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Narrated by:
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Bob Bailey
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Old Time Radio
About this listen
Johnny Dollar was a freelance insurance investigator with an “action-packed expense account.” On radio each week from 1949 until 1962, he traveled the world for clients who would cover his expenses. From 1955 through 1956, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar ran as a popular five-a-week 15-minute serial starring Bob Bailey. Enjoy these six five-part programs.
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Fabulous Freelance
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Old Time Radio
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 69
Wherever there's a scheme afoot, radio's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is on the job to stop it! Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, picking up the ringing telephone to take on cases of double indemnity and double cross, foul weather and foul play. Bailey is the definitive Dollar - the character's wry sense of humor fits the actor like a tailor-made suit. He's a man of keen analytical skills and good nature, a man who can use his fists in a tight spot without being an obnoxious "tough guy".
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3 out of 5 stars
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more beef, less fat
- By Jim Estabrook on 12-22-22
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Let George Do It: Full Details
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
"If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me." Whatever your problem, he's the solution! George Valentine is sardonic yet sympathetic as he solves mysteries, unravels crises, and gets to the bottom of whatever's complicating the lives of his paid-up clients. Bob Bailey made his first big impression on radio audiences in this series of tightly-packed, thought-provoking thrillers! Here are 16 of his most fascinating exploits, with Virginia Gregg co-starring as Claire "Brooksie" Brooks.
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Third Man
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Orson Welles, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
He's a con man, a manipulator, and a master of every form of deception. He'll look you right in the eye and rob you blind...but you won't care, because he's one of the most fascinating men you'll ever meet! He's Harry Lime - and before he met a memorable end in The Third Man, he cut a broad swath across most of the inhabited globe!
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Johnny Dollar: Phantom Chases
- By: Johnny Dollar
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 77
This 10-hour collection features 43 digitally restored and remastered episodes, including such gems as the series only nine-part storyline, and an episode of Romance that features Bailey as an impulsive chap named Johnny in a mid-east adventure!
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
- By Carolyn on 04-04-16
By: Johnny Dollar
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Medium Rate Matters
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Edmund O'Brien, Mandel Kramer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
He's a specialist in insurance fraud and the finer points of human nature. He's insouciant, cynical, and glib...but honest when it counts. Wherever he goes, there's intrigue, excitement, and mystery! He's the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dollar is the name.
- By Chris Coyne on 05-20-23
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Gunsmoke
- Last Man
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Dodge City and frontier Kansas come to life on the limitless plain of your imagination in 20 intense western dramas. In these gritty and poignant stories, originally broadcast in 1955, making a wrong call about whether or not to trust a man could cost you your fortune…or your life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gun smoke
- By Jeff VanAntwerp on 06-22-22
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Fabulous Freelance
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Old Time Radio
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 69
Wherever there's a scheme afoot, radio's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is on the job to stop it! Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar, picking up the ringing telephone to take on cases of double indemnity and double cross, foul weather and foul play. Bailey is the definitive Dollar - the character's wry sense of humor fits the actor like a tailor-made suit. He's a man of keen analytical skills and good nature, a man who can use his fists in a tight spot without being an obnoxious "tough guy".
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3 out of 5 stars
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more beef, less fat
- By Jim Estabrook on 12-22-22
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Let George Do It: Full Details
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
"If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me." Whatever your problem, he's the solution! George Valentine is sardonic yet sympathetic as he solves mysteries, unravels crises, and gets to the bottom of whatever's complicating the lives of his paid-up clients. Bob Bailey made his first big impression on radio audiences in this series of tightly-packed, thought-provoking thrillers! Here are 16 of his most fascinating exploits, with Virginia Gregg co-starring as Claire "Brooksie" Brooks.
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Third Man
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Orson Welles, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
He's a con man, a manipulator, and a master of every form of deception. He'll look you right in the eye and rob you blind...but you won't care, because he's one of the most fascinating men you'll ever meet! He's Harry Lime - and before he met a memorable end in The Third Man, he cut a broad swath across most of the inhabited globe!
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Johnny Dollar: Phantom Chases
- By: Johnny Dollar
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 77
This 10-hour collection features 43 digitally restored and remastered episodes, including such gems as the series only nine-part storyline, and an episode of Romance that features Bailey as an impulsive chap named Johnny in a mid-east adventure!
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
- By Carolyn on 04-04-16
By: Johnny Dollar
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Medium Rate Matters
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Edmund O'Brien, Mandel Kramer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
He's a specialist in insurance fraud and the finer points of human nature. He's insouciant, cynical, and glib...but honest when it counts. Wherever he goes, there's intrigue, excitement, and mystery! He's the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dollar is the name.
- By Chris Coyne on 05-20-23
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Gunsmoke
- Last Man
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Dodge City and frontier Kansas come to life on the limitless plain of your imagination in 20 intense western dramas. In these gritty and poignant stories, originally broadcast in 1955, making a wrong call about whether or not to trust a man could cost you your fortune…or your life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gun smoke
- By Jeff VanAntwerp on 06-22-22
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Fatal Matters
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Howard McNear, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story5 out of 5 stars 79
Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar was a man of contradictions. He was tough and compassionate, sardonic and thoughtful. You never knew quite what he might do to solve a case - but you always knew he'd get it done! You also knew that he'd be supported by many of the greatest radio performers ever to haunt "Radio Row": Virginia Gregg, Howard McNear, Lurene Tuttle, Joseph Kearns, John Dehner, Stacy Harris…even Vincent Price! Bob Bailey stars as Johnny for five fascinating five-part serial adventures, and a collection of harrowing half-hour tales! Prepare the expense report!
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5 out of 5 stars
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great detective stories with a twist
- By Rick R on 09-21-19
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Confidential
- By: Jack Johnstone
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story5 out of 5 stars 57
America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator had little patience for liars and liked nothing better than females, fishing, and a free hand with an expense account. Bob Bailey's Johnny Dollar was skeptical without being cynical, sympathetic without being a sucker, and had a way of delivering a sarcastic remark with more sincerity than most detectives delivered straight talk. Join him for 10 action-packed, digitally remastered five-part serials.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As always, Bob Bailey delivers a good story
- By Mark McConnell on 01-30-17
By: Jack Johnstone
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The Many Voices of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey, Edmund O'Brien, John Lund, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar debuted in 1948 and endured for 14 years as one of the most popular programs of latter day radio drama. In fact, it became the last network drama when it ultimately signed off the air in 1962. An eminently appealing character, Dollar was pragmatic, flirtatious, and sympathetic (to a point) - better at reserving judgment than he was at restraining his impulses. This set brings you the voices of all eight men who took on the role of "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" - from the well-known to the obscure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Coronavirus 19
- By BigGame206 on 04-20-20
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Gunsmoke: The Round Up
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNeer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
In the wildness of the territories, greed lurks behind the grin of a gambler, vulnerable families meet their fates, and range wars are brewing. Outsiders come to town to start over, to start some trouble, or to die. The creak of leather, the rattle of spurs, the dry wind whistling along the dusty streets of Dodge City - that’s the world of Marshal Matt Dillon (played by William Conrad). Join him for twenty journeys into the West, with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard MacNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Round Up of Episodes
- By lwayman on 02-19-22
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Gunsmoke: Bloody Hands
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
Presented here are Western stories of unparalleled realism and uncompromising emotional complexity. Marshal Matt Dillon (William Conrad) doesn't revel in violence, but he uses it because he lives in a violent place at a violent time, where only the violent can survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gunsmoke - & Cigarette Smoke!
- By O. on 10-26-23
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Gunsmoke: Flashback
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12
Walk the streets of Dodge City with William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in 20 masterpieces of western storytelling. Dillon was not a straight-backed rider with a steely jaw. He was a man who had seen too much, a survivor of conflicts he'd rather have avoided…a man who knew only too well what errors of judgment could cost on the frontier. Parley Baer played Dillon's sidekick Chester, a seemingly naive yokel who was nevertheless as cold-blooded as Dillon when occasion demanded.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gunsmoke enticing and entertaining!!
- By lwayman on 11-17-21
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Wayward Matters
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
Johnny has a way with the ladies, but will his last date be with death? For free trips and a fat fee, Johnny Dollar descends into cases of missing money and missing men. But, what can he do when the bodies are walled up, washed up, and fallen down? When the jewels and the paintings are fake? And, when everything from trucks to trout to widows are on the loose? He'd better bring his gun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want them all.
- By c carlson on 05-01-22
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The Whistler: Skeletons in the Closet
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Joseph Kerns, Bill Forman, Old Time Radio
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the darkest reaches of the human psyche, there is no corner quite so dark as the fear of nameless, inevitable Fate. With its startling twists and its mocking laughter, Fate can take any of us at any time. We confront this fear by taking a grim satisfaction with the cruelties that Fate metes out to others. Because if it's happening to someone else, it isn't happening to us...right? The Whistler, the sneering narrator of each story, is the personification of Fate - bringing characters to their grim, well-deserved destinies with considerable panache.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Whistling in the Dark
- By Chris Coyne on 07-06-21
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The Adventures of Sam Spade
- The Final Capers
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Howard Duff, Jack Kruschen, Paul Frees, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
When Howard Duff, radio’s regular Sam Spade, was dropped from the show, Steven Dunne donned the trench coat. Finding his own brash and boyish style with the role, Dunne’s Spade was much like creator Dashiell Hammett himself - a grown-up teenager who loved a put-on, but could be depended on to be loyal and true despite his own troubles. In these digitally remastered capers, Hammett’s hard-boiled hero delves in to the domains of daytime serials, journalism, the waterfront, and international intrigue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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pretty good
- By T. Burnett on 11-14-19
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Collection 1
- By: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 15
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account." For 15 years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim.
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Gunsmoke: Dead or Alive
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: William Conrad, Parley Baer, Old Time Radio
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story5 out of 5 stars 46
By the 1956-57 season, Gunsmoke had reached the peak of its dramatic power as radio’s foremost adult western, with its powerful scripts and careful characterizations. William Conrad leads the cast as Marshal Matt Dillon, along with Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. The citizens of Dodge City, Kansas emerged as living, breathing embodiments of frontier America in radio dramas that represent the medium at its most potent. Experience 27 hard-hitting adventures from this landmark season in this collection!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful program
- By Christopher Gates on 08-07-19
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Poet of Death & Other Mysteries
- By: Jim French, Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: John Gilbert, Larry Albert, Old Time Radio
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story5 out of 5 stars 35
The game's afoot once more—in the classic radio style! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson roam the fog-shrouded streets of London in new adventures produced by Jim French, fully authorized by the Conan Doyle estate. John Gilbert stars as Holmes, with Larry Albert as Watson, in tales of international intrigue, priceless jewels, bank robberies, and beheadings. Listen in as the World's Only Consulting Detective puts his powers of deduction to the test!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another professionally produced radio show.
- By A. Booker on 07-26-23
By: Jim French, and others
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-18-22
Fun!
Good stories & love Bill Bailey as Johnny. Great listening for a bedtime story - good stories, bit of humor and no blood & gore.
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