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Podcast: 1001 RADIO DAYS
Episode: THE DEPARTMENT STORE SWINDLE and DEATH TAKES A WORKING DAY YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR
Description: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, was a very popular radio show which usually started with a phone call from an insurance executive, calling on Johnny to investigate an unusual claim. Each story required Johnny to travel to some distant locale, usually within the United States but sometimes abroad, where he was almost always threatened with personal danger in the course of his investigations. Johnny's file on each case was usually referenced as a "matter," as in "The Silver Blue Matter" or "The Forbes Matter". Later episodes were more fanciful, with titles like "The Wayward Trout Matter" and "The Price of...