Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — 1956
222 episodes broadcast in 1956.
Eddie Kaylin is found dead in a burning car outside Los Angeles, with no shortage of suspects (part 1 of 5).
A tearful, lying girl and a killer shooting from the shadows (part 2 of 5).
A Latin beauty, a well-read bartender, and a dancer cross Johnny's path (part 3 of 5).
A stakeout and a manhunt close in on a gunman (part 4 of 5).
The quarry is cornered, a strange alibi cracks, and the real killer is exposed (part 5 of 5).
A costly tip from an ex-con starts Johnny after stolen goods, and someone tries to kill him (part 1 of 5).
The familiar business of murder takes a brand-new twist (part 2 of 5).
Gloria's death sends Johnny to her ex-husband Bill (part 3 of 5).
Wounded, Johnny learns that finding one killer means finding them all (part 4 of 5).
In the end, $75,000 in stolen goods isn't worth a plugged nickel (part 5 of 5).
Music, mystery, and danger open a new case (part 1 of 5).
A South Jersey swamp yields a discovery that's too good to be true (part 2 of 5).
A rigged poker game deals Johnny a losing hand (part 3 of 5).
Three musicians, and one of their stories is playing false (part 4 of 5).
The musical case ends on a genuine twist (part 5 of 5).
The death of a valuable racehorse becomes a case for Johnny (part 1 of 5).
Everything turns as wrong and dangerous as it can get (part 2 of 5).
The case turns as ugly as a body full of bullet holes (part 3 of 5).
A dead man may answer more questions than the living (part 4 of 5).
A decent man's story reaches a bittersweet close (part 5 of 5).
In Mexico, Johnny finds a woman so beautiful that men will kill for her (part 1 of 5).
A scrappy girl and a lucky break, until murder evens the score (part 2 of 5).
A lying relative, a jealous lover, and a woman who simply vanishes (part 3 of 5).
A tropical port brings romance, desire, and death (part 4 of 5).
A cornered killer strikes back in a final showdown (part 5 of 5).
A supposedly dead girl resurfaces in a case where every lie comes true (part 1 of 5).
Carefully built lies keep coming true (part 2 of 5).
February 8, 1956
The Mcclean Matter
An uncooperative doctor swears he'll never take the stand (part 4 of 5).
Mrs. McLain finally tells the truth, and the case breaks open (part 5 of 5).
Two bullets and a $100,000 payoff, but the killer isn't the one who profits (part 1 of 5).
An admired idol proves to be all too human (part 2 of 5).
The net tightens and the case blows wide open (part 3 of 5).
A tense interview ends in a sudden, dangerous attack (part 4 of 5).
Dan Parker is shot dead by the stepdaughter who took him for a burglar (part 5 of 5).
A study in firebugs -- the deadly kind (part 1 of 5).
Tony Midas turns up in the morgue (part 2 of 5).
Johnny corners an arsonist, with surprising results (part 3 of 5).
Johnny squares off against a strongman and a powerful lawyer (part 4 of 5).
A verdict is reached, in the courtroom and out of it (part 5 of 5).
William Markey drowns, taking a $75,000 claim down with him (part 1 of 5).
A weeping widow, a cursing lover, and a grim relic raised from the deep (part 2 of 5).
A photograph and a silver cup stir the dead back to life (part 3 of 5).
A lovesick kid and a court ruling blow the case wide open (part 4 of 5).
A dead man tells a tale, though not the one he was meant to (part 5 of 5).
In Vicksburg, a beautiful girl dies in Johnny's arms, still begging for help (part 1 of 5).
How do you help a dead girl? Johnny tries (part 2 of 5).
The dead girl's .38 automatic speaks again (part 3 of 5).
What the gun reveals blows the case sky high (part 4 of 5).
The evidence bears out, and the dead girl finally gets her help (part 5 of 5).
A new school burns in Clinton, Colorado, and the architect becomes the town's villain (part 1 of 5).
Johnny confronts the contractor (part 2 of 5).
The building inspector turns up with three bullets in him (part 3 of 5).
Even the sheriff threatens Johnny's life (part 4 of 5).
The town tears itself apart in two murders and a shootout (part 5 of 5).
The investigator on a sunken-ship claim is killed, and Johnny is called to San Diego (part 1 of 5).
Zanegian resorts to bribery and murder to bury the truth (part 2 of 5).
A dead man talks, and murder reaches into the Coast Guard (part 3 of 5).
Two friends help out as suspicion falls on a beautiful accomplice (part 4 of 5).
Zanegian confesses everything (part 5 of 5).
A vacation romance proves to be the prelude to murder (part 1 of 5).
A man is pushed to the point of distrusting even himself (part 2 of 5).
Johnny hears things he'd rather not, but must (part 3 of 5).
The case hits its turning point with a vengeance (part 4 of 5).
A head-spinning twist ends the case (part 5 of 5).
Johnny takes on the hunt for a notorious fugitive named Ed Julian (part 1 of 5).
April 3, 1956
The Salt City Matter
A hunch turns into action, and murder (part 4 of 5).
An unusual case involving the eccentric Laird Douglas of Heatherscote (part 1 of 5).
A decidedly canine case begins to bite (part 2 of 5).
The joke turns deadly when a killer steps in (part 3 of 5).
People and clues begin to line up (part 4 of 5).
The Heatherscote case is dealt its final hand (part 5 of 5).
A doctor boosts his life insurance to $100,000, certain he'll be murdered (part 1 of 5).
With a madman loose, even the police are overwhelmed (part 2 of 5).
The Big Lie proves as solid as green apples (part 3 of 5).
Even dead, the liar keeps lying (part 4 of 5).
Some lies have to be killed twice (part 5 of 5).
A lonely-hearts romance leads straight to the morgue (part 1 of 5).
A frightened girl and a shot in the dark, as Johnny asks whether thirteen knots made a noose (part 3 of 5).
April 26, 1956
The Lonely Hearts Matter
The search for a millionaire's missing son begins (part 1 of 5).
Johnny learns more about how a man vanished off the face of the earth (part 2 of 5).
Trouble arrives early and refuses to leave (part 3 of 5).
An ancient Greek named Callicles holds the key (part 4 of 5).
The answer lies with a 3,000-year-old Greek (part 5 of 5).
A vicious racket steals 80 mink coats and leaves a watchman near death (part 1 of 5).
Fear stalks the streets and death waits in a dirty alley (part 2 of 5).
A heartbroken girl, a bloody shirt, and a fight with a cornered man (part 3 of 5).
The police net tightens as a boy sobs in a cell and a man dies (part 4 of 5).
A cautious search ends in ambush and violence (part 5 of 5).
A spiritualist medium and a seance or two draw Johnny in (part 1 of 5).
A lovely girl upsets the best-laid plans (part 2 of 5).
Johnny learns a thing or two about the killer behind the seances (part 3 of 5).
The elusive medium finally surfaces (part 4 of 5).
A chastened girl faces heartbreak at the close (part 5 of 5).
A fabulous necklace and an equally dazzling girl open the case (part 1 of 5).
Johnny calls on Sam Costigan, a very tough customer (part 2 of 5).
A curse follows the Wendover name wherever it travels (part 3 of 5).
The old Wendover curse reasserts itself (part 4 of 5).
The jewels known as the Tears of Night come home at last (part 5 of 5).
A case built on doubts, none of them reasonable (part 1 of 5).
The dead past tries to speak in a musty morgue (part 2 of 5).
A steely old lady and a gambler force the game into the open (part 3 of 5).
The pressure peaks and the whole affair begins to crack (part 4 of 5).
The case comes home just in time (part 5 of 5).
Johnny meets a man who seems to have at least nine lives (part 1 of 5).
Life clings on stubbornly, even in a broken Bowery bum (part 2 of 5).
The would-be beneficiary proves both fascinating and dangerous (part 3 of 5).
Johnny promises that someone will pay for all this (part 4 of 5).
Old Mike may be indestructible, but Johnny nearly isn't (part 5 of 5).
Moonlight on a lonely Mexican beach turns into a killer's moon (part 1 of 5).
A great man's arrogance meets a young girl's black hatred (part 2 of 5).
The web thickens, until one trapped fly shoots his way loose (part 3 of 5).
Death makes another blind attempt (part 4 of 5).
The comedian doesn't find Johnny's conclusion the least bit funny (part 5 of 5).
Johnny chases a girl who couldn't possibly exist, until she does (part 1 of 5).
A newspaper item about a missing daughter deepens the case (part 2 of 5).
The trap is baited, and the wrong person walks in (part 3 of 5).
Once you're in on the gag, you have to play along (part 4 of 5).
There's still money on the table -- more than it would take to save a life (part 5 of 5).
Three sympathetic suspects -- a lonely girl, a decent young man, a mild-mannered father -- and one of them is a murderer (part 1 of 5).
Variations on an old theme, where you pay your money and take your choice (part 2 of 5).
Beauty is skin deep, but fear runs as deep as death (part 3 of 5).
A study in three telling reactions to murder (part 4 of 5).
The best hiding place, it turns out, is in plain view (part 5 of 5).
A worthless $3 million gold mine and blood on the desert sand (part 1 of 5).
At Lake Mojave, one of the fishermen turns out to be death itself (part 2 of 5).
The trackless desert gives up a set of tracks (part 3 of 5).
A closed case reopens with a rifle shot (part 4 of 5).
Justice arrives by strange and devious means (part 5 of 5).
A quiet, elm-shaded New England town hides a killer (part 1 of 5).
Two unaccused people -- one confessing, one denying, both strangely (part 2 of 5).
A sudden twist as the lies come thick and fast (part 3 of 5).
The net tightens and the frantic suspects turn dangerous (part 4 of 5).
One domino tips and the whole stack comes down (part 5 of 5).
A $150,000 diamond and a murdered millionaire take Johnny to Africa (part 1 of 5).
A blow to the head leaves Johnny stranded on the dock (part 2 of 5).
Johnny and the missing diamond, both lost at sea (part 3 of 5).
A man goes overboard, taking a clue with him (part 4 of 5).
The diamond is recovered at last (part 5 of 5).
A crooked police chief is murdered, and Johnny is drawn into the rackets (part 1 of 5).
An airtight alibi springs a leak (part 2 of 5).
A drunken reporter tips Johnny to who really runs the rackets (part 3 of 5).
Shorty resurfaces just as a house burns down (part 4 of 5).
The rackets case reaches its end (part 5 of 5).
A Nicaraguan maritime disaster and a widow's two claims send Johnny south (part 1 of 5).
Suspicion sprouts around Oscar, the do-everything pilot (part 2 of 5).
A dead man appears to have wrecked an airplane (part 3 of 5).
A Spaniard with a knife and a lady with a gun (part 4 of 5).
The Lanfear claims are settled at the finish (part 5 of 5).
A Venezuelan with a $250,000 policy has changed his beneficiary five times (part 1 of 5).
A murder attempt on a millionaire who moonlights as a bullfighter (part 2 of 5).
A night on the town and a stealthy search of a room (part 3 of 5).
An attack on a pier and a trick at the cable office (part 4 of 5).
Johnny pretends to leave town, and the ruse breaks the case wide open (part 5 of 5).
The search for Edward Russell leads Johnny to Crystal Lake (part 1 of 5).
A scenic lakeside cabin makes a quiet spot for murder (part 2 of 5).
A girl's lie and a padlock's truth (part 3 of 5).
One shot misses; the next finds its mark (part 4 of 5).
The payoff comes in hot lead (part 5 of 5).
A meeting with a pearl thief, and another one arranged.
Would Crane really kill to protect the family name?
A .32 headed for the incinerator, a disappearance, and a cry in the night.
A murdered pearl thief, and that gun turns up once more.
The society girl steps aside as her maid moves to the center of the case (finale).
A wealthy man's expedition takes shape amid bitter family conflict (part 1 of 5).
Johnny finds himself signed on for the expedition (part 2 of 5).
A 'wealthy' man proves otherwise as Donald slips off to Egypt (part 3 of 5).
The curse strikes -- twice (part 4 of 5).
The secret of the bones is revealed (part 5 of 5).
Johnny's late friend Ed Morgan seems to have embezzled $80,000 before he died (part 1 of 5).
The trail into a dead man's past runs through quicksand (part 2 of 5).
The missing $80,000 and a battered girl lead to a bombshell (part 3 of 5).
Johnny hunts a dead man determined to stay dead (part 4 of 5).
Fate collects its debt, and the case ends in a scream (part 5 of 5).
Someone tries to kill Harvey Stone, then turns on Johnny too (part 1 of 5).
September 18, 1956
The Imperfect Alibi Matter
Harvey is shot dead, and Alvin Gentry confesses to the murder (part 3 of 5).
An eyewitness drives the final nail into the wrong coffin (part 4 of 5).
A gambler stakes his life on his hand at the finish (part 5 of 5).
There's no Saturday rest for Johnny as a new case opens (part 1 of 5).
Byron Kane hires Johnny to investigate a maritime claim (part 2 of 5).
Darkness hides both sins and a strong man with a deadly weapon (part 3 of 5).
A routine fishing trip aboard The Lily Ann turns sinister (part 4 of 5).
The motive behind the arson and murder finally takes shape (part 5 of 5).
A $100,000 diamond theft, and the man with the clue is murdered (part 1 of 5).
At a Swiss inn, Johnny keeps a ski date with a possible murderess (part 2 of 5).
Shot at on the slopes, Johnny nearly skis off a cliff (part 3 of 5).
Bruner, the last lead to the diamonds, is murdered (part 4 of 5).
A third photograph leads to both the diamonds and the killer (part 5 of 5).
Johnny heads into the desert, prospecting for killers (part 1 of 5).
He stumbles on a hidden car, a corpse, and two remaining killers (part 2 of 5).
Primrose Camp is scared stiff and hiding plenty (part 3 of 5).
A fake rattlesnake brings a real death -- three down, one to go (part 4 of 5).
A well-aimed rock finishes the job (part 5 of 5).
A missing stockbroker and a missing $120,000 open the case (part 1 of 5).
Johnny is hired to run down Thomas Chase, who has jumped bail.
The pursuit of bail-jumper Thomas Chase presses on.
Who killed Barney Slade, and how does silent-film actress Mavis Slade fit in? (part 1 of 5)
A stagecoach ride, a beating, and a surprise witness (part 2 of 5).
A bowl of lentil soup nearly puts Johnny in the cemetery (part 3 of 5).
An audience with the Queen -- and with the killer (part 4 of 5).
A man talks too much, and it gets him killed (part 5 of 5).
The first weekly half-hour after the daily serial run ends, with a crusading figure at the center.
A man appears to be slowly poisoning his own wife.
A New Orleans antique-shop owner won't file a claim after a fire, and Johnny wants to know why.
Arson is plaguing the lumber yards of Sarasota, Florida.
A millionaire's son is killed in Asia and his wife vanishes, with good reason.
A $50,000 singing mouse named Gulliver is kidnapped, and Johnny is told to keep an eye on the cat.
A boxer's manager holds a $50,000 policy on his fighter, and Johnny investigates.
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