# Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Big Scoop Matter (EP1255)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 29 May 2026, 33 min.

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Release Date: May 09, 2014 When a reporter friend is killed while investigating a gambling syndicate, Johnny investigates. Original Air Date: November 11, 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

[0:28] Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
[0:34] is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, send it
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[0:49] Slash Radio Detectives. Nine days after the final episode of the Yours Truly Johnny
[0:56] Dollar Serials, the first of the new thirty minute episode starring Bob Bailey aired
[1:03] so here from November eleventh of nineteen fifty six. It's the big scoop matter
[1:10] from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar and Joel mcnap Northeaster. Johnny,
[1:19] Oh, hi, Joe, what's up at the moment? My blood
[1:21] pressure? Too much work, no prospect of having to payoff on a hundred
[1:26] thousand dollars life insurance policy. Oh fella, I think you know Johnny hard
[1:30] Wesley, Oh sure, been a parl of mine for years. Reporter.
[1:34] Yeah, apparently he's working on the story right now that somebody doesn't want him
[1:38] to report. What do you mean? Night before last he got beat up
[1:41] in an alley yesterday car made it pass at him at high speed. What
[1:44] about today it's early at Johnny. Oh yeah, sure, Well let's hope
[1:49] it's not too late. Bob Bailey in the exciting Jews of the Man with
[2:00] the action packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Oh it's truly Johnny
[2:07] Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northeast Indemnity Affiliates,
[2:24] Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
[2:30] the Big Scoop matter expense account at a one eighteen dollars and forty cents transportation
[2:37] and incidentals to New York City. I called Art Wesley's paper. He wasn't
[2:40] in and nobody seemed to know where he was. Then I remembered a small
[2:45] bar called Tony's over on Third Avenue. I took a cab that's had him
[2:47] two a dollar and a quarter and found him in a corner booth. Sorry,
[2:51] Johnny, no bodyguard. The informance I'm working with a takeoff fast to
[2:54] the spotted one. No informants, no story, an insurance policy of paper
[3:00] took out on you. Who's the beneficiary? A dear departed wife Joe departed.
[3:05] I split up a couple of months ago. Oh, I'm sorry to
[3:07] hear that we're living in two different worlds. I wanted a home and family.
[3:12] She wanted a trip to the moon every night. Where is she now
[3:15] knows? On her way to the moon. I guess, hey, look
[3:20] this story you're working on, Irony. It's hot, Johnny, and big,
[3:23] real big, a national gambling syndicate and run by a guy right here
[3:27] in New York who I'm getting close, but I'm not sure yet. When
[3:30] I am then outcome my articles? What's this guy gonna do when you're pushing
[3:34] me to a corner. Look, I'm worried about you. Look, Johnny,
[3:37] I'm not as foolish as you think. I've got his name written down
[3:38] and put in a safe deposit box with what evidence I got. That's my
[3:42] real insurance. Alright, Look, we've been friends a long time. I'm
[3:46] not gonna let you do this alone. Sorry, Johnny, I gotta go
[3:49] it alone. Since I've gotten nowhere with irone, I decided to try his
[4:00] wife, john even though they were separated. I found her in an apartment
[4:03] on East sixty eighth, But she was hardly what you'd call cooperative. Look,
[4:09] mister Dowarry, so you're a friend of Arts at the moment, I'm
[4:12] not, missus Wesley. Your marriage with Artist none of my business. But
[4:17] that insurance policy as Paper took out on him is. And incidentally you're still
[4:21] a beneficiary, so he could be in danger. Those articles he's writing,
[4:27] why doesn't he drop it? Oh? Look, you know Art better than
[4:30] that. Then what am I supposed to do about it? That story is
[4:32] his business. How I feel about things is my business. And come to
[4:36] think of it, I can't see that either of those things is your business.
[4:42] It am three a tolerated cam fair the police headquarters in the office of
[4:45] my old friend, Detective Lieutenant Rostelli. Sure, sure, I know about
[4:48] those attempts on Art's life. So I talked to him and got nowhere.
[4:51] He told me the stories about a national gambling synding this morning, told me
[4:56] supposedly the big boss is here in New York. Now, what are you
[4:58] going to do about it? Look, the minute Art it's thinking he's got
[5:00] to hit the jackpad all by himself and lets us in on it. We'll
[5:02] give him all the protection, Lieutenant of Stelly. Yeah, yeah, just
[5:10] a minute, it's for you Johnny's nice Hello Art Wesley, Johnny. They
[5:15] told me at your hotel where to reach you. Anything new. I'm leaving
[5:17] town for a few hours. This could be a Johnny to light, could
[5:19] be the jackpot. Well, listen, let me go with you. Sorry,
[5:23] I gotta go along. It's part of the deal, all right.
[5:25] It could be a trap. I could take care of myself. Colly when
[5:27] I get back, wish me luck. Well wait, alright, alright.
[5:36] I had him for a dollarrady cab to Arts apartment, where I persuaded the
[5:40] manager to let me in. I was looking for anything that would give me
[5:43] a lead. Then near the phone, on a scratch pad, I found
[5:46] where he'd written the word Watika several times. Sure, Lake Watica upstate Art
[5:50] had a lodge there. I had him five twenty five dollars even for a
[5:55] rented car. It was a three hour drive to Lake Watika, which was
[5:58] bad enough. At the top it off, it started to rain and rain
[6:01] hard. When I finally got to the highway turn off, the side road
[6:10] to the lake was a mass of mud. Then I got two quick breaks.
[6:14] It stopped raining, and I spotted the six mile road into watch Place
[6:19] half an hour further on, I saw a light Heart's car was parked at
[6:29] one side, and the front door of the launch is wide open. When
[6:31] I got to it, I saw why Ard was lying in the doorway.
[6:38] Yeah, he was the one who wanted to hit the jackpot. But you
[6:42] can't hit the jackpot with a slug, particularly when that slug is right between
[6:46] your eyes. I drove to the Sheriff's office and reported Sheriff Tompkins and his
[6:58] boys took over, but in the darkness and the month, they can only
[7:01] make a routine check. He asked me to be at the lodge the next
[7:04] morning, so I did. The buddy was right here in the doorway,
[7:10] so yeah, Sheriff, I didn't move it, and Wesley probably got shot
[7:15] when he answered the door by somebody standing out there on the ground because of
[7:19] that bullet hole on the roof. Yeah, right over that shelf, it's
[7:24] stuck with canned goods, sugar, salt, and the like. Apparently he
[7:28] used his place regular Yeah, he used to do some of his writing here.
[7:30] Were you able to determine time of death? Corner says between ten thirty
[7:35] and eleven last night? What time did you about half an hour after the
[7:40] rain stopped. I'd say quarter to twelve, means it was still raining a
[7:45] good half hour after the killing. No wonder we found no tracks. Hey,
[7:48] look, Sheriff, I'd was working on a hot story about a national
[7:51] gambling syndicate. Could be that he found out who the boss was last night
[7:56] the hard way. Oh, then you think the killer was from out of
[8:01] town, maybe New York? Yeah? Yeah, Now where would he stay?
[8:05] Is there a hotel around here, Lake Watika, just outside the village,
[8:09] about six mile from here, Sheriff, I'll check it out. The
[8:16] guests here at the end, mister Dollar, But we have only two who
[8:20] checked in yesterday. It's the off season, of course. Yeah, clerk,
[8:22] who are they? Well, mister Cooper yesterday afternoon and mister Buckley around
[8:28] dark. Huh, they're still here. Mister Cooper's sitting right out there on
[8:31] the terrace. But mister Buckley paid in advance and left quite early this morning.
[8:35] I see. Did Buckley give any reason for stopping here? He said
[8:39] he was a traveling man and didn't like to drive in the ring. Okay,
[8:45] okay, I'd like you to write down a description of him. I'll
[8:46] pick it up on the way out. Oh, I'll be glad do sir.
[8:56] Hi, Oh, good morning, enjoying scenery. Yes, Sadan,
[9:01] won't you sure? Thanks? My name's Dollarryan's Cooper. You just check in.
[9:09] I'll just drop by now. I came yesterday. A pretty up here
[9:15] this time of year, Yes, it certainly is. I really enjoyed places
[9:18] like this in the off season. It's nice change. Too bad the weather
[9:24] hasn't been better. Huh rain storm last night? Oh, I enjoyed that
[9:28] too. You were out in it? Oh no, no, no,
[9:35] I enjoyed it the way the storm should be enjoyed, front of the fireplace
[9:37] in my cottage with a drink and a good book. No, mister dollar,
[9:41] I stayed in last night, and that was that. I picked up
[9:48] the description of the other guests, Buckley from the clerk and gave it the
[9:52] sheriff Tompkins, who got out a bullet. Then I drove back to New
[9:56] York City, turned in my Reddit car and took a cab. That's it.
[9:58] I'm six a dollars seventy own Wesley's apartment. Yes, they notified me
[10:03] this morning about arts death. I don't know what to say. What is
[10:09] there to say? Good question? Missus Wesley. Only he hadn't been so
[10:13] stubborn, If only he'd given up that story about the gambling syndicator whatever it
[10:18] was. Yeah, you were, you figure somebody in the syndicate killed him.
[10:24] Well, of course, missus Wesley. Did you know Art had gone
[10:28] on up to the lodge at Lake Watika? No, mister Dollar, I'm
[10:35] rather tired. One more thing. Did you go out last night? No?
[10:41] It was raining. I stayed here in the apartment all evening, all
[10:46] evening. I see, well, thanks, missus Wesley. Maybe I was
[10:54] imagining, but it seemed to me. John Wesley hesitated just a little before
[10:58] telling me she hadn't been out her apartment last night, and if she had
[11:01] gone to Lake Watika. I checked the basement garage. Her car was clean,
[11:07] too clean. I had them seven five dollars to the garage attendant for
[11:09] some very interesting information. John Wesley had ordered her car washed first thing this
[11:15] morning. Why because the wheels were covered with mud from last night. Act
[11:37] two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment, better
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[12:05] nine East fortieth Street, New York sixteen, New York. Now,
[12:11] Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the Big Scoop matter.
[12:22] I tell you I didn't leave this apartment last night. Your car says differently,
[12:26] Joan. You had it washed today because it was all muddy. And
[12:28] the reason it was muddy was because you had it out in the rain last
[12:31] night. Another thing, You told me you didn't know Art had gone to
[12:35] the lodge. You hadn't heard from him, But the switchboard operator told me
[12:39] you had a call from him yesterday. Now, why else would he call
[12:43] you except to tell you where he was going? Well, how about it,
[12:46] Joan? All right, Art did call me yesterday and told me he
[12:52] was going to Lake Watka. And how about last night? Yes, I
[12:56] went out, but not to Lake Watika. Art wouldn't give you a divorce
[12:58] by killing him. That's your freedom. In a hundred thousand bucks, I
[13:01] didn't kill Art. I didn't go up there last night. And where did
[13:03] you go? Might as well know the reason I wanted a divorce from Art
[13:11] was because I found someone else. Oh that's where I went for a few
[13:16] minutes last evening. Why did you lie about the phone call from Art yesterday?
[13:20] Oh? No, I don't know. I was confused. I was.
[13:24] I was afraid it would look bad for me if it came out that
[13:26] I knew I had gone up there. It doesn't look good for you this
[13:28] way. Believe me, Johnny, I'm telling the truth. Oh is this
[13:31] fellow you're interested in? I don't see why he was. His name is
[13:35] Ted Nash. You have to talk to him. I sure will, and
[13:41] right now. But I was wrong about talking to Ted Nash right now.
[13:48] I called his apartment and got no answer. I'd a'm nine hundred dollars sixty
[13:52] care for the police headquarters in the office of Detective Lieutenant Rostellio. You forget
[13:56] this guy. Nash and Joan Wesley could have killed Art and use a gambling
[14:01] syndicate thread as a cover. It's a possibility, Lieutenant. Well, I'll
[14:03] see what I can find out about Nash. How'd you do it? Lake
[14:07] Patika. Two guests checked in the day of the killing. One a man
[14:09] named Buckley. He left early this morning. Sheriff Tompkins has a pullet nod
[14:13] on him. A fellow named Cooper who apparently likes to go places in the
[14:18] off season. Nothing to tie him in, Particularly Cooper. I had to
[14:22] rumble some time ago that a guy named Cooper was involved in that gambling Sentia
[14:26] troubles. We got no proof. Hey, wait a minute, what's the
[14:30] matter. I told me he'd put the name of the man he was after
[14:33] in a safe deposit box. If we could find the key to that box,
[14:37] how about arts apartment. Let's take a look. So we looked,
[14:43] and we found the key tucked away in the disk, but only a number
[14:46] on it, nothing to tell where it was located. I gave it to
[14:50] Lieutenant Estelle, and he promised to check every bank in town if necessary,
[14:54] while I went on back to Lake Watika to see if the man named Cooper
[14:56] at the end was the same one Rostelly told me about. Got there after
[15:00] a frantay three hour drive. I found him comfortably sitting by the fireplace.
[15:05] Oh, mister dollar, isn't it Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Cooper,
[15:11] I'm going to get right to the points. You told me you came
[15:16] up here to enjoy the scenery. Yes, that's fine. Why the man
[15:20] who was killed last night, I'd Wesley. He was trying to expose a
[15:24] national gambling syndicate. Oh that's very interesting. So so I know a police
[15:30] detective in New York who thinks you're a member of that syndicate. Mister Dollar,
[15:35] that's very serious charge. I presume you have proof? Well, no
[15:43] proof. Well, in that case, I don't think there's anywhere long distance
[15:48] call for you. You can take it on that phone right beside you.
[15:50] Thanks, clerk, Johnny Dollar in New York. Johnny, my lieutenant,
[15:56] you locate that, Yeah, the same deposit box, and we found the
[16:00] name of the man Art Wesley was closing in on. It's cold. Thanks
[16:03] very much. Well, Cooper, you want a proof, We've got it.
[16:07] Evidence that ties you in with the syndicate. Clerk, Well, this
[16:10] is ridiculous. Let me tell you the facts about this thing. Is something
[16:14] the matter? Mister You get Sheriff Tompkins on the phone, Clerk, tell
[16:17] him I've got Art Wesley's killer here, you mean, mister Cooper. Oh
[16:19] wait a minute, Now, look, Dollar, if you'd get your facts
[16:22] straight, you drop this silly notion of yours. What kind of facts?
[16:26] Cooper? What time was Wesley killed? Between ten thirty and eleven last night?
[16:30] But mister Dollar, mister Wesley's place is some six miles from here,
[16:34] that's right? Why, well, then, mister Cooper couldn't have killed him?
[16:38] What do you mean last night? I took a drink to mister Cooper's
[16:41] cottage here at the inn. What time around twenty to eleven? And I
[16:47] chatted with him for at least fifteen minutes. Are you sure about that?
[16:52] Oh? Quite sure? Well, mister Dollar, I'll buy your drink.
[17:00] Some Coopers strolled back to the bar with a satisfied smirk on his face.
[17:07] So the one man who had to be Art's killer couldn't have killed him.
[17:12] I called the clerk again and had him repeat his story in detail. If
[17:17] you recall it rained heavily last night, mister Dollar, Yes, yes,
[17:19] I drove through it on my way up here. Well, I was making
[17:22] the rounds of the inn, checking windows things like that. When the house
[17:26] phone rang. It was mister Cooper calling from his cottage. He wanted to
[17:30] drink. You say that was a twenty to eleven. Yes, I always
[17:33] jot down the time when I am called away from the desk, All right,
[17:37] go on, go on. Well, when I got to miss Cooper's
[17:38] cottage, he was sitting in the living room in front of the fire with
[17:41] the book. We chatted a while, and then when I returned here to
[17:45] the desk, I jotted down the time again, ten fifty five. Well
[17:52] that doesn't what do you mean, Oh, it's a good twenty minute drive
[17:57] from here to art Wesley's lodge. If he was killed between ten thirty and
[18:02] eleven and Cooper was here at that time, he couldn't have done it.
[18:07] Well, I'm sorry, but the facts are facts. Oh excuse me,
[18:14] Lake what he gets in? Yes, just a moment, Cheff Tompkins,
[18:19] mister donnad Oh thanks, Hi, sheriff. Thought you ought to know son.
[18:23] Remember that man Buckley we were looking forward? Yeah, sure, the
[18:26] other guest at the end. We picked him up. I've been questioning him
[18:30] for now any luck, No, sir, he's just a traveling salesman who
[18:33] stayed at the inn because he didn't want to drive in the rain. You
[18:37] sure. Buckley swears he doesn't even know Cooper just between you and me,
[18:42] Johnny, I think we got the wrong fellow. No place again. I
[18:49] decided to start all over, got into my car and drove to Ard Wesley's
[18:52] place. Nothing was changed. I remember the trip I'd made the night he
[18:57] was killed. How would rain until about half an hour before I arrived.
[19:03] How I'd found him lying in the open doorway, a bullet hole in his
[19:04] head. Yeah, and the hole in the ceiling over the shelf of provisions
[19:08] marking the path of the bullets. It was there, So were the provisions.
[19:12] Canned food, mustard, sugar, package of crackers. There was some
[19:18] wait a minute, sugar the sugar bowl. I stared at it for a
[19:25] moment. I remembered a couple of things the room clerk at the inn had
[19:29] told me, and suddenly the whole deal slid neatly and quietly into place.
[19:36] I drove back to the inn fast. Cooper's cottage was empty, so I
[19:40] went inside to the bedroom and took a look around. Then I spotted one
[19:42] of the pictures on the wall, a little out of place. I looked
[19:45] behind it. Yeah, just what I expected. Outside, I found Cooper
[19:52] sitting on the terrace in front of the main building, I slid into a
[19:55] chair across from Wow, mister Dollar, what fantastic crime you're going to accuse
[20:00] me of today, Cooper, I got a one track mine and it's still
[20:04] stuck on murder. Oh oh, look, Dollar, We've been over this
[20:07] before, and personally I find it quite boring, so much so that it's
[20:11] interfering with my vacation here. That's too bad, Yes it is, so
[20:15] I'm leaving this evening. I don't think so, Cooper. Oh, come
[20:18] now, i'd Wesley was trying to expose a figure and a gambling syndicate.
[20:22] You, that's a matter of conjecture. You had to stop him for keeps.
[20:26] Oh look Dollar, the time of Art Wesley's death has been established is
[20:30] between ten thirty and eleven last night. That's right between ten thirty and eleven
[20:34] last night. And I'm sure you remember the room clerk telling you he was
[20:37] with me in my cottage living room from ten forty to ten fifty five.
[20:41] Sure do so that I certainly couldn't have killed your friend Wesley six miles from
[20:45] here during that time, except that Art Wesley wasn't killed at his lodge.
[20:49] What are you talking? You see? I remembered something else. The clerk
[20:52] had told me the night of the killing had stopped raining a little after eleven.
[20:56] All right, what difference does that make? All the difference in the
[20:59] world will even Here's what really happened, Cooper. You killed out Wesley in
[21:03] the bedroom of your cottage here at the Inn Auto. You immediately called the
[21:07] room clerk over and chatted with him in your living room for about fifteen minutes.
[21:10] He didn't know those a corpse in the next room. After he left,
[21:12] you took Wesley's body the six miles to his place and planted it in
[21:15] the doorway. And now, look, problem was to make it look like
[21:18] he'd been killed there. Then you remembered the slug that had killed him hit
[21:23] the wall in your bedroom. That gave you an idea. You figured out
[21:27] the right angle at the lodge and fired a shot upwards from the outside the
[21:30] door. It went through the ceiling at the back. I tell her I'd
[21:33] had enough of your half baked theories with no proof whatsoever to back them up.
[21:37] Correction, Cooper, this time, I've got proof. There was a
[21:41] shelf of food under the bullet hole, and a bowl of sugar directly under
[21:44] it. A bullet so what when sugar gets wet, it gets crusty,
[21:48] and it stays that way. But the sugar in that bowl was dry.
[21:52] Now, if the killing was between ten thirty and eleven, and it rained
[21:56] heavily until after eleven, then some rain would have dropped through the bullet hole
[22:00] into the sugar. I see. But Cooper, the sugar was dry,
[22:04] So the bullet hole was made after the time of the murder when you planted
[22:08] Wesley's body. There just a little detail, Cooper, but it nails you
[22:14] that And of course the fact I found the slug that really killed Wesley just
[22:17] a couple of minutes ago, buried in the wall of your bedroom behind a
[22:19] picture you'd move slightly to cover it, Ol'donllar. I may as well tell
[22:25] you that I saw you come out of my cottage a few minutes ago.
[22:29] I figured you knew. So Ever, since you sat down here, I've
[22:32] been holding a gun on you under the table, you know, Cooper,
[22:37] I may as well tell you, ever since I sat down here, I've
[22:41] been holding a gun on YouTube. Have it were you? You didn't have
[22:51] any gun, big time gambler bluffed right out of the game, Cooper,
[22:55] you're slipping Adam ten thirty seven to fifty transportation and incidentals back to Hartford expense
[23:11] account total one hundred and eighty seven dollars and forty cents. Remarks Cooper's a
[23:15] waiting trial by right Wesley Well. I guess that sugar Bowl was a dead
[23:22] man's revenge. Come to think of it, that revenge is pretty sweet.
[23:26] Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, our star will return in just a moment.
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[24:32] and directed by Jack Johnstone. Herd in to Night's cast were Virginia, Greg
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[24:51] truly Johnny Dollar damn coverly speaking three Welcome back Well. Johnny's daring bluff was
[26:06] a nice touch in this episode. In some ways, this debut from the
[26:11] for the thirty minute series seemed in many ways to be a bit rush to
[26:17] to have some writing problems. The vague one that stands out is that the
[26:22] name in the safe deposit box doesn't come up till the middle of the story.
[26:26] I do have to wonder a little bit about this episode. First of
[26:30] all, I wonder how much notice they got that they were changing the format.
[26:36] Typically they tried to have these Johnny Dollar episodes in the can about well,
[26:41] I don't know if that's the appropriate term for radio, but to have
[26:44] them recorded three weeks in advance we've all if you've listened to radio for any
[26:49] time, you've heard episodes where the star is sick and not available to play,
[26:55] And that even happened on Bob Bailey's other show, Let George Do It
[26:59] a Transfer. Well, in advance you avoid that, but I wonder when
[27:03] they learned about the change. And also another thing is that the episode is
[27:10] significantly shorter than next three episodes. And this was the network version with credits
[27:17] and public service announcements. This came in at twenty four minutes and fifty one
[27:22] seconds. Well, the next four episodes all came in at close to thirty
[27:26] minutes, which suggests that a couple of possibilities. One that there might have
[27:32] been something that was broadcast that required shortening the show, or if sufficient notice
[27:41] hadn't been given, it may have been just to have less time in the
[27:44] show so they could do a shorter script. Mostly, I think the show
[27:48] works. The sugar Bowl thing I think is pretty clever as an ending.
[27:51] I love that we got to hear Larry thorguest star Larry Thor of course Broadway
[27:56] is my beat, which we'll hear one of these days. And Maul Bailey
[28:02] is still fun to listen to, but I think they'll definitely be better stories
[28:06] in this thirty minute run. All right, Well, on to some listener
[28:08] comments and feedback. Actually, this first one I'll start with because it ties
[28:15] into something I'm going to announce show related. David Gray tweets and spent time
[28:22] in New Orleans today with Johnny Dowler courtesy of AT Radio Detectives. Well,
[28:27] I'm glad you enjoyed listening to us in New Orleans. The promo for this
[28:33] episode indicated that next week's show was going to be in New Orleans. In
[28:37] reality, it wasn't the show that came next week. The Mark Matter was
[28:41] actually in San Francisco. However, we're going to actually hold off on playing
[28:48] The Mark Matter tell Thanksgiving time, because it's got a very nice little Thanksgiving
[28:56] message in it and probably more appropriate to that season of the year. So
[29:00] we'll skip that episode for now and come back to it next week. You'll
[29:03] hear the Royal Street Matter, which is one of the few Johnny dollars after
[29:11] the end of the fifteen minute episodes that I've listened to, and I have
[29:15] pretty good memory that it was a very strong episode. So and no,
[29:19] we need to worry we will get to the mark matter in November. Many
[29:23] listeners have commented on the of the Johnny Dollar serials, start with this one
[29:32] from hobbyer Neardrid in Spain, who says, I've been enjoying Johnny Dollar since
[29:41] the beginning. It has always been one of my favorite shows. I never
[29:44] understood why people kept asking about when the five part series were going to start,
[29:48] as I thought the thirty minute one part shows were excellent. Now that
[29:52] I've been listening to the five part shows, I understand they are so much
[29:55] better. The extra time really let's the character and the story develop further,
[29:59] and I've been enjoying them immensely. I also really hate how in other shows
[30:04] that they recrap what has happened in previous episodes, as it always seemed artificial
[30:11] and clumsy. But in the Johnny Dollar episodes, this is not the case,
[30:14] and I find myself thinking how seamless and how natural it seems. Thanks
[30:21] for bringing these episodes to life again. Oh, You're welcome, and I
[30:25] would definitely agree that usually. You know, there are probably a few cases
[30:30] I've called out where it kind of seemed a little forced, but those were
[30:33] very rare. I think that compared to say The Adventures of Superman. They
[30:40] really do did a good job on the way they wrote those, and Jay
[30:48] writes in from Ben Orgon says, HadAM, I've been listening to your podcast
[30:52] for a few years. I'm sad to see Johnny Dollar coming to an end.
[30:56] If I'm ever in Boise, I feel I owe you dinner for all
[30:59] your hard work. And yes, you can order anything you want. Keep
[31:02] it up well. Thanks so much. Jay. I'm reminded about of the
[31:06] line of Han Solo about having a very large imagination. I'm in Star Wars,
[31:12] but in all seriousness, I tend to actually order pretty light when I
[31:17] know someone else is paying the bill. Not that I'm angling for any invitations,
[31:21] but thanks so much. I appreciate your comments. And then we also
[31:25] have this from Dan who says, it feels like, Dear Adam, it
[31:29] feels like Labor Day. You know that feeling at the end of the summer
[31:33] on Labor Day when you're sat summer is over. That's how I feel as
[31:37] the Johnny Dollar episodes come to an end. I'm melick Collie as my summer
[31:42] phase. I cannot enjoy this last episode because I know this is the end
[31:45] of something good, and I can understand the feeling. It's all. It's
[31:52] definitely bittersweet getting to the end of that. I think that, you know,
[32:00] I tried to enjoy it, you know, for the last time for
[32:04] a while. Anyway, you know, I think I'll definitely listen to the
[32:08] series again, whether it's on my own or whether it's hosted on a podcast,
[32:15] because it really was, you know, that good. On the bright
[32:19] side, there are a lot of people who have loved Bob Bailey's Johnny Dollars
[32:22] without even hearing the fifteen minute episodes. So there's some solid, great acting
[32:28] that sustained this series for four plus more years. So and it'll probably be
[32:34] easier to enjoy, you know, later down the road, particularly when the
[32:37] scripts get better. He also concludes with an oh, p asked Pat Novak's
[32:40] one liners are priceless. Indeed they are all right. Well, that will
[32:45] do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Police Headquarters, and then
[32:51] join us next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. In
[32:55] the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectors, follow us
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[33:06] dot com, Slash Radio detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your
[33:09] host, Adam Grahamson and off

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