Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar — 1957
50 episodes broadcast in 1957.
A prizefighter is marked to be murdered in the ring -- literally.
A millionaire drowns off his yacht, and Johnny's digging turns up murder and a pair of rotten schemes.
A vanished emerald and a vanished jeweler, yet a room full of junk sits untouched.
A beautiful model disappears soon after her magazine centerfold.
A kindly old fishing guide gets the last laugh from beyond the grave through his will.
$100,000 in gems vanishes from a sealed safe, and no one can say how it was opened.
February 17, 1957
The Golden Touch Matter
An original copy of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is stolen from an elderly woman.
A brand-new $75,000 bracelet vanishes in Palm Springs.
A scientist is killed and his partner blinded inside a lab bolted from the outside.
March 24, 1957
The Hollywood Matter
March 31, 1957
The Moonshine Murder Matter
In the Tennessee swamps, a simple $5,000 payout to a widow turns deadly.
Johnny is hired to recover a stolen dog -- one that can talk.
April 21, 1957
The Marley K. Matter
A baseball pitcher vanishes, and so does his wife.
A junkyard burns down and the delighted neighbors all become suspects.
A lump of ambergris insured for $20,000 goes missing, and Johnny heads South after it.
A truck loaded with copper pipe is hijacked -- driver and all.
A dead girl is claimed by two different men, each insisting he is her father.
The name of a boat is the clue to a killer, and Johnny lays out the puzzle.
A colorful Oklahoman pays his premiums in $100 bills -- all of them counterfeit.
A little old lady leaves $60,000 to her fully insured cat.
A universally loathed Shakespearean actor is murdered inside a radio station.
Held up, robbed, and stripped of his car, Johnny is left stranded in the desert.
One of only four Confederate half-dollars ever struck goes missing down South.
A larcenous old lady, her Pierce Arrow, and a four-foot statuette lead Johnny a merry chase.
Frontier Week in a sleepy western town stirs up jealousy and murder.
August 18, 1957
The Winnipesaukee Wonder Matter
A shady operator's mattress warehouse burns, and arson is the obvious question.
A playboy is insured for $200,000 without his own knowledge.
A sunken yacht, a missing captain, and a widow who isn't exactly grieving.
A brewery faces a rival ready to dynamite it out of business.
An escaped convict sends Johnny to guard a man who doesn't know he's in danger.
A silo fire on a well-connected dairyman's farm looks like more than an accident.
Cattle rustling is the least of it -- anthrax is the real threat on a big ranch.
An old woman refuses to sell her played-out mine, and it makes her a target.
Johnny's girlfriend is murdered, and Johnny himself is the prime suspect.
A concert pianist is shot, with the clues hidden in a piano and a birdcage.
A body in the river and a battered model -- Johnny hunts the connection.
Johnny's old friend Meg is suspected of murdering a rich old man in the Nevada desert.
Johnny hunts a killer who has just inherited $25,000.
A London firm writes a bizarre death-insurance policy, and Johnny finds out why.
At a home for the aged, the residents keep 'accidentally' falling down the stairs.
A hunting guide goes berserk and shoots everything in sight, himself included.
A dying man and his three thankless heirs make for a poisonous inheritance.
A Christmas tale of an old prospector dying in the desert with his faithful mule.
A restaging: a body in the river and a bruised model, and the link between them.
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