Re: RARA-AVIS: My favorite Insurance Investigator

From: Scott Owen ( scottaowen@hotmail.com)
Date: 23 Aug 2001


Johnny Dollar's expense account framing device was so radio specific that the show stayed on the airwaves well after virtually every other radio drama had died or migrated to TV. I think the show may have lasted as late as 1964.

And BTW, the 5-part episodes from the mid and late '50s, with Bob Baily playing Johnny Dollar, are considered some of the best radio dramas ever made. They're excellent fodder for those of you tired of reading 2nd and 3rd rate '50s paperbacks because you've already read the good stuff.

--Scott

>From: "M Blumenthal" < blumenidiot@21stcentury.net>
>Reply-To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS My favorite Insurance Investigator
>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:48:19 -0500
>
> "Dixon H. Chandler II"
>
> > I've always thought of my favorite Insurance Investigator as a PI, and
>he's
> > certainly hardboiled. Anybody remember "that fabulous freelance
>insurance
> > investigator, Johnny Dollar," from 1950s radio?
> >
>I vaguely remember it I think his being an insurance investigator was a
>frame so that he could tell what had happened as he went over his expenses.
>It was one of the few successful radio shows that was never tried on TV.
>Even Gunsmoke with William Conrad as Matt Dillon originated on radio.
>Mark
>
>
>
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