Detectives on the Air

Originally Aired: December 1, 1955 Johnny Dollar #274, "The Henderson Matter Ep 4," Johnny arranges to meet the widow Pauline Henderson at the elegant Bighorn Lodge restaurant to discuss her late husband's death. On his way there, he encounters Maddie Knickerbocker, a gentle schoolteacher in her mid-forties, visiting George Henderson's snow-covered grave. Johnny is startled to recognize her name,...

Originally Aired: November 30, 1955 Johnny Dollar #273, "The Henderson Matter Ep 3," Johnny Dollar faces mounting resistance in his investigation of George Henderson's death after the coroner's inquest officially rules it an accident. The local hotel manager, Porter, suddenly demands Johnny vacate his room, claiming it's reserved for a convention, though Johnny sees through the transparent attempt...

Originally Aired: November 29, 1955 Johnny Dollar #272, "The Henderson Matter Ep 2," Johnny Dollar's request for a coroner's inquest into George Henderson's death stirs up immediate resistance in the small Montana town of Culver. Sheriff Holton warns Dollar to expect action, and it comes quickly in the form of Mayor Newton, who visits Dollar's hotel room with an urgent plea. The mayor insists Hend...

Originally Aired: November 28, 1955 Johnny Dollar #271, "The Henderson Matter Ep 1," insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is handed a troubling case by his boss Tim Connors. George Walter Henderson, a prominent Montana rancher and newspaper stockholder, has fallen four stories to his death from the Butte Hotel in Culver, Montana. The circumstances are murky—was it murder, suicide, or accident? Wit...

Originally Aired: November 25, 1955 Johnny Dollar #270, "The Amy Bradshaw Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar races to the Criterion Theater at 1 a.m. after receiving an urgent call from actress Amy Bradshaw, who claims she finally knows who's been trying to kill her. When Johnny arrives, he hears a gunshot from Amy's dressing room and discovers her agent, Mike Pomeroy, lying dead on the floor. Amy explai...

Originally Aired: November 24, 1955 Johnny Dollar #269, "The Amy Bradshaw Matter Ep 4," Johnny confronts Bill York, Amy Bradshaw's estranged husband, after catching him lurking outside Amy's apartment for the second time. When Lieutenant Al Sinteller arrives at Johnny's hotel room, the evidence against York looks damning: he's still the beneficiary on Amy's insurance policy, he's thousands of doll...

Originally Aired: November 23, 1955 Johnny Dollar #268, "The Amy Bradshaw Matter Ep 3," Johnny Dollar continues investigating the attempts on actress Amy Bradshaw's life after a near-miss with a falling sandbag at the Criterion Theater. With police detective Al Sintella now convinced the threats are real, Johnny heads to Greenwich Village to track down Bill York, Amy's estranged husband and the be...

Originally Aired: November 22, 1955 Johnny Dollar #267, "The Amy Bradshaw Matter Ep 2," Johnny continues investigating the threats against insured actress Amy Bradshaw, starting with a visit to Detective Lieutenant Al Sintella at police headquarters. Johnny shares evidence of a threatening note and a suspicious shoving incident in Times Square, though Al suspects it might be a publicity stunt. Joh...

Originally Aired: November 21, 1955 Johnny Dollar #266, "The Amy Bradshaw Matter Ep 1," Johnny Dollar heads to New York City after George Atkins at Northwest Indemnity reveals that someone appears to be threatening the life of Amy Bradshaw, a famous stage actress the company insured. At the Criterion Theater on West 44th Street, director David Coleman meets Johnny in the wings and explains that Am...

Originally Aired: November 18, 1955 Johnny Dollar #265, "The Broderick Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar confronts Lorraine Broderick on a thirteenth-floor ledge as she threatens to jump to her death. The freelance insurance investigator has been searching for Lorraine to deliver $1,500 in insurance money left to her by an old newspaper vendor named John Smith, who remembered a kind little girl from a s...

Originally Aired: November 17, 1955 Johnny Dollar #264, "The Broderick Matter Ep 4," Johnny Dollar teams up with Deputy King from the Malibu Sheriff Station to track down the elusive Lorraine Broderick, who has been passing bad checks across the country while Johnny tries to deliver her a legitimate insurance claim. Their investigation leads them to Joe Tappan, a struggling actor from the beach co...

Originally Aired: November 16, 1955 Johnny Dollar #263, "The Broderick Matter Ep 3," Johnny continues his search for Lorraine Broderick, tracking her movements from New York to the California coast. What began as a simple claim payment for a sweet old man's bequest to a nice young girl transforms into something far more troubling. Through interviews with Edward Quinlan at a gas station, Mrs. Gaine...

Originally Aired: November 15, 1955 Johnny Dollar #262, "The Broderick Matter Ep 2," Johnny continues his search for the elusive Lorraine Broderick, tracking down leads that only deepen the mystery. Apartment manager Carl Walden reveals that Lorraine vanished in the middle of the night in December 1953, leaving behind only a fifty-dollar bill and no forwarding address. Walden describes seeing her...

Originally Aired: November 14, 1955 Johnny Dollar #261, "The Broderick Matter Ep 1," Robert Steele from Eastern Trust Insurance Company hires Johnny Dollar to locate Lorraine Broderick, beneficiary of a $1,500 policy left by John Adams Smith, a 67-year-old newspaper vendor who died alone in a charity ward. The case touches Steele deeply because Smith religiously paid his premiums for years after m...

Originally Aired: November 11, 1955 Johnny Dollar #260, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar races to a waterfront cafe where Maria has called him in panic, claiming she's being followed. After a tense standoff with a gunman firing from across the dark street, Johnny pursues the fleeing car in a high-speed chase along the dangerous coastal road. The pursuit ends in a fiery crash that ki...

Originally Aired: November 10, 1955 Johnny Dollar #259, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 4," Johnny Dollar bribes an employment agent named Abdul for the address of Chada, the servant girl who worked for Countess D'Atalia. Hours earlier, someone turned on the gas in the Countess's apartment in an apparent murder attempt, and Dollar suspects Chada. Before he can leave his hotel, he receives an unwelco...

Originally Aired: November 9, 1955 Johnny Dollar #258, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 3," Johnny Dollar continues his investigation into $100,000 worth of missing Lorco diamonds in Algiers, North Africa. The mystery deepens when he discovers Hans Zeindorf, a representative from the Amsterdam diamond firm, unconscious and bound in Countess Maria's closet after someone turned on the gas. As Johnny re...

Originally Aired: November 8, 1955 Johnny Dollar #257, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 2," Johnny Dollar confronts the elegant Countess de Octaghia about a $100,000 diamond theft and murder, determined to shake her cool composure. Despite warnings from the green-eyed Inspector Marcus that the Countess is above suspicion, Dollar remains convinced she's deeply involved in the crime. The Countess was t...

Originally Aired: November 7, 1955 Johnny Dollar #256, "The Lorko Diamonds Matter Ep 1," Johnny Dollar finds himself on a plane to Algiers after receiving an urgent call from Ben Tyler at Transworld Fidelity. A courier for Lorco Limited, a prestigious Amsterdam diamond cutting firm, has dropped dead of apparent heart failure at the Algiers airport while carrying a briefcase containing $100,000 wor...

Originally Aired: November 4, 1955 Johnny Dollar #255, "The Valentine Matter Ep 5," The investigation reaches a devastating climax as Johnny Dollar witnesses the murder of Terry Valentine, the fourth victim in this deadly case. Racing from the Valentine house, Johnny tracks down two killers, brothers Sisto and Darby Chianti from New York, resulting in a fatal shootout. As Johnny grapples with his...

Originally Aired: November 3, 1955 Johnny Dollar #254, "The Valentine Matter Ep 4," Johnny receives devastating news from Roy Vickers: Danny Valentine and his wife have been gunned down by two unidentified assassins outside a hotel. Despite Johnny's efforts to protect him, Valentine had checked himself out of the hospital and disappeared, only to be tracked down by professional killers who finish...

Originally Aired: November 2, 1955 Johnny Dollar #253, "The Valentine Matter Ep 3," Johnny continues his search for Dan Valentine, the former racketeer from the Roaring Twenties who walked out of his hospital bed with two bullets still in him. After confronting Mrs. Valentine at her New Orleans hotel, Johnny presses her for answers about why her husband chose to live so far away from her and their...

Originally Aired: November 1, 1955 Johnny Dollar #252, "The Valentine Matter Ep 2," Johnny Dollar continues his investigation into the attempted murder of Dan Valentine, a former bootlegger and convicted tax evader who recently completed a prison sentence and was living quietly in New Orleans. Inspector DeBaca remains suspicious about the timing of the shooting, noting that Valentine met Dollar fo...

Originally Aired: October 31, 1955 Johnny Dollar #251, "The Valentine Matter Ep 1," Johnny Dollar finds himself with unexpected free time in New Orleans after a case involving a bellhop who stole a diamond necklace and ran off with the hotel manager's wife wraps up quickly. While killing time at a bar on Burgundy Street, Dollar recognizes a solitary, gray-haired man as Dan Valentine, a former proh...

Originally Aired: October 28, 1955 Johnny Dollar #250, "The Alvin Summers Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar finally comes face to face with the man he's been hunting. After Gloria Harris leads him to a remote jungle hut where Alvin Summers had been hiding, Johnny is confronted at gunpoint by an unseen voice in the underbrush. The mysterious stranger orders him to return to his hotel room alone within th...