The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1948–1962
- Surviving broadcasts
- 842
- Genre
- detective
For over twelve years, from 1949 through 1962 (including a one year hiatus in 1954-1955), this series recounted the cases "the man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar".
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Milford Brooks III (Dick Powell Audition) · 7 Dec 1948
- 2. Witness, Witness, Who's Got the Witness · 22 Oct 1949
- 3. The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Unedited Drama Portions) · 16 May 1950
- 01
Milford Brooks III (Dick Powell Audition)
7 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
Witness, Witness, Who's Got the Witness
22 Oct 1949 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Unedited Drama Portions)
16 May 1950 · 26 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
The Mickey McQueen Matter
14 Apr 1951 · 25 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
The Walter Patterson Matter
26 Dec 1952 · 27 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
The Stanley Price Matter
1 Sep 1953 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
The Punctilious Firebug Matter
25 May 1954 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
The Valentine Matter - Ep 1
31 Oct 1955 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1948–1962
Other series the network carried while Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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