend Meg McCarthy is suspected of murdering a rich old codger in the Nevada desert. Was it the greedy relatives, or suicide?
  • The Shy Beneficiary Matter November 17, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 23 min
    Johnny hunts a killer who has just inherited $25,000.
  • The Hope to Die Matter November 24, 1957 · 20 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Sunny Dream Matter December 1, 1957 · CBS · 25 min
    At a home for the aged, the old folks keep "accidentally" falling down the stairs.
  • The Hapless Hunter Matter December 8, 1957 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 19 min
    A hunting guide runs amok and shoots everything in sight, himself included.
  • The Happy Family Matter December 15, 1957 · CBS · 24 min
    A dying man and his three not-too-grateful heirs.
  • The Carmen Kringle Matter December 22, 1957 · CBS · 19 min
    A Christmas story about an old prospector dying in the desert, and his faithful mule, Carmen.
  • The Latin Lovely Matter December 29, 1957 · CBS · 24 min
    An exotic dancer does some strange things with her retirement policy.
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  • The Ingenuous Jeweler Matter January 5, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A million-dollar jewel theft, and a rubber doorstop is an important clue.
  • The Boron 112 Matter January 12, 1958 · CBS · 20 min
    An inventor has insured his new invention. Is he an old crackpot or a subversive agent?
  • The Eleven O'Clock Matter January 19, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    The owner of an advertising agency gets a death threat. Was it from his partner?
  • The Price of Fame Matter February 2, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 22 min
    Vincent Price, playing himself, has been robbed of $100,000, and the trail leads to a seedy Paris cafe and a character called the Gray Cat.
  • The Sick Chick Matter February 9, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    A former insurance man now raising chickens in New Jersey has a sick flock, and there's a good reason why.
  • The Time and Tide Matter February 16, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    On a yacht in the Caribbean, Johnny protects Ed Rollins from his two-timing girlfriend and her blackmailing pals.
  • The Durango Laramie Matter February 23, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Durango Laramie Dalhart, the man from Bum Sprung, Oklahoma, who washes and irons his $100 bills, has disappeared.
  • The Diamond Dilemma Matter March 2, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    An eccentric billionaire insured his diamonds against theft by spacemen, and now he's filed a claim.
  • The Wayward Moth Matter March 9, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    A mysterious explosion at a secret rocket-fuel lab in the Everglades. Was it sabotage?
  • The Salkoff Sequel Matter March 16, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A former Nazi working on rocket fuel in the Florida swamps has disappeared, and Johnny ends up helping launch the Explorer satellite.
  • The Denver Disbursal Matter March 23, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Don Ricardo is the beneficiary on four different policies worth over $200,000. Just a coincidence?
  • The Killer's List Matter March 30, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    Everett Benton was pushed, jumped or fell from a window. Never try to frame a dead man.
  • The Eastern-Western Matter April 6, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    A whole herd of cattle has been stolen, in Florida.
  • The Wayward Money Matter April 13, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    $104,000 is taken from a tobacco company safe, and Elmer, the meek little bookkeeper, disappears and is found dead.
  • The Wayward Trout Matter April 20, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A dead fish always floats. Or does it?
  • The Village of Virtue Matter April 27, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A South Carolina town full of retired crooks is hit by a string of robberies. Are the old-timers back at it?
  • The Carson Arson Matter May 4, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 26 min
    A strange series of fires is burning down a chain of supermarkets.
  • The Rolling Stone Matter May 11, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A beautiful pink diamond is stolen.
  • The Ghost to Ghost Matter May 18, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Johnny investigates a whole town that seems to be haunted.
  • The Midnight Sun Matter May 25, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 26 min
    Johnny is flying over Alaska in a cargo plane full of dynamite when the pilot comes down with appendicitis.
  • The Wayward River Matter June 8, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 26 min
    A river at flood crest, and a man who tries to profit from it.
  • The Delectable Damsel Matter June 15, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A beautiful woman with tons of money, and a missing fortune in gems.
  • The Virtuous Mobster Matter June 22, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Johnny gets beaten up, but good. But which twin has the gun?
  • The Ugly Pattern Matter June 29, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 22 min
    An executive is murdered every Wednesday, like clockwork.
  • The Blinker Matter July 6, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 22 min
    The case of an elephant with a hollow leg.
  • The Mojave Red Matter July 13, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A sunken boat and murder in the desert. Part one of a two-week story.
  • The Mojave Red Sequel July 20, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Suspicion falls on Red, the fishing guide. Part two of the story.
  • The Wayward Killer Matter July 27, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 22 min
    A murder witness fears he's the next target, and Johnny, hired to keep him safe, fails miserably.
  • The Lucky Four Matter August 3, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 23 min
    Looking into a policyholder's death when a dam broke, Johnny is nearly killed by a car bomb.
  • The Two Faced Matter August 10, 1958 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny visits the Old Lang Syne Furniture Company, run by some very unusual people, to learn what became of $58,000 stolen three years ago.
  • The Noxious Needle Matter August 24, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    J. Lamont Scofield carried a $750,000 policy. Now he's dead, and his last nurse turns out to be a burlesque dancer.
  • The Malibu Mystery Matter September 7, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    A yacht worth over $150,000 explodes and sinks, and some phony diamonds and a phony explosion sink a fraud.
  • The Wayward Diamonds Matter September 14, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Ralph Merrill has confessed to a fraud over his lost yacht, but what happened to Mrs. Merrill's jewels?
  • The Johnson Payroll Matter September 21, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Johnny is sent on a relaxing trip to Southern California to pick up $100,000 and bring it back.
  • The Gruesome Spectacle Matter September 28, 1958 · CBS · 24 min
    Tommy Hargrave is killed in a traffic accident in Bethel, New York. Johnny doesn't think it was an accident.
  • The Double Trouble Matter November 16, 1958 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Two different Henry Kingmans turn up to claim the $65,000 their father left twenty years ago.
  • The Hair Raising Matter November 30, 1958 · CBS · 21 min
    A wealthy man is murdered, and Johnny smells cordite in the air.
195947 episodes
  • The Hollywood Mystery Matter January 4, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A strange $10,000 embezzlement by a dying old man named Parley Baron.
  • The Deadly Doubt Matter January 11, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A woman's alibi for a murder badly needs checking, and it gets checked, badly.
  • The Doting Dowager Matter January 25, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A cheap statue is stolen and held for ransom.
  • The Date with Death Matter February 8, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    Johnny's date becomes bait for a killer.
  • The Shankar Diamond Matter February 15, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 23 min
    A thirty-four-carat diamond and a swinging grandmother type.
  • The Blue Madonna Matter February 22, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A most unusual art forger, who never appears in the story.
  • The Net of Circumstance Matter March 8, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    A robbery and a missing night watchman. But who cares?
  • The Baldero Matter March 15, 1959 · CBS · 24 min
    Piracy among the upper crust.
  • The Lake Mead Mystery Matter March 22, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    A hood on a fishing trip wants revenge and is taking his victim for a last ride.
  • The Jimmy Carter Matter March 29, 1959 · CBS · 24 min
    A young boy in rural Massachusetts calls Johnny to report a murder, and by the time Johnny gets there, Jimmy has disappeared.
  • The Frisco Fire Matter April 5, 1959 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny goes after a clever arsonist who has shot his pal Smokey, and visits KCBS executive Maury Webster, who plays himself.
  • The Fairweather Friend Matter April 12, 1959 · CBS · 26 min
    A dead rattler helps Johnny catch an even deadlier snake.
  • The Cautious Celibate Matter April 19, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    Calling himself "Mr. Bailey," Johnny runs all over the country to dodge a gun-toting Westerner who's eager to catch up with him.
  • The Winsome Widow Matter April 26, 1959 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Fatal Filet Matter May 10, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny and a friend share a steak. Johnny's piece is overcooked, but his friend dies from ground glass in the meat.
  • The Twin Trouble Matter May 17, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    The twin brother of one of Johnny's insurance clients is being blackmailed over his criminal record.
  • The Cask of Death Matter May 24, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A mad wine collector relives Edgar Allan Poe's horror story.
  • The Big H Matter May 31, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    Johnny gets a call for help from Helen Daener.
  • The Wayward Heiress Matter June 7, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A rich girl and a threatened husband.
  • The Wayward Sculptor Matter June 14, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    Who is behind a fraudulent $50,000 claim? The trail leads to a dead sculptor. Or is he?
  • The Life at Stake Matter June 21, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    Johnny is in Beverly Hills to help the rich, eccentric Alvin Cartwright, and then Cartwright's murdered body is being taken out to sea.
  • The Mei-Ling Buddha Matter June 28, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    The world's most valuable piece of jade vanishes from a dusty locked room, and turns up in Paris.
  • The Only One Butt Matter July 5, 1959 · CBS · 18 min
    Johnny is offered $5,000 to find Truda Lynn. He finds her body, and a clue in an ashtray.
  • The Frantic Fisherman Matter July 12, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    Johnny puts on scuba gear to fish up a corpse in Lake Mojave.
  • The Will and a Way Matter July 19, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A fishing guide at the Lake Mojave resort says he's been cheated out of his inheritance, and the will needs a careful look.
  • The Bolt out of the Blue Matter July 26, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    A retired sea captain's life is threatened, and a lightning bolt plays a big part in the rescue.
  • The Deadly Chain Matter August 2, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    A wealthy eccentric, Amos Cartwright, fears for his life, from a chain letter.
  • The Lost by a Hair Matter August 9, 1959 · CBS · 19 min
    A lumberyard worth a third of a million dollars burns down, and then the owner is found dead under a hair dryer.
  • The Night in Paris Matter August 16, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 19 min
    Johnny flies to Paris to meet the Grey Cat and recover the Olney diamonds.
  • The Embarcadero Matter August 23, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    The Grey Cat in Paris and Smokey in San Francisco help Johnny recover the Cellini medallion.
  • The Really Gone Matter August 30, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    Johnny flies to Oregon to find a missing beneficiary named Jonathan Doe.
  • The Backfire That Backfired Matter September 6, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A hot rod and a plan for murder, and Johnny is almost tempted into marriage.
  • The Leumas Matter September 13, 1959 · 19 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Little Man Who Was There Matter September 20, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    Howard Edwards is insured for $100,000, and he's disappeared.
  • The Buffalo Matter October 4, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A time bomb and $400,000 stolen make things lively for a department store near the Canadian border. Part one of two.
  • The Further Buffalo Matter October 11, 1959 · CBS · 20 min
    Johnny charters a helicopter to chase a yacht carrying the stolen $400,000 in Canadian waters. Part two.
  • The Double Identity Matter October 18, 1959 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Missing Missile Matter October 25, 1959 · 29 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Hand of Providential Matter November 1, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    A phony insurance company offers Johnny a $5,000 fee.
  • The Larson Arson Matter November 8, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny is hired to protect a small-time gangster whose life and home are being threatened.
  • The Bayou Body Matter November 15, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    A dead man in Florida leads Johnny to a burlesque stripper in New York.
  • The Fancy Bridgework Matter November 22, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    There's plainly been a murder on Florida's Sunshine Bridge, but it takes a chicken to scratch up the killer.
  • The Wrong Man Matter November 29, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    An old man in a wheelchair is viciously beaten just before changing his will. Why?
  • The Hired Homicide Matter December 6, 1959 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 20 min
    A Denver advertising agency hires Johnny to prevent a murder.
  • The Sudden Wealth Matter December 13, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    An investment plan that promises to double your money seems too good to be true, and it is.
  • The Red Mystery Matter December 20, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny is asked to track down his favorite fishing guide, who has gone missing. A Christmas story.
  • The Burning Desire Matter December 27, 1959 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny's pal Smokey is onto seven suspicious fires in Los Angeles, set by seven different arsonists.
196046 episodes
  • The Hapless Ham Matter January 3, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny gets a phone call from a man, after the man has been murdered.
  • The Unholy Two Matter January 10, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny tracks down the killer of a man who had just come into an inheritance.
  • The Evaporated Clue Matter January 17, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    The obvious killer, with the only possible motive, can prove he was in Alaska at the time of the murder.
  • The Nuclear Goof Matter January 24, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Johnny tries to recover stolen radioactive material before it explodes, and makes one mistake after another.
  • The Merry-Go-Round Matter January 31, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    An eccentric rich old man opens his own art gallery, and a valuable icon is promptly stolen.
  • The Sidewinder Matter February 7, 1960 · CBS · 23 min
    A man who poisons cattle is delivered to Johnny tied up, by way of a sandstorm, and the killer strikes while still tied.
  • The P.O. Matter February 14, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny flies to California to get the goods on Danny Diamond, a very clever criminal.
  • The Alvin's Alfred Matter February 21, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    An eccentric rich old man hires Johnny to recover his kidnapped dog.
  • The Look Before the Leap Matter February 28, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny has one day to find a crook hiding in Paris and bring him back to New York.
  • The Moonshine Matter March 6, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny dodges a crazed hillbilly in the Missouri swamps.
  • The Deep Down Matter March 13, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Someone shoots at a scientist in the dark at the bottom of a Michigan copper mine. Was uranium involved?
  • The Saturday Night Matter March 20, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny sets out to solve a string of grocery store robberies in Colorado.
  • The False Alarm Matter March 27, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    The owner of a Florida chemical plant and her husband are murdered with a poisoned crystal.
  • The Double Exposure Matter April 3, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    A fighting Irishman is accused of cashing the same $3,000 check twice.
  • The Deadly Swamp Matter April 17, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    Four wild swamp men hold Johnny prisoner, set on killing him.
  • The Silver Queen Matter April 24, 1960 · CBS · 23 min
    The talkative owner of Meg's cafe suspects murder in a small Massachusetts fishing town.
  • The Fatal Switch Matter May 1, 1960 · CBS · 22 min
    A murder aboard a yacht at sea, done with a strange gas device, and the radio.
  • The Phony Phone Matter May 8, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    J. Ransom Wendell, a very important client, wants to see Johnny right away. But what for?
  • The Mystery Gal Matter May 15, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    Andy the Actor is on the loose, along with a woman with an uncanny voice.
  • The Man Who Waits Matter May 22, 1960 · CBS · 22 min
    A man just out of jail goes after the jewels he hid seven years ago, and Johnny goes right after him.
  • The Red Rock Matter May 29, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    A body buried in the Arizona desert leads Johnny to a crazed prospector and a nest of rattlers.
  • The Canned Canary Matter June 5, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    Stolen yellow diamonds lead Johnny to France, with a can opener.
  • The Harried Heiress Matter June 12, 1960 · CBS · 26 min
    A plan to marry into an inheritance falls through when Johnny rushes to the Las Vegas wedding mills.
  • The Flask of Death Matter June 19, 1960 · CBS · 19 min
    Johnny tries to prevent sabotage of a vital part of the space program.
  • The Wholly Unexpected Matter June 26, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Johnny and Pat McCracken go fishing at Lake Mojave and become targets of an escaped convict sworn to kill Johnny.
  • The Collector's Matter July 3, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    A gun collector with a $500,000 double-indemnity policy is found dead in his car, and everyone seems eager to call it an accident.
  • The Back to the Back Matter July 17, 1960 · CBS · 25 min
    The owner of an advertising agency is shot, but the would-be killer forgot his victim wore a back brace.
  • The Rhymer Collection Matter July 31, 1960 · CBS · 21 min
    Years after a fabulous collection of porcelain miniatures was stolen, one of them turns up in the former owner's mail slot.
  • The Paradise Lost Matter August 14, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 21 min
    Johnny checks into a home for the aged near Kingston, New York, to look into four sudden deaths, each with the home named as beneficiary.
  • The Twisted Twin Matter August 21, 1960 · CBS · 22 min
    One of a World War I flying hero's twin sons must be found or proven dead, and he may be a Chicago gangster's henchman, or insane.
  • The Deadly Debt Matter August 28, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    Casey Terry swore revenge on the witness who sent him to jail, but it's the ex-convict who turns up murdered.
  • The Killer Kin Matter September 4, 1960 · CBS · 21 min
    Johnny's life is threatened, and for all his efforts, the cops do all the work.
  • The Too Much Money Matter September 11, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 22 min
    Alvin Peabody Cartwright is frantic, once again.
  • The Real Smokey Matter September 18, 1960 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Five Down Matter September 25, 1960 · 31 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Stope of Death Matter October 2, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    A miner is killed in a gold mine. Or was it murder?
  • The Recompense Matter October 9, 1960 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A dying man confesses to a murder, then recovers, and Johnny is hired to look into the deathbed confession.
  • The Twins of Tahoe Matter October 16, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    A rich old man seems to have been murdered and dumped in Lake Tahoe. His twin nephews are the obvious suspects, but which one, and where's the body?
  • The Unworthy Kin Matter October 23, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    An escaped convict threatens Johnny and the father of a very beautiful girl.
  • The What Goes Matter October 30, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    A mysterious insurance policy on an unnamed person who is in grave danger.
  • The Super Salesman Matter November 6, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    The $321,000 Rochemont necklace is missing. Johnny is caught breaking into a jewelry store, then becomes a vacuum cleaner salesman.
  • The Bad One Matter November 13, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    A juvenile delinquent down South knows the secret of a murder but won't tell, and for good reason.
  • The Double Deal Matter November 20, 1960 · CBS · 23 min
    Mickey the Hood and the famous canary diamonds. What's the connection?
  • The Empty Threat Matter November 27, 1960 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny comes back from Tahiti with a nervous old man who's sure he's going to be murdered.
  • The Earned Income Matter December 4, 1960 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Wayward Kilocycles Matter December 18, 1960 · CBS · 22 min
    A thief with an uncanny sense of timing pulls off a string of robberies, and a television remote control helps Johnny tune in on him.
196143 episodes
  • The Paperback Mystery Matter January 8, 1961 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Very Fishy Matter January 15, 1961 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Short Term Matter January 29, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny is back after Larry "Fingers" Moody and the $33,000 still missing, and his bad back lands in a New Jersey jail.
  • The Who's Who Matter February 5, 1961 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Wayward Fireman Matter February 12, 1961 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Touch-Up Matter February 26, 1961 · CBS · 22 min
    A handsome young man pulls a two-million-dollar jewel robbery and doesn't mind being photographed, having his motel known, or seeing the loot recovered.
  • The Morning After Matter March 5, 1961 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Ring of Death Matter March 12, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    A New Orleans prizefighter is being set up to die in a Mexican arena.
  • The Informer Matter March 19, 1961 · CBS · 26 min
    Johnny heads for a murder in Vineland, New Jersey, before anyone has reported it.
  • The Two's a Crowd Matter March 26, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny races to find an escaped convict before an enraged cop kills him.
  • The Wrong Sign Matter April 2, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    An eccentric old woman leaves over a million dollars to the wrong person, and the signature on the new will matches exactly. That's the problem.
  • The Captain's Table Matter April 9, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    An old-fashioned flourish in a dead man's letter is the clue to murder.
  • The Latrodectus Matter April 16, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A once-great entomologist is found murdered and his papers are gone.
  • The Rat Pack Matter April 23, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A gang of juvenile delinquents terrorizes a small town.
  • The Simple Simon Matter May 14, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    Murder or suicide in San Diego?
  • The Lone Wolf Matter May 21, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A case of blackmail.
  • The Yaak Mystery Matter May 28, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    An avalanche on Lost Horse Mountain is meant to bury the evidence, but Johnny digs it out.
  • The Stock-In-Trade Matter June 4, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    A murder in Memphis, and a broker helps Johnny break the killer.
  • The Big Date Matter June 11, 1961 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “The Million Dollar Jewelery Matter.”
  • The Low Tide Matter June 18, 1961 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Imperfect Crime Matter June 25, 1961 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Well of Trouble Matter July 2, 1961 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Fiddle Faddle Matter July 9, 1961 · 26 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Old Fashioned Murder Matter July 16, 1961 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Chuckanut Matter July 23, 1961 · 26 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Philadelphia Miss Matter July 30, 1961 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 25 min
    A beautiful young woman has her own ideas about a secret invention she knows nothing about.
  • The Perilous Padre Matter August 6, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A treasure hunt among the coastal dunes of Texas.
  • The Wrong Doctor Matter August 13, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    Murder and narcotics take Johnny to a Mexican town with a funny name.
  • The Too Many Crooks Matter August 20, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A woman with a million-dollar policy on her jewels is attacked and robbed, and the trail leads to counterfeiters and a murder.
  • The Shifty Looker Matter August 27, 1961 · CBS · 26 min
    Johnny smells a rat in a $100,000 kidnapping.
  • The All Wet Matter September 3, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A phony "infernal machine" leads Johnny to a death in the bathtub.
  • The Buyer and the Cellar Matter September 10, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    A maker of old horror films is the key to finding a missing, henpecked commission buyer.
  • The Double-Barreled Matter September 24, 1961 · CBS · 29 min
    A string of odd robberies where nothing is taken sends Johnny on a wild dove hunt.
  • The Medium Rare Matter October 8, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny looks into "The Temple of the Living Truth" and finds a phony spiritualist.
  • The Three for One Matter October 22, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    A murder that wasn't a murder, a hole that wasn't a hole, and a suspect who wasn't a suspect.
  • The Bee or Not to Bee Matter October 29, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny checks out a hotel racket.
  • The Monticello Mystery Matter November 5, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A murder at a fine trout lake in New York State.
  • The Wrong One Matter November 12, 1961 · CBS · 26 min
    A decomposing corpse takes Johnny into the Everglades.
  • The Guide to Murder Matter November 19, 1961 · CBS · 25 min
    A Down Easter, and a murder done with a 1922 Essex.
  • The Mad Bomber Matter November 26, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A madman takes his revenge with explosives.
  • The Cinder Elmer Matter December 3, 1961 · CBS · 27 min
    Johnny puts on snow chains in sunny California to look for a missing man at Hillcrest Lodge: a short little fellow with a tall, beautiful wife.
  • The Phony Phone Matter (1961) December 17, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A man's factory blows up and it's plainly arson, but the obvious suspect is using Johnny for his own ends. Not the same story as the 1960 show of this title.
  • The One Too Many Matter December 31, 1961 · CBS · 24 min
    A rich old woman is about to change her will, and she has two greedy nephews.
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  • The Hot Chocolate Matter January 7, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A $100,000 jewel robbery leads to a time bomb and a murder.
  • The Terrible Torch Matter January 21, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny calls in his ex-arsonist pal Smokey when factories start burning.
  • The Can't Be So Matter January 28, 1962 · CBS · 26 min
    A man is found murdered, and the obvious suspect is Johnny's pal, an insurance man whose wife was seen with the victim.
  • The Nugget of Truth Matter February 4, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    A gold nugget is the clue to a murder over a new invention.
  • The Do It Yourself Matter February 11, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A run of puzzling fires in California's Simi Valley baffles Johnny until he remembers a phrase from his old Latin class.
  • The Takes A Crook Matter February 18, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A valuable painting is stolen, and so is important evidence from the trunk of Johnny's car.
  • The Mixed Blessing Matter February 25, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
  • The Top Secret Matter March 4, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    Explosions keep hitting a top-secret rocket fuel laboratory.
  • The Golden Dream Matter March 11, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    A body in a mine shaft nearly sends Johnny to the mother lode in the sky.
  • The Ike And Mike Matter March 18, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
  • The Shadow of a Doubt Matter March 25, 1962 · CBS · 26 min
    A rich soft-drink maker in Palm Springs has a perfect alibi for an obvious murder.
  • The Blue Rock Matter April 1, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
  • The Ivy Emerald Matter April 8, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A safe was cracked so easily that even Johnny can do it.
  • The Wrong Idea Matter April 15, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    An ex-convict makes a vow, and people take it the wrong way.
  • The Skidmore Matter April 22, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
  • The Grand Canyon Matter April 29, 1962 · CBS · 23 min
    Chasing a stolen necklace, Johnny is nearly pushed into the canyon.
  • The Burma Red Matter May 6, 1962 · 24 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The Lust for Gold Matter May 13, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    Johnny puts on scuba gear near Cozumel, Mexico, looking for treasure and a killer.
  • The Two Steps to Murder Matter May 20, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A man found dead in Las Vegas supposedly killed himself, but the poison was so bitter he'd have tasted it.
  • The Zipp Matter May 27, 1962 · CBS · 23 min
    A murder in a locked tool shed, and no gun anywhere.
  • The Wayward Gun Matter June 3, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    A killer is taken into custody, and Johnny isn't happy about it: it's him.
  • The All Too Easy Matter June 17, 1962 · CBS · 23 min
    An eighty-two-year-old man with a bad heart is having his cake and eating it too, by way of arson.
  • The Hood Of Death Matter June 24, 1962 · CBS · 26 min
    Someone has twice tried to kill an old man with dynamite. Can Johnny stop a third try?
  • The Vociferous Dolphin Matter July 1, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    A talking dolphin speaks English and, with help from a CBS radio engineer, names a murderer.
  • The Rilldoe Matter July 8, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny goes fishing and catches a corpse.
  • The Weather or Not Matter July 15, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    An eccentric's private weather station forecasts murder.
  • The Skimpy Matter July 22, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    Once a crook, always a crook? An ex-con's brother says no.
  • The Four Is a Crowd Matter July 29, 1962 · CBS · 25 min
    A man is sure one of his brother's three daughters is going to kill him.
  • The Case of Trouble Matter August 5, 1962 · CBS · 26 min
    Johnny goes to Iowa on a case and finds he looks just like the suspect.
  • The Oldest Gag Matter August 12, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    Did the victim really kill himself? He's not the type.
  • The Lorelei Matter August 19, 1962 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 24 min
    A heavily insured, eccentric millionaire is killed. Was it his young and beautiful French wife?
  • The Gold Rush Matter August 26, 1962 · CBS · 26 min
    Treachery in a gold mine, and a blind man with 20-20 vision.
  • The Doninger Doninger Matter September 2, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny uses an atlas to track down a missing beneficiary.
  • The Four Cs Matter September 9, 1962 · 25 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • The No Matter Matter September 16, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    Johnny finds a dead brunette, and then her body disappears.
  • The Deadly Crystal Matter September 23, 1962 · CBS · 23 min
    A woman's $300,000 in jewels are stolen. Johnny nearly collides with a beautiful woman in traffic, sits next to her on a plane, then meets her at the owner's house as she returns the jewels.
  • The Tip-Off Matter September 30, 1962 · CBS · 24 min
    A convict about to die in prison has a last thank-you for Johnny, who helped his kid brother get a start, and there's still the $100,000 from his last safe job. The last show of the series.