https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-bob-readick-era-1960-1961--7215297enSociety & CultureCopyright 07 Audio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f4cc1b9600e3fa3fe2032f8b965388ec.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-bob-readick-era-1960-1961--7215297Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:08:03 +000007 Audio Network07 Audio Networkinfo@07audio.loveYours Truly, Johnny Dollar followed America's "fabulous freelance insurance investigator," a globe-trotting troubleshooter who recounted each case in flashback through the line items of his own expense account—down to the last dime spent on aspirin....falsec90ffcff-cb2b-5f37-9828-cd7dbd50b50depisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-yaak-mystery-matter-vanished-in-the-snow--73601971https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73601971Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:28 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 28th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to the wilds of northwestern Montana when a wealthy timber baron insured for half a million dollars—double that with accidental death benefits—vanishes on a hunting trip with his daughter and son-in-law....14861960s radio drama,detective mystery,double indemnity,insurance investigator,missing persons,montana wilderness,old time radio,winter survivalfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lone-wolf-matter--73540575https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73540575Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:01:08 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 21st, 1961. An insurance man named Harvey Wade calls Johnny Dollar down in New York with a client's problem: a mysterious figure named Thomas Rayburn Morgan that nobody, including Johnny, can quite place. As Johnny digs into the case, he...14541960s mystery,detective fiction,golden age radio,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,noir,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-simple-simon-matter--73475617https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73475617Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:01:11 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 14th, 1961. Johnny Dollar jets to Los Angeles to investigate a $16,000 policy claim after a policyholder's car plunges into a canyon near Newhall — a death that looks like an accident, reads like a suicide, and smells like something worse....14771961 broadcast,california canyon,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,old time radio,radio mystery,suspected suicidefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rat-pack-matter--73421060https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73421060Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:54 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 23rd, 1961. Johnny Dollar trades his usual big-city glamour for a small oil-money retirement town, where a pack of joyriding teens has been stealing and wrecking the residents' luxury cars—and the local cops are too spooked to stop them....1467bob readick,car theft,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,juvenile delinquents,old-time radio,radio drama 1961,small town mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-latrodectus-matter--73365157https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73365157Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:48 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 16th, 1961. When Dr. Eustace Roy Pennybank, a famous entomologist and toxicology researcher, fears someone is after his priceless — and lethal — private records, he calls in Johnny Dollar to get to the bottom of it. Between a jittery...14621961,bob readick,detective mystery,entomology,johnny dollar,old time radio,poison,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-captain-s-table-matter--73365155https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73365155Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:49 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 9th, 1961. A cranky insurance executive drags Johnny Dollar to Phoenix to bodyguard a wealthy client—only for the man to turn up dead before Johnny's plane even lands. With two policyholders' lives and a $70,000 payout on the line, Johnny...14721960s radio drama,arizona desert setting,detective mystery,golden age radio,insurance investigator,murder or suicide,old-time radio,rest home mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wrong-sign-matter--73365151https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73365151Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:51 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 2nd, 1961. A wealthy widow's sudden fortune and a suspiciously convenient new will send Johnny Dollar to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where a coroner's ruling of natural death doesn't sit well with a local newsman itching to pin murder on the...14301960s mystery,inheritance dispute,insurance investigator,murder mystery,old-time radio,radio drama,small town intrigue,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-light-bandit-s-return--73363175https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73363175Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:58 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 26th, 1961. When escaped convict Tony Valentine resurfaces after a botched prison break turns into murder, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is pulled back into a case he thought he'd already closed. With a $75,000 policy on the line and...14761960s radio mystery,crime drama,film noir,insurance fraud,manhunt,old-time radio,prison escape,private investigatorfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-informer-matter--73247777https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73247777Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 19th, 1961. A jittery, nameless caller phones Johnny Dollar with a murder tip, then hangs up before naming the killer — leaving Johnny with only a strange alias and a hunch to go on. Chasing the barest of leads through phone directories and...15311960s radio drama,detective mystery,golden age radio,insurance investigator,new jersey setting,old time radio,phone booth thriller,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ring-of-death-matter--73246954https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246954Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:15 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 12th, 1961. Johnny Dollar heads to New Orleans to investigate a $25,000 policy on Tony "Touchy" Tarantino, a young boxer whose manager has booked him for a bout across the Mexican border despite a doctor's warning that one more blow to the...14761960s suspense,boxing drama,insurance investigator,mexico border town,new orleans,noir,old-time radio,radio mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-morning-after-matter--73246953https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246953Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 5th, 1961. Johnny Dollar's fishing trip gets cut short when an insurance man drags him into a seven-year-old mystery: a wealthy pilot who vanished with total amnesia after losing his fortune, leaving behind a wrecked plane, no body, and a...14651960s radio drama,amnesia mystery,courtroom deadline,insurance investigator noir,johnny dollar,missing persons,old time radio,plane disappearancefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-touch-up-matter--73246952https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246952Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 26th, 1961. When a mysterious stranger crashes a wealthy couple's 40th anniversary party, he charms every jeweled guest in the room—right before the lights go out and nearly two million dollars in gems vanish with him. Johnny Dollar is...13131960s mystery,golden age radio,high society,insurance investigator,jewel heist,old-time radio,radio noir,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wayward-fireman-matter--73246950https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246950Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:16 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 12th, 1961. When two arson fires in Buffalo threaten to cost Master's Insurance and Trust $400,000, Johnny Dollar calls in an old underworld contact turned unlikely ally: a reformed arsonist now moonlighting as a consultant for the arson...14841960s noir,arson mystery,buffalo new york,detective fiction,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-who-s-who-matter--73246948https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246948Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 5th, 1961. A mysterious call from Fort Worth accuses Johnny Dollar of impersonating himself—and it turns out someone really has been cashing in on his good name. As Johnny juggles a legitimate arson investigation in Dallas with unmasking...14641960s texas,bob readick,identity theft,insurance fraud,johnny dollar,mystery,old-time radio,radio noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bad-back-worse-timing-the-fingers-moody-case--73246945https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246945Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 29th, 1961. Fresh off a ski slope disaster that's left him strapped into a steel-boned back brace, Johnny Dollar refuses to sit out the hunt for Larry "Fingers" Moody, a safecracker who's humiliated him once before. When a $30,000...14511960s noir,expense account mystery,golden age radio,insurance investigator,old time radio,radio drama,safecracker,trenton new jerseyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-very-fishy-matter--73246944https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246944Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 15th, 1961. Johnny Dollar trades Hartford's winter chill for the neon glow of Las Vegas after an insurance agent lures him west with the promise of fishing on Lake Mojave. But the real catch is Lisa Birdwell, a former schoolteacher turned...14851960s radio drama,detective fiction,gambling,insurance investigator,lake mojave,las vegas,mystery,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-paperback-mystery-matter--73246943https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73246943Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:00:06 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 8th, 1961. A miserly Boston millionaire named Gerson is convinced one of his resentful, cash-starved heirs is plotting to murder him — and he'd almost rather die than let them collect. When he hires Johnny Dollar to play...14511960s noir,boston setting,detective mystery,inheritance scheme,insurance investigator,old-time radio,radio drama,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wayward-kilocycles-matter--73225243https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73225243Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:25:54 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 18th, 1960. A string of lightning-fast daylight stickups is terrorizing the tony shops of a Los Angeles beach community, and the local police are stumped by the gunman's uncanny timing. Tri-State Life and Casualty flies Johnny Dollar out...13421960s los angeles,bob readick,detective noir,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old-time radio,radio drama,robbery mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-earned-income-matter--73198987https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73198987Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:12:28 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 4th, 1960. When a Hartford man is beaten in his bed and robbed of $5,000 he kept hidden in a bronze funeral urn, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar reluctantly takes the case — the fee is small, but nothing about the robbery adds up. Why...1403falsefull