Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — 1955
66 episodes broadcast in 1955.
An audition for the serial format: a Hong Kong assignment has Johnny rattled before he even leaves.
A dying convict points Johnny toward a fortune in stolen loot (part 1 of 5).
The hunt for jewels that never resurfaced leads Johnny deeper (part 2 of 5).
A gun-toting woman and a tortured corpse complicate the search (part 3 of 5).
Johnny is shot in a Bronx theatre as the manhunt circles back to Long Island (part 4 of 5).
The stolen-loot case reaches a surprising finish (part 5 of 5).
Johnny flies to San Francisco to investigate the sinking of the freighter Molly K (part 1 of 5).
Johnny meets the captain's daughter and uncovers who really held the ship's mortgage (part 2 of 5).
A brawl with the captain and a meeting with Shanghai Lil deepen the case (part 3 of 5).
The Harbor Police turn on Johnny while a frightened, armed man runs loose (part 4 of 5).
Johnny corners the clever saboteur behind the sinking (part 5 of 5).
Johnny asks whether a man in Denver is really someone who died in Baltimore five years ago (part 1 of 5).
A murdered man's beautiful widow begs Johnny to drop the case (part 2 of 5).
Johnny flies to Denver to learn whether Frank Bowers is the dead John Reardon (part 3 of 5).
Fingerprints seem to settle it, until Johnny realizes even those can be faked (part 4 of 5).
A double murder brings the fraud case to a surprising close back in Baltimore (part 5 of 5).
Johnny heads to Mexico to run down Alvin Summers, an embezzler on the loose (part 1 of 5).
A beach, a girl, and a man with a knife turn the chase dangerous (part 2 of 5).
Johnny meets the kind of company best avoided in a dark alley (part 3 of 5).
Johnny walks straight into a trap (part 4 of 5).
Johnny finds his man the hard way (part 5 of 5).
An attempt on the life of Dan Valentine, a retired bootlegger, opens the case (part 1 of 5).
Everyone strains to keep the marked man alive, and nearly manages it (part 2 of 5).
A thirty-year-old grudge starts settling itself with bullets (part 3 of 5).
The old grudge claims more victims as the gunfire spreads (part 4 of 5).
Johnny's gun ends the Chianti brothers' vendetta (part 5 of 5).
A diamond robbery in Algiers points to a beautiful countess (part 1 of 5).
A lovely liar and the whispers of the old city cloud the trail (part 2 of 5).
An alley fight, a named killer, and a woman's shamed confession (part 3 of 5).
The net tightens toward a violent death in the Casbah (part 4 of 5).
The Algiers case comes down to a final gamble (part 5 of 5).
Johnny's case becomes a chase after a charming, elusive woman (part 1 of 5).
It costs Johnny plenty to prove just how wrong one man is (part 2 of 5).
The trail heats up and lands on a police blotter (part 3 of 5).
Johnny sees what seven hard years have done to Lorraine Broderick (part 4 of 5).
Johnny's long pursuit of Lorraine Broderick reaches its close (part 5 of 5).
A famous actress is threatened with death, and Johnny is hired to guard her (part 1 of 5).
At the theatre, a third-act surprise that wasn't in the script (part 2 of 5).
A figure from the past walks on stage and into the case (part 3 of 5).
Johnny discovers he has more reason than he knew to keep Amy alive (part 4 of 5).
A rough finish to the actress's ordeal (part 5 of 5).
Accident, suicide, or murder? Johnny weighs a death with a big question mark (part 1 of 5).
Johnny sees plenty, and learns how hard it is to believe his own eyes (part 2 of 5).
Carelessness spreads through Culver, Montana, as the case widens (part 3 of 5).
The whole town turns on Johnny as the case becomes a public feud (part 4 of 5).
The Montana case blows wide open at the finish (part 5 of 5).
Old Mrs. Cronin insists on wearing the famous Circle of Fire necklace to a wild party (part 1 of 5).
A jittery man, a fearless girl, and a stranger who strikes in the dark (part 2 of 5).
Old love and old hatred erupt in midnight violence (part 3 of 5).
A white lie and a bullet from the dark bring death in the rain (part 4 of 5).
The Circle of Fire case settles accounts for the living and the dead (part 5 of 5).
A man insured for $50,000 dies of malnutrition, and Johnny smells fraud (part 1 of 5).
For $50,000, plenty of people are willing to listen to murder (part 2 of 5).
Two thieves begin to turn on each other (part 3 of 5).
A clumsy liar takes flight (part 4 of 5).
The fraud adds up to $50,000 worth of murder (part 5 of 5).
A nightclub owner is shot dead, and his partner stands to collect (part 1 of 5).
A broken-armed old lady, a frightened girl, and a bullet in the snow (part 2 of 5).
A cold vigil, a prowling killer, and a woman who vanishes (part 3 of 5).
A child's faith in Santa and a woman's faith in nothing, at Christmas (part 4 of 5).
A showdown brings victory and then disaster (part 5 of 5).
A New York fashion house's bookkeeper looks like an obvious embezzler (part 1 of 5).
Johnny tries to understand what drove a man to steal (part 2 of 5).
The unexpected upends every theory Johnny had (part 3 of 5).
A sudden twist turns the case into a race against time (part 4 of 5).
The case closes on the costly, doomed courtship of Betsy Walker (part 5 of 5).
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