Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — 1953
56 episodes broadcast in 1953.
An ex-con's offer to recover the loot from a bank job lands Johnny in trouble.
A woman disappears just after inheriting a modest legacy, and Johnny goes looking.
A Hollywood starlet is strangled with a silk stocking, and a second may be next.
Johnny's murdered friend was a loan collector, and no one in town seems sorry.
Johnny wonders why a promising radio singer is hiding out in a Boston burlesque house.
How did an insurer write a policy on a man who then starved to death? Johnny works the fraud.
February 13, 1953
The Lancer Jewelry Matter
Johnny takes over a Denver case after the investigator working it is killed.
In Oklahoma, Johnny must decide whether a death was murder, suicide, or accident.
A young woman is murdered -- after she has apparently already killed herself.
March 9, 1953
The Madison Matter
March 10, 1953
The Birdy Baskerville Matter
A $250,000 necklace heist and a murder at sea draw Johnny aboard.
Johnny goes undercover on an oil rig to smash a loan-shark and murder ring.
A thief won't say where he hid the money, but a showgirl might.
Off the coast of Panama, Johnny is nearly thrown overboard while working a widow's case.
A four-man bank-robbery crew is caught, but the money and the truth are still loose.
April 28, 1953
San Antonio Matter
A broken-necked body in a gym leads Johnny back to an old blackmail scheme.
May 5, 1953
The Blackmail Matter
A woman is murdered in a costly fur coat, and the coat itself becomes the clue.
A man vanishes for no apparent reason, and Johnny hunts the real one.
In Toledo, Johnny trails a distinctive redheaded shoplifter who may already be dead.
In Kentucky horse country, Johnny investigates the death of a $65,000 thoroughbred.
Four witnesses saw Janice Lake kill Mr. Carter, so where is she now?
A domineering rich man is blown apart by a parcel bomb.
An aging Las Vegas beauty's $30,000 necklace is stolen, and Johnny takes the case.
July 7, 1953
The Bishop Blackmail Matter
A parcel bomb sets Johnny on the trail of whoever mailed it.
A cheap carnival prize links a woman's murder to a test pilot's secret.
A wealthy man is pushed off a cliff on a foggy night.
On a case in Haiti, Johnny comes face to face with voodoo.
Johnny works the case of a movie star's stolen jewels.
Isabel James is killed with a razor, leaving a $10,000 policy behind.
A dead crook nicknamed The Frog leaves an heir a legacy -- and a heap of trouble.
A fortune in jewels and a photo on a fishing license set Johnny hunting.
A factory owner is terrorized by arsonists who threaten his daughter's life.
September 15, 1953
The Oscar Clark Matter
A man is found dead in his own burned-out home, and Johnny sifts the ashes.
A murder up in the north woods of Michigan draws Johnny in.
A collector's supposedly priceless new painting turns out to be worth killing over.
A mob lawyer, sure his boss means to kill him, hands Johnny an envelope.
An exiled gang leader slips back from Sicily to settle a score in blood.
Johnny smashes a racket peddling fake gamma-globulin shots to parents during a polio scare.
Posing as a free-spending Texan, Johnny sets a trap for a killer.
In New York's diamond district, Johnny uncovers a costly swindle.
A firebombed social club leads Johnny back to an old protection racket.
A curious tool kit worth killing for draws a foreign spy -- and Johnny.
In Beirut, Johnny investigates the sinking of a $190,000 yacht.
December 22, 1953
The Rudy Valentine Matter
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