Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Re-Imagined Radio celebrates Johnny Dollar, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, the man with the action-packed expense account, by sampling from "The McCormick Matter" episode starring Bob Bailey, considered the best of the eight Johnny Dollar actors during the series' fourteen-year run on CBS.SignificanceWith Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, especially 1955 to 1956 when Bailey voiced the leading character, CBS resisted the encroachment of television and kept radio drama flourishing a few more years. Today, the series, and especially Bailey's portrayal, are considered one of the best detective series heard on radio.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices