# Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Squared Circle Matter (EP1279)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 7 Aug 2026, 31 min.

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Release Date: June 06, 2014 Johnny suspects that an insured punch drunk boxer is being set up to die by his manager who hopes to cash in on the insurance policy. Original Air Date: December 30, 1956 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net

## Transcript

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[1:45] for today's episode of Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar and again we are skipping the
[1:49] Christmas episode no lost episode, and we will definitely get to that episode around
[1:57] Christmas time, but for May, we're going to skip to December thirtieth of
[2:01] nineteen fifty six. In the day the toddle of today's episode The Squared Circle
[2:07] Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellar, Paul Kendrick, Johnny
[2:17] over at Eastern Allied Casualty remember, Oh sure, Paul, how are you
[2:21] seen any good fights? Lavely Prize Fie? That is Yeah, the championship
[2:24] bottled the stadium over in Maulville last week. Were you there? No,
[2:28] I had a miss it, but it didn't miss me. Huh. The
[2:30] minute Georgia hit the canvas in that fourth round, it cost me fifty bucks.
[2:34] Johnny, do you remember al Colornado? Are you kidding? I've watched
[2:37] that boy come up from the Golden Gloves. Well, he fought in one
[2:39] of the preliminary bouts. I know I lost on him to twenty bucks.
[2:43] Come on over, will you, and I'll tell you why the company may
[2:46] lose fifty thousand. Done. Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man
[2:58] with the Action pactickst America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense
[3:17] account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Eastern Allied Casualty Insurance Company four to
[3:23] two Spital Building, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of expenses incurred
[3:27] during my investigation of the squared Circle matter. Expense account had a one a
[3:36] dollar ten cents camp from my apartment to the offices of Eastern Allied. When
[3:39] I got upstairs into his personal cubicle, I found Paul Kendrick pacing the floor.
[3:45] Sit down, Johnny, have a drink if you want one. No,
[3:47] no thanks, Hey, looks like you're the one who could use a
[3:52] drink. What are you worried about? Don't tell me you've ben hitting the
[3:55] company till for big money to bet on the fights. Johnny, I'm worried
[3:59] about. Listen, I'm all yours. How long since you've seen al Coronado
[4:03] fight? Ooh six months? Year maybe? But before that, when he
[4:06] was working all the local arenas, you and I were present every time he
[4:10] put on the gloves, so we knew him when he had reflexes quick enough
[4:13] to well, do you remember how he'd show off by picking a fly or
[4:16] mosquito out of the air, grabbing it between his fingers without even hurting it.
[4:19] Yeah. Sure, he was no metal giant, not by a long
[4:23] shot. But he had the fastest eyes and hands I ever saw in the
[4:26] man. Right. But something has happened to him, something very wrong,
[4:29] and I think I know what it is. Listen, a few years ago,
[4:32] his manager, Ricky Malone, took out a fifty thousand dollars policy on
[4:35] him annuity. So what a lot of managers take out policies on their boys
[4:40] and then get him killed. Look Al is fighting again tomorrow night in a
[4:44] small town outside of Joplin, choppin Missouri, little place just across the state
[4:48] line. Johnny, I want you to be there. You mean has a
[4:53] sort of bodyguard. I want you to see the fight. That's all.
[4:55] See Al Coronado fight. Yeah, but this murder crack. I'm having a
[4:59] copy of the policy he made and you can pick it up at the Joplin
[5:00] Post Office General Delivery. Now, Paul, I know, I know I
[5:03] may be all wrong. This may only be a hunch without a single legitimate
[5:08] reason for suspicion. That's why I took a whole week to think it over
[5:11] before calling you. That's why I want somebody who knows AL as well as
[5:15] you and I do to look. Will you go down there and see him?
[5:18] Why? We'll pay the freight pand your expense account anything you like.
[5:21] Oh, now that's an attack, but do it, Johnny? Will you?
[5:30] I had them two another dollar ten back to my apartment a pack.
[5:34] I had them three one hundred and twenty four dollars even playing fair, and
[5:38] incidentals to Joplin by your lead, Paul. The incidentals included a new sports
[5:43] shirt loud enough to startle the whole state of Arizona, an extra pack of
[5:46] razor blades, and a new toothbrush. Also, I had them four three
[5:48] bucks flowers for the stewardess, who managed to find me an extra bottle of
[5:53] champaigne. I arrived at Joplin shortly before noon, and after checking into a
[5:57] hotel founded by some miracle, a copy of AL policy was waiting for me
[6:00] at the post office. A quick glance at that brings up item five four
[6:04] dollars and a quarter phone call. What do you mean holding out on you?
[6:09] I thought you, said, Ricky Malone took out the policy. He
[6:12] did and pays all the premiums. But the beneficiary named is Frankie Fourtina.
[6:17] Now ho see I don't know yet. Well, his address is in New
[6:20] York City. You've better look him up, will you. I've been trying
[6:23] to. But the last time FOURTEENA was at the address on the policy,
[6:26] it was a racetrack bookie joint. Oh so that's why you're worried. That's
[6:30] one reason. Well, if you learn anything about I don't let me know.
[6:32] Well, you I'm staying in the Beverly Arm Okay, Johnny, Johnny,
[6:35] Yeah, call me again, will you? After the fight tonight?
[6:40] Sure, I was tired, so I had a big lunch that had him
[6:50] six, went out to my room and slept. I overslept. It was
[6:54] nearly nine o'clock when I woke up, so I grabbed a cab that sided
[6:57] him seven. I went out to the arena in the nearby town of on
[7:00] Elbow. The five Bucks had a mate. I managed to get a seat
[7:02] a ring side and time to catch the end of the last prelimin where in
[7:09] one minute the program told me how was schedule for the main event against some
[7:12] local boy named Rafe Cummings. I've never heard of him, and I doubt
[7:16] if anybody outside of Tucson ever had. I understood why when he stepped into
[7:20] the ring, this kid looked like the rankest kind of amateur, strong,
[7:25] sure and in good condition, but comes in he almost took over his own
[7:29] size fifteen feet and it was no actor full and opponent either. How when
[7:33] he came in looked as good as ever. He gave me a quick glance
[7:36] of recognition. I'm sure he knew nothing about me except possibly my name at
[7:42] the oldening belly came out fast. All the old speed and timing were there
[7:45] and faint weave and flick out that light but punishing left, sing old pattern
[7:47] and saying, well wait a minute. Those quick left jams were only landing
[7:51] about one in four as though he touched comings only when the comes the ox
[7:57] having to walk into him, but because of his speed out took nothing but
[8:00] a few light ones on the body. He kept his face well out of
[8:01] reach. Oh yeah, his timing was perfect, but his aim was terrible.
[8:07] Every time he shot out his fist he was three four inches wide.
[8:09] It's what a funny thing happened at the end of the round when Al went
[8:13] back to his corner, and remember Raven only tapped him a few times on
[8:15] the body. When he went back to his corner and started to sit down,
[8:18] he almost missed the stool, would have if one of the seconds had
[8:20] named it under him funny. The second round got under weigh the same as
[8:26] the first owl. Was all speed, dodging, weaving, keeping his face
[8:28] out of the way. But again he wasn't hitting his march. And then
[8:33] it happened he missed Cummings. Why then practically ran into his glove, catching
[8:37] it hot on the cheek, and down he went. Why there wasn't enough
[8:41] steam behind Cummings glove to hurt it, But out took the counts he'd been
[8:46] hurt by that tap on the face. Then another thing. The second he
[8:48] was counted out, his handlers practically hauled him out of the ring and back
[8:52] to his dressing round. And believed me owl looked terrible, and his eyes
[8:54] had a strange, almost far away look, as though that little smack had
[8:58] not his Rainslow said, my seat was on the far side of the ring,
[9:01] but I elbowed my way through the crowd and back to the rower dressing
[9:05] rooms. In a hallway building at one end of the building. Al al
[9:09] Carnado, I told you on the way up the aisle, Doc, we
[9:13] don't need you the boys, all right, go on, Doc, beat
[9:16] it you hear me? Dot listen. This is Johnny Dollar, old fan
[9:20] of Al's from Hartford. I want to see him some other No, no,
[9:24] right away, come on, open up, I said some of the
[9:28] time. Don't you understand. We're pulling out of this burg and we ain't
[9:31] got time to stand around and talk. Now, look, buddy Malone's and
[9:33] name my mouths manager. Seeing when I say get out, I mean van
[9:37] moose. Now are you okay? Boy? This is Johnny Doller. Oh
[9:39] no, you duck brother? That sweet your walk? Hey yeah? Now
[9:50] good lord? Now what's the matter with you? Oh? Held, jolly
[9:54] yeah? Look at me? No, no, I mean straight at me
[9:56] here. Al all right, Jaddy, you're in bad shape. You should
[10:03] never have fought tonight. Oh that's all right. Where are your seconds?
[10:05] Your trainer, Ricky though, don't let nobody in to fight? Look out,
[10:11] can you get up off that table? Stand up and walk? Oh?
[10:13] Shore shoo, Jaddy, and come on, I'm taking you out of
[10:16] here day. Look. Look, we hide you, Ricky, He's up,
[10:20] He's got you. Bet I am Tello, Act two of Yours,
[10:41] Truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment. Each Monday through Friday evening,
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[11:03] Johnny Dollar and the Squared Circle Matter. When I came to the dressing
[11:15] room was dark and quiet. After carefully falling off the table where they'd left
[11:20] me, I groped my way to the light switch, stumbling instantly all the
[11:24] remains of the chair Ricky Malone had used off me. It was well after
[11:26] midnight, so I left by the dressing room window. The second I reached
[11:31] my hotel room and I put through a long distance call, hoping Paul Kendrick
[11:33] would be in home in bed. He was, Johnny Dollar and Paul,
[11:39] You're right, it'll be murder unless I can stop it. Hey, you
[11:43] awake? You mean El Coronado? What's happened? Johnny Plenty and listen.
[11:48] That boy is more than punch drunk. He's had a brain injury or some
[11:52] kind. I'll bet on it. That's when I was afraid. The tap
[11:54] on the face that had knocked him out to night wasn't enough to hurt a
[11:56] kitten, but a good solid blow would probably kill him. That's why protecting
[12:00] his face. But Ricky Maloney's making him keep on. Oh else, I
[12:03] just met that gentleman by the way. What he say? Did you question
[12:05] him? Before I could? He cracked me over the head with a chair.
[12:09] Where's he not? Oh? I don't know. What are you gonna
[12:11] do? See if the police can track them down. Malone said something about
[12:13] leaving town right away and keep after him. Did you read that policy carefully?
[12:18] You're kidding. I haven't had time. It's an annuity that much I
[12:20] saw beginning in three or four years. It'll pay all a nice little income
[12:24] of the rest of his life if he survives. But the beneficiary named,
[12:28] yes, Frankie Fourteina, who gets the full face value of the policy of
[12:31] al dies? Johnny, Yeah, I got a rundown on FOURTEENA. He
[12:35] said he was a boogieer one time. That was the least of his crimes.
[12:37] He has a record as long as your arm as I see it,
[12:39] he owns Al Coronado. Then you're probably thinking what I am. But Al
[12:46] hasn't been doing so well lately. He's taking a big drop in class.
[12:48] Isn't making the purses he used to? You know that? Yes, the
[12:52] ANBA keeps a complete record. So with this injury to his brain, the
[12:56] only way FOURTEENA can clean up on him is by seeing him dead. That's
[12:58] right. What about medical examinations before these fights? Ricky Malone could bribe his
[13:03] own mother, especially in some of the towns where Al has been fighting lately.
[13:07] That's possible, of course. Also, what you and I believe is
[13:09] wrong with Ali, he's one of the hardest things in the world to detect.
[13:13] Yeah, yeah, I must admit he looked great when he entered the
[13:15] ring. Okay, Paul One, things in our favor, either Al nor
[13:18] Ricky Malone knows who I am outside of being a fight fan, just so
[13:22] FOURTEENA doesn't learn different. Well, it is FOURTEENA by the way, I
[13:24] don't know, So Johnny, whatever you do, be careful. Expencer con
[13:33] Item nine three seventy for a couple of phone calls some breakfast in a taxi
[13:37] the police headquarters. I'll say this for the Champlan police when they go into
[13:41] action, they really get things done. Within less than two hours. Sergeant
[13:45] Danny Ruskin dug up all the information I want. Well, that dies into
[13:48] what Conrad I found out at the airport. Now that doesn't hurn. Thanks
[13:50] very much something, and I think it gives us the whole story. Johnny
[13:56] Alan his manager Ricky Malone, checked out of their hotel, the Raybury one
[14:00] o'clock this morning. Just the two of them ride. There was no third
[14:03] party by the name of fourteen or anything else, just the two of them.
[14:07] They caught the one forty plane for Oklahoma City and there they bought tickets
[14:11] Rodingham to Monterey, Mexico, Mexico. How soon can I get a plane
[14:16] going down there? I told you I got to save that guy's life,
[14:18] all right, Look in Monterey. Look up Sergeant Romilia Garcia, Main Homicide
[14:22] Division. You mentioned my name. He'll give you anything you want. Go
[14:24] ahead, Now, what about that plane? The Dilon plane connections turned out
[14:37] to be bad. The best time I could make was by way of out
[14:39] passing rightside Santa one hundred and twenty seven dollars including incidentals. I finally pulled
[14:45] in the Monterey shortly after eight pm. I parked my bag at the airport
[14:48] taxiing into town Adam eleven. I went straight to main headquarters of the Policia
[14:50] are Sagian Romdio Garcia was off Jordan and you had gone to the fights.
[14:56] I had them twelve four dollars American for a fast taxi ride at the Plaza
[14:58] del fist Cups or whatever they call it. Yeah, for rightem thirteen five
[15:03] bucks. I had the sergeant pages over the PA system. After two or
[15:07] three minutes, a short, stocky, important looking figure and police uniforms stood
[15:09] up to the door and you're Johnny Dollar And that's right, sergeant, how
[15:13] are you Americanos? Now? What is so important? I'm goost leave the
[15:18] assl and fights to talk with you. Huh the possible murder of an American
[15:20] fighter right here in your own ring. So what is that to be excited
[15:24] about something that happens all the time. Is because the Mexican fighter is more
[15:30] better than the Americano fighter. So if that is all it is. Pultimately,
[15:33] Sergeant Danny Ruskin at the job Donny. Why do you not say so
[15:39] at the beginning? Well, you didn't give me much of a chance.
[15:41] I is in my good friend, Sergeant Danny. This is too long ifc
[15:45] here? Yeah, well what still in man, Sergeant Danny? When I
[15:48] have trouble with one of our Mexican nationals who escape across the border and go
[15:52] all the way to Missouri Joplin, is Sergeant Danny? Who? But you
[15:56] have a problem man? Yeah? A fighter name of alcohol, not a
[16:00] Coronado. Oh but of course tomorrow night he is fighting here and he will
[16:06] lose. Why do you say that? Come look here and the what you
[16:11] call a billboard a picture of the man he is to fight. So el
[16:15] toro negro. It sounds more like the name of a ball in him.
[16:19] Oh see big man? Is he not? There's this picture realm two hundred
[16:26] and forty pounds in you. But now Corona the only weighs in a one
[16:29] eighty one. See el too, big man is singing a dollar. He
[16:33] is a killer, our best three men. He's knocked out of the ring,
[16:37] but nobody heard, seems so. No wonder you worried, Sagan,
[16:41] unless you when I can stop at that won't be a fight tomorrow night.
[16:45] It'll be a premeditated, cold blooded killing. Oh so I showed Garcia my
[16:56] potentials, then told him what I knew and what I suspected I have proof
[17:00] of. They say, or to start what you call an international situation.
[17:04] You are not now in your own country, you know. Still he agreed
[17:10] to cooperate. First thing, of course, was to locate out and this
[17:12] manager in this city of nearly two hundred thousand. That could be pretty rough,
[17:17] but he said he tried. He drove me by the airport to pick
[17:19] up my bag into a hotel and there is the bell hop unlocked the door
[17:22] of my room. I got a wheel break the next door down the hall
[17:26] open there? Hey kid, how'd you like the Greg meph for glass and
[17:30] warm milk? Now al Coronado? Oh hi, hey boy, just putting
[17:36] my bags inside and leaves the door open. He yeah, are you alone?
[17:41] Sure? Hey? You? Johnny? At you? Yeah, that's
[17:47] right, Johnny, And I want to talk to you. I used to
[17:48] see you excide all the time up and hard for that. You saw me
[17:52] and Jaffain too, Only you don't remember where's Ricky Malone? Your manager?
[17:59] Oh? He says, how to go meet somebody. He's always going out.
[18:03] Look al, I'm an insurance investigator. Oh oh, I got some
[18:08] as shirts. Yeah, one more fight than somebody's gonna collect it. Uh
[18:12] No, Johnny, that's my retiring money. The only one who'll retire on
[18:18] it is Frankie Fourteina. Hey, Frankie, he's my owner. You know,
[18:25] Hey, who takes all the aspin around here? Me? I get
[18:30] a lot of headaches all the time. But maybe that's why I am been
[18:33] hitting so good lately. Yeah, here, can's this bottle? Hey?
[18:40] Uh now, look what you did? No, no, well you look
[18:42] what you did. You missed that bottle by three inches for the same reason
[18:48] you haven't been hitting. Well, why you have these headaches. I'll give
[18:52] it to you straight. You've had a brain injury. Out One good wallop
[18:56] on that headle, kid, and that's just what Ricky and fourteen want.
[19:00] No, Ricky always says to keep my head protected. So you must be
[19:04] wrong, am I? Whoa? Ricky's good to me? Why you Numbskully's
[19:08] trying to get you killed? Johnny, you are wrong. You know the
[19:12] man you're up against tomorrow night, Well I know his name. Well,
[19:17] he's the one schedule to finish you off good. I don't believe that.
[19:22] And listen, you're gonna believe it now? Was it to here? Who
[19:27] are you gonna call? Hello? This is an emergency. Get me,
[19:30] Sergeant Romano. You gotta see at Central Police Headquarters, the cops, that's
[19:33] right, al and a doctor. Uh No, Ricky says, to stay
[19:37] away from doctors. All they do. All they do is stop you from
[19:40] ever fighting again. And I would make you worth just fifty thousand dollars less
[19:44] to Frankie. Sergeant Johnny Dollar. I found out hotel room right next to
[19:48] mine, room nine to fifteen. Bring a doctor, a brain specialist if
[19:51] you can, even if you have to drag him out of bed. Oh.
[19:53] Look, we'll fight the international situation when we come to it. You
[19:56] get a doctor up here, you hang up or I'll blow your head off.
[20:03] Well, mister FOURTEENA I first, kim Ricky Sure, boys East quan
[20:11] Ah. I hate to shoot an an armed man, Dollar, but if
[20:15] you make one phony move so you know who I am. Ricky here may
[20:19] be stupid in some ways, but he had sense enough to call me from
[20:22] Joplin after you broke in on him there finding out what you're up to.
[20:26] Wasn't difficult. Finding out what you're up to was very toughy the FOURTEENA.
[20:30] But it's all over, not for me, Dollar, That's where you're wrong.
[20:33] That phone call I made was to the police, know, to central
[20:37] headquarters. That's over three miles from here. By the time your sergeant finds
[20:40] a doctor and gets here, you will be dead and I will be gone.
[20:42] Have you forgotten that you have a bordered across fourteen times? Stupid Frankie
[20:48] Fourteina has never been here, has never been even in Mexico because my tourist
[20:52] god reads Charles Edward Smith. Since the next plane leaves for the States in
[20:56] about twenty minutes, Ricky, Yeah, boys, I think mister Dollar had
[21:02] better have an accident fall out of the window perhaps, And I wait a
[21:07] minute, I mean listen to me alone. I had two reasons for coming
[21:11] down here, to see if you were right about Dollar, and to make
[21:14] sure of that fight tomorrow. You've been stalling with al. You've taken too
[21:18] long. The heat is on up north. I need the dough. I
[21:22] told you boys that El Toro will do it. Tomuch. I'll shut up
[21:25] and look if you take care of Dollar what about me. Maybe you can
[21:30] get back to the States, but me with Dollar laying dead here, and
[21:33] if al Al won't talk, you won't either. Thank you. Dollar has
[21:40] given us a perfect setup. He came here to Al's room, you found
[21:42] him here, You had a fight. Dollar ends up in the street below.
[21:48] But what happens to me? And I always taken care of you in
[21:51] the past when you were working for me, you know what will happen if
[21:55] you ever try to cross it. No, all right, all right,
[21:57] I have contacts down here. I have lawyers, good ones. It's going
[22:02] to be self defense, pure and simple, like what if el I told
[22:06] you before. Ricky, you've taken too long with him. While I hold
[22:11] this gun, You're going to take care of Al two the way you should
[22:14] have a long long time ago in his fights. No, listen to me,
[22:18] frank you listen. You do this whole thing just as deep as I
[22:22] have, and deeper because you're the one who's kept out fighting. You've paid
[22:25] off all those phony medicals. You set him up for this El Toro.
[22:27] Tomorrow night, you'll do it, Ricky. No, then I'll use the
[22:33] gun and all three of your Frankie, am I. It will still look
[22:37] like a fight between you and Ricky. I'll just happen to get hit accidentally
[22:42] by the gun that will be found beside your body. Boss, Boss,
[22:47] I'll do it. You bet. You will do anything you say if you
[22:52] just help me get out of it. Okay, Okay, go ahead.
[22:59] Dollar is first, brother. If you think it's gonna be easy, either
[23:02] the window or this gun. Dollar, So far as you're concerned, I
[23:04] don't care which go on, Ricky. Just remember your own life depends on
[23:10] it, you bet, Jerdy? Will you the window off? Ricky?
[23:17] The window? I said, remember your life, Ricky? All right?
[23:29] Fourteen So you have got a gun? Oh yeah, Jerry, I I
[23:37] hit him season your dollar with one very fine clean left hook. Well,
[23:42] fourteen was watching you and the unfortunate Ricky. Yeah, you got here a
[23:48] little late, Garcie, you see, But tell mesn you are what makes
[23:52] you think this al Coronado has lost his punch expense account Item thirteen, one
[24:02] hundred dollars legal expense, mainly a deposition for a lawyer to take the court
[24:06] just down. Garcia got me on a having to stay a Monterey for a
[24:07] hearing. I will never know what he did, Es Brown. Coronado.
[24:11] I suggest the company makes some adjustment in his policy that will permit paying his
[24:15] annuities immediately. And why not? The company should have investigated more thoroughly before
[24:19] issuing this policy anyway, And if it doesn't show a little heart, but
[24:23] I'm sure it will. Adam fourteen two hundred and twenty four to fifty hotel
[24:27] and incidentals and transportation back to Hartred expense account total four ninety one twenty Yours
[24:33] truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here is our star to tell you about next
[24:49] week's story. Next week, a fast trip to the West Coast to an
[24:52] impossible case involving an impossible man. Join us, won't you? Yours truly,
[25:03] Yours truly Johnny Dollar, is starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood.
[25:07] It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote tonight's story.
[25:11] Heard in our cast were Harry Bartel, Herbellus, Victor Perrin, Jack Krusian,
[25:15] Les Tremaine, and Lawrence Dobkin. Musical supervision is by Amerigo Marino.
[25:21] Be sure to join us next week, same time in station or another exciting
[25:25] story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS
[25:30] News, to be followed over most of these same stations by the FBI.
[25:33] In Peace and War, Dan Cumberly speaking, welcome back, Well, happy
[26:51] mean to find the guy that you're looking for in the same hotel you're staying
[26:56] in. That ends to be one of those things that you have to when
[27:00] you only have twenty five minutes to tell your story. But I will say
[27:03] Johnstone's definitely showing some improvement. While Johnstone at times has indulged in having supersonic
[27:11] police officers, he makes things far more believable here with Martinez. While Martina's
[27:17] got there very quickly, it wasn't impossible, after all. It's the way
[27:22] Johnny had to hang up quickly. Probably include martinaz in that something was going
[27:27] on and he wasn't going to bother getting a doctor. He was going to
[27:32] make sure that Johnny Dollar didn't need a corner. Well, now we turn
[27:37] to our listener comments and feedback, and William emails in and he writes,
[27:45] well, I'm sad to see the end of the serialized format of Johnny Dollar
[27:49] and appreciate many of the stories presented Therein I will say the format suffered from
[27:53] one flaw that got annoyed the device of Johnny retelling the events of the previous
[27:59] episodes other characters like police lieutenants. It seems a lot of time was spent
[28:03] every day rehashing the plot in order to catch the audience up. By comparison,
[28:08] the serialized OTR, Superman shows seem to do a better job of quickly
[28:12] recapping previous episodes without getting too bogged down in details, and they were able
[28:18] to recap through narration instead of the device of characters reciting what they already knew.
[28:23] To be fair, maybe Superman's plots weren't as complicated as Johnny dollars well.
[28:27] I will say that I have actually heard quite a few episodes of Superman
[28:33] where Clark Kent will sit down and will actually tell characters what they said,
[28:37] Chief you yourself said, really just to remind the audience of what the chief
[28:44] said. You told you know, you said this, and we decided this,
[28:48] you know. So there would be those sort of contrivances. That is
[28:52] one of the trade offs with serialized stories. I will say that sometimes Johnny
[29:00] A. Dollar managed to do it cleverly by not recapping the plot to someone
[29:07] who already knew, you know. For example, a new police lieutenant.
[29:11] Well, it all started in New Orleans, and I tended to think they
[29:17] were overall a little bit more clever in how they did it. Beginning any
[29:21] story with two or three minutes of backstory can also be a challenge too,
[29:26] particularly told by a narrator. There were a few times where I did find
[29:30] myself shaking my head, but still I prefer the theorialized format and I'll definitely
[29:37] missed those because they provided so much more complex stories. But thanks so much
[29:41] for the email, Liiam Philip, comments on Facebook and joining the shows,
[29:47] especially yours tweely Johnny Dollar. Finally, we have a new review of the
[29:52] app over on Amazon. Susan writes the best old timer radio podcast available bar
[30:00] none. Why is this one the best? There are a number of reasons,
[30:04] but it all starts with the host, Adam Graham. He's taking the
[30:07] time not only in selecting the series to run, but he's also researched the
[30:11] backgrounds of the shows and the stars and presents them like an old friend talking
[30:15] to you about a subject that he truly loves. Many others might play the
[30:18] show, but do they play them in the order they first aired? Adam
[30:21] does do the others clean up the old recordings and make them sound good for
[30:26] seventy year old records. Adam does try this podcast. If you love old
[30:30] time radio detectives or film more as much as I do, this will become
[30:33] the podcast that you will look forward to every day. Well, thanks so
[30:37] much for the comments, Susan. I have to say that on the cleaning
[30:41] up, any improvement of the quality of the recordings from what I have found
[30:47] online, we can thank Andrew Ryns at the Old Time Radio Western Show at
[30:53] Otrwesterns dot com. All right, well, thanks much for all your comments
[31:00] and feedback. We will be back with you tomorrow for Police Headquarters and then
[31:06] join us next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller. In
[31:11] the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net,
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