Episode 173 - Bob's Your Uncle (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
English - June 12, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 893 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts TV & Film oldtimeradio detectives mystery old radio time Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Radio sleuthing didn’t get much sweeter than when Bob Bailey voiced Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Bailey starred as Dollar for five years, but he was never better than 1955 to 1956 when the series aired as a nightly fifteen-minute serial. In those five-part stories, Bailey gave listeners a detective who was tough, determined, funny, and who wore his heart on his sleeve. Combined with sharp direction and writing, this run of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar stands apart from other radio dramas. We’ll hear Bob Bailey in the complete five-part story “The Lansing Fraud Matter,” originally aired on CBS between December 12 and 16, 1955.