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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alder Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4279)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

In Caracas, Johnny has to try to save an insured oil man from being killed, but has to find his way through a web of lies by everyone in the house, including the insured.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: August 8, 9, and 10, 1956

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Gil Stratton; Harry Bartell; Barbara Fuller; John Dehner; Virginia Gregg; Don Diamond; Vivi Janiss; Tony Barrett

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Mr. Chameleon: The False Witness Murder Case (EP4278)

Karl Swenson

Today’s Mystery:

The older husband of an unhappy younger woman is murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1949

Originating from New York City

Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon

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Dangerous Assignment: Street Car 17 (EP4277)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Trieste, Italy to meet someone on a street car with information about the location of a report on foreign knowledge of US atomic secrets.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 31, 1952

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell; Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner; Dan Rist; Paul Frees; Herb Ellis; Tony Barrett; Paul Dubov

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Alder Matter, Episodes One and Two (EP4276)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is sent to Venezuela to investigate why a wealthy oil man keeps changing his insurance beneficiary. The insured refuses to tell him anything, but gets Johnny to stay and save his life.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: August 6 and 7, 1956

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Gil Stratton; Harry Bartell; Barbara Fuller; John Dehner; Virginia Gregg; Don Diamond; Vivi Janiss; Tony Barrett

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Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Iron Box (Encore) (EP4275)

Basil Rathbone

An eighty-four-year-old Scottish lord who, because of being born on February 29, has been waiting 63 years for the inheritance he should have received when he was 21, finds out he’ll have to wait a little longer, and then Holmes reports that he was pushed out the window.

Original Air Date: December 31, 1945

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes; Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson

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Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquaintance (Encore) (EP4274e)

Gerald Mohr
Marlowe is hired on New Year’s Eve to a locate a missing fiancée, who disappeared on the same day that a dangerous convict broke out of prison.

Original Air Date: December 26, 1948

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Gerald Mohor as Philip Marlowe

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Studio One: Anthony Adverse (Encore) (EP4274)

Bud Collyer
A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers that they’ve been missing for a year.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1947

Originating from New York

Starring: Bud Collyer; Mercedes McCambridge; Fletcher Markle

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The McCormack Matter Omnibus Edition (Encore) (EP4273)

Bob Bailey

A dying prisoner sends Johnny searching for $100,000 in stolen jewels that were never recovered; murder follows.

Original Air Dates: October 3-7, 1955

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Mary Jane Croft; Virginia Gregg; Marvin Miller; Forrest Lewis; Frank Gerstle; Herb Butterfield; Herb Ellis; Tony Barrett; Ken Christy; Jack Kruschen; Junius Matthews

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Mercury Theatre: The Man Who Was Thursday (Encore) (EP4272)

Orson Welles

In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist council of Europe.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

Originating in New York

Starring: Orson Welles; Eustace Wyatt; Edgar Barrier; Joseph Cotten; George Coulouris; Ray Collins

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Screen Director’s Playhouse: Spellbound (Encore) (EP4271)

Mercedes McCambridge
Today’s Mystery: A psychiatrist tries to unravel the mystery of a man who believes he murdered another psychiatrist. Will she find out the truth or become his next victim?

Original Air Date: January 25, 1951

Originating in Hollytwood

Starring: Mercedes McCambridge; Joseph Cotten; Herb Butterfield; Howard McNear; William Tracy; James Nusser; John Blyforce

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The Ford Theatre: The Adventure of a Bad Boy (Encore) (EP4270)

Hugh Marlowe

Today’s Mystery: Ellery Queen investigates the attempted poisoning of a cantankerous woman. The most obvious suspect is her eight-year-old nephew.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1948

Originating in New York

Starring: Hugh Marlowe as Ellery Queen; Santos Ortega; Ted de Corsia; Sarah Fussell; Anne Seymour; John Gibson

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The Saint: Santa Claus is No Saint (Encore) (EP4269)

Vincent Prince
Today’s Mystery: While dressed as Santa, Simon is mistaken for a man who made off with an expensive necklace. Simon spends Christmas Eve trying to catch a thief and a murderer.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Simon Templar

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Campbell’s Playhouse: There’s Always A Woman (Encore) (EP4268e)

 

Orson Welles

A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a murder case that makes life difficult for her husband.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 17, 1939

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Orson Welles; Marie Wilson; Richard Wilson; Everett Sloane; Mary Taylor; Frank Readick

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Dragnet: The Big Little Jesus (EP4268)

Today’s Mystery:

Friday and Smith search for a statue of the child Jesus stolen from a church on Christmas Eve.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1953

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Herb Vigran; Ralph Moody

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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter, Episodes Three, Four, and Five (EP4267)

Bob Bailey

Today’s Mystery:

Johnny is in a quaint Michigan town on Christmas Eve and has to find a witness to a murder before a hired killer does.

Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 21, 22, and 23, 1955

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Peggy Webber; Don Diamond; Ben Wright; Jack Kruschen; Barney Phillips; Sam Edwards; Ken Christy

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