Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is looking forward to making amends with Betty Lewis when an unusual pattern catches his attention: a hot rod races past her home every morning, its engine backfiring at precisely the same spot. When Johnny discovers the car has a phony license plate, he suspects the noise is more than a nuisance. His investigation leads him to a dangerous scheme targeting a former attorney, but can Johnny uncover the plan before the next backfire turns deadly?

Original Radio Broadcast Date:September 6, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Forrest Lewis
• Barney Phillips
• Tom Holland

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is hired by a life insurance company to locate a missing beneficiary named Jonathan Doe, who is set to receive $50,000 from a policy belonging to a recently deceased farmer. The problem is that no one in the area seems to have ever met Jonathan Doe, and even his supposed farm contains few clues that he ever existed. As Johnny investigates, suspicion falls on the farmer’s son, who stands to inherit the money if Doe remains missing. Johnny must uncover the truth behind the mysterious beneficiary and determine why no one seems to know who he really was.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 30, 1959

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

• Virginia Gregg
• Lawrence Dobkin
• Marvin Miller
• Sam Edwards
• Judas Matthews
• Stacey Harris
• Bart Robinson

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is asked to help recover a priceless Cellini medallion stolen from the Louvre and believed to be smuggled into the United States aboard a ship carrying French wine. After traveling from Paris to San Francisco, Johnny turns to his underworld contacts for information and learns that the medallion may be hidden somewhere along the Embarcadero. His investigation takes a dangerous turn when he and Smoky Sullivan discover a murdered watchman and must locate the stolen treasure before it falls into the hands of a professional fence.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1959.

Originating from HollywoodCast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg as Smoky Sullivan

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to Paris after his underworld contact Louis de Marsac claims to know the whereabouts of the Olney diamonds, a three-quarter-million-dollar necklace stolen during its owner's recent visit to the United States. But Johnny's arrival is greeted by a ransacked apartment and a sudden assault, suggesting that recovering the jewels will mean navigating some dangerous figures in the Paris underworld.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16, 1959.

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Forrest Lewis
• G. Stanley Jones
• Tony Barrett
• Bill James
• Gus Bay
• Jack Johnstone, writer, producer, and director

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is hired to protect the Circle of Fire, a half-million-dollar diamond-and-emerald necklace belonging to former Broadway sensation Dolly Cronin, who plans to wear it while recreating the lavish parties of her youth. But with Dolly inviting friends from a past she remembers through rose-colored glasses, Johnny quickly discovers that the celebrated necklace may attract people with motives far less sentimental than hers.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 5-9, 1955

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Shirley Mitchell
• Vivi Janis
• Barbara Fuller
• Benny Rubin
• John Dehner
• Parley Baer
• Les Crutchfield, writer
• Jack Johnstone, producer and director
• Amerigo Marino, musical supervision
• Roy Rowan, announcer

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Stars: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar.

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar is summoned by his eccentric old acquaintance Alvin Peabody Cartwright, who has received a chain letter promising good fortune if he continues it—and disaster if he breaks it. Johnny is skeptical until he learns that two of Cartwright’s friends died exactly when the letter predicted, suggesting that someone may be using superstition to disguise a very real threat.

Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 2, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Howard McNear
• Paul Dubov
• Frank Gerstle
• Herb Vigran
• Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone
• Jim Matthews, announcer

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar travels to the Massachusetts coast after the niece of retired sea captain Amos Weatherby reports a threat against her uncle’s life. She believes a former fiancé with a sinister past has returned to make good on that threat, and Johnny arrives just as a powerful storm approaches the Weatherby home.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Carleton G. Young
• Ralph Moody
• James McCallion
• Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar receives an urgent call from his old friend Red Barrett, who insists that the will of a recently deceased friend has been altered. Although others dismiss Red’s suspicions, Johnny heads for Arizona and Nevada to investigate—and soon discovers that someone is willing to go to dangerous lengths to keep him from asking questions.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 19, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Virginia Gregg
• Barney Phillips
• Forrest Lewis
• Parley Baer
• Jack Moyles
• Billy Halop
• Byron Kane
• Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar welcomes an excuse to visit an old friend at a Lake Mojave fishing resort, but the vacation quickly becomes an investigation when a recently released convict is spotted using some very unusual fishing equipment. Johnny sets out to discover what the man is really searching for beneath the lake.

Radio Broadcast Date: July 12, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Cast:

• Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
• Barney Phillips
• Sam Edwards
• Bartlett Robinson
• Forrest Lewis
• Ralph Moody
• Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

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Today's Mystery: Johnny Dollar accepts an unusually lucrative assignment to locate the runaway daughter of one of the insurance company's wealthiest clients. But when he finds the missing heiress in New York, his search abruptly becomes a murder investigation in which two of her closest companions each have reason to want her dead

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 5, 1959

Originated from Hollywood

Stars:
Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar
Virginia Gregg
Les Tremayne
Herb Vigran
Alan Reed
Frank Gerstle
Jack Edwards
Jack Grimes

Written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone

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