The Theatre of the Mind | Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Open Town Matter" Part 3/5 Oldtime Radio Crime Drama @Goldenageofcinema | Uploaded March 2011 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar "The Open Town Matter" Part 3/5 Oldtime Radio Crime Drama
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the longest running radio detective shows, with 14 years of intrigue and adventure. It was well received and became the last drama on the air when radio interests waned in the 1960s. Johnny Dollar was "the freelance investigator with the action-packed expense account." He worked for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, flying from Mexico to swamps to California ghost towns. He would recover furs and diamonds for a cut of the goods, body guard wealthy men, and climb into the deathly Skull Canyon. All stories included mystery and murder, slipping listeners to the edge of their seats with teeth a clicking on the fingernails.Johnny narrated the shows as if they were expense accounts sent to his employer. A clever way of narration, it always began, "expense account, item one," with him telling about cab fare, then went on through the air fare, his trip across the country, and so on through the adventure. At the end of the show, he would finish his expense report and sign it, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar