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one missing episode in between last week's show and this one.
But now from May tenth, nineteen fifty nine, here is
the fatal phile matter.
Speaker 2: Ben Slate one O seventy.
Speaker 3: This is Johnny Dollar for a broadcast Sunday, May tenth,
nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 4: Johnny Dollar, Johnny, this is Ray Connelly. Oh, yeah, over
at Continental Insurance Company.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 2: Oh, what's the problem?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Problem? No problem at all? Actually, uh are you busy to.
Speaker 7: Night, Johnny?
Speaker 2: No, no plans at all.
Speaker 6: Well, you see my wife's out of town for a
few days, and Johnny, well, I wonder if you have
dinner with me tonight? Can you do that?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1: Good? Good?
Speaker 2: Just name the time and place and I'll meet you there.
Speaker 6: Well, I have to have a nice thick filet of
prime beef and my refrigerator at home.
Speaker 2: And if you like steaks, sure I do.
Speaker 1: Well, why don't you.
Speaker 6: Run over to my place at say six six thirty.
I'll pull you a couple of cocktails and we'll tackle
that steake.
Speaker 4: Okay, Johnny, Ray, you're sure there isn't something that's bothering you?
Sixty Johnny, Yeah, okay, but now listen.
Speaker 6: Good good, I'll see you then.
Speaker 4: Well, why don't you hm hmm.
Speaker 3: Bob Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America is fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
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Speaker 4: Dollar expense accountsummitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Continental Insurance Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut, following as an
account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the fatal
Filet matter. There was something very funny about Ray Connolly's
sudden invitation to have dinner with him, much less cocktails
I'd been at his office far too many times. I'd
seen the bottles of pills that he kept in his desk,
watched his secretary bring him a glass of milk at
precisely ten thirty am at exactly three point fifteen PM.
Had listened to the dull details of his Ulco free
diet more times than I can remember. So when Ray
said cocktails, Oh, come on now, dollars, stopped trying to
build up a case out of nothing. And yet, for
reasons that will be made clear later in this report,
everything goes on expense account. I don't want a dollar
forty for a cab to raise apartment. It was six
thirty on the nose when I pushed the doorbell. Oh,
and I decided that if he did have something bothering him,
I'd let him get around to it in his own
sweet time.
Speaker 2: I wished later that I.
Speaker 8: Had Shohnny, Johnny, I'm glad to see you come in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how are you?
Speaker 5: Ray? Well?
Speaker 8: You know how it is?
Speaker 4: Huh, those ulcer's been kicking up on you again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a little sit on, Johnny?
Speaker 2: So sure?
Speaker 9: Thanks?
Speaker 8: Now, what would you like martini? Manhattan?
Speaker 4: Got a plain old Scotch and soda lying around.
Speaker 10: I certainly have have it for you in a second.
Never touch it myself anymore.
Speaker 2: Of course, do you mean you're not drinking with me?
Speaker 10: Maybe I'll have a glass of melk and let's see. Yeah,
it's time for me to take one of my pills.
Speaker 9: Here you are, Johnny.
Speaker 4: But did it ever occur to you, Ray that if
you'd stop worrying so much about that gutty yours you
might not have so much trouble with it.
Speaker 8: Johnny, it's easy to see you never had an ulcer.
Speaker 2: No, sir, and I don't ever intend to.
Speaker 8: Well, if you were in my end of the business.
There's something just happened that I want to tell you about.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, later. Incidentally, the steak we're having is the
most beautiful thing you ever saw. Well, come on, I'll
show it to you while I got a glass of milk. Okay,
I guess my wife ordered some groceries sent over from
Morris Bain's market before she left. I told you she's away, Yes,
I left yesterday. The steak was delivered last night, along
with some other things.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 8: How about that?
Speaker 2: That looks like you could cut that with a fork.
Speaker 8: Prime beef excuse me, I'll get my glass of milk. Sure, Hey,
how do you like your steak?
Speaker 2: By the way, only one way? Blood rare?
Speaker 10: Of course, I'll have to have mine rather well done.
I'll just cut the filling and half and it'll be
no problem at all.
Speaker 4: Ray, What about this thing that happened in the office
you were going to tell me about later, Johnny?
Speaker 5: Later?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 4: Looking back, I wished that i'd pressed the point, but
I didn't. Instead, I had another drink, watched him sip
his glass of milk, listen to him complain some more
about his pet ulcer, and then finally we sat down
to dinner.
Speaker 8: There we are. Isn't that the most beautiful steak you
ever saw?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, Pray, didn't you hear me?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh dear, I'm terribly brother.
Speaker 2: You ought to be that looks like a piece of
shoe leather when.
Speaker 8: You said blood rare, and I forgot all about it.
Speaker 2: Ray, you are a dog.
Speaker 8: You're sure you can't eat it this way rather chew
up an old boot.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, something is bugging you now?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 9: Johnny?
Speaker 8: Look, I'll go out and buy another one for you.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 4: I Lets you were sit here and get cold.
Speaker 8: No, no, Johnny, I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 2: It's okay, go ahead, right, tear into it.
Speaker 4: I'll go out in the kitchen and see if I
can find the makings of a sandwich. I could have
killed him over cooking a perfectly good steak that way,
but instead I made myself a sandwich and stuck around
because I knew that sooner or later he'd tell me
his real purpose in having me come over. And later
he did, at least he started to. We had washed
the dishes and then gone back into the living room.
I had settled now with a third cup of coffee
and a cigarette, and he was sipping in another glass
of milk.
Speaker 8: It's just that I don't like being threatened, Johnny.
Speaker 10: One knows I have enough trouble keeping the sulcer under
control with just the daily run of problems I have
to face at the office.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by it?
Speaker 10: You know, you know, people demanding more from their insurance
than they deserve, People filing claims when they aren't entitled,
when the insurance at all, and then trying to Oh what.
Speaker 8: Nothing, Johnny, I just I'll be all right.
Speaker 2: You forget to take one of your pills.
Speaker 8: Right, No, but maybe I better take another.
Speaker 2: Yes, me, you're taking too many of them. But what
was this talk about being threatened?
Speaker 8: Well, Johnny, this fellow by the name of Oh oh.
Speaker 2: No, Ray, Johnny Ray, what's the matter?
Speaker 8: This pepe in my stomach? It's killing me?
Speaker 2: He s here, Let me get you on the sofa.
Speaker 4: Quick, please here, No, what medicine?
Speaker 8: Anything to stop it?
Speaker 10: Johnny.
Speaker 4: I grabbed the telephone and called dtr Remse, but because
of a traffic tie, was nearly half an hour.
Speaker 2: Before he got there.
Speaker 4: Meantime, Ray lay on the sofa, getting paler and paler
until he was white as a sheet. The doctor, completely
familiar with Ray's also problem, did what he caught, but
after forty forty five five minutes, realized things were getting
beyond his control, so he called an ambulance. Another half
hour and yeah, by the time they got him to
the hospital, in spite of injections and oxygen along the way,
Ray Connelly was dead.
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Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the Fatal
philet Matter.
Speaker 4: Yes, mister Dollar, I knew that Connolly's ulcer condition was serious.
I've been treating him for a couple of years, but
I certainly never believe this could happen. What it means
is that he bled to death. Is that it, doctor,
has internal hemorrhage. But if such such intensity, I don't
understand it. And yet, well, let's face it, Donna, this
sort of thing has happened before, has happened before. Yes, doctor,
you may be right about that well, of course, but
not in the way you think. I went back to
Rai's apartment and let myself in with a key I'd
filched out of his pocket. Then went over every inch
of the place, and I came up with nothing. Nothing,
that is, until I went into the kitchen. There I
saw for the second time the bag of groceries that
his wife had had delivered from Bain's Market, from which
Ray had taken only one thing so far as I knew,
the steak he'd eaten that night. Yeah, and he had
eaten every bit of it. I dumped him out on
the table, made a list of it. Then I noticed
something else on the table. It was a cheap gold
plated cuff.
Speaker 2: Link with the initials x D on it. Hmm.
Speaker 4: Early the next morning I talked with Morris Bain, proprietor
of the Food Market Insurance Investigative.
Speaker 2: That's right, mister Vain. Oh, George, just call me Mars.
Speaker 12: That's what my customers do, okay, Marris, Well, of course
I'll be glad to cooperate, Miss the Dollar, every which
way I possibly can.
Speaker 13: Good off on the left, Julius, right over the salad dressing.
Speaker 12: I gotta keep canned snails. I gotta keep for some
of my special customers. But how people can eat those?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 12: Oh, good morning, missus Beck And it's a lovely morning,
isn't it now Morris? Oh yeah, you wanted information?
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh, missus van Derslude, how are you?
Speaker 13: How's your nice little doggy?
Speaker 5: This fight?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 13: No, no, get him out here before you don't get outside,
out out?
Speaker 12: Oh what's your problem with dogs in the store?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: But now do you have a customer by the name
of Conny or missus Connolly?
Speaker 2: Sure, lovely woman.
Speaker 14: She was in here only the other Oh.
Speaker 13: How do you do miss Keina? How's my little sweet
hot today?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 13: We got a special on those.
Speaker 4: Fancy Missus Connley was in here when the day before yesterday?
Speaker 2: Or how's her husband?
Speaker 8: Mister Dollar, Is he still suffering from those terrible alcs?
Speaker 2: No, not anymore? Oh, it's a miracle hardly. The point
is she ordered some stuff from you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: We delivered it too day before yesterday. What what did she.
Speaker 12: Right here in the office, mister dollar, I'll tell you
exactly what went over me, but exactly good you want it?
Speaker 13: Ba to serials, madam? Right there in the second aisle. H,
you're welcome.
Speaker 12: No, right here in this pile of bills is the one? Well,
whatever the here we are, missus Ray connolly, let me
compare with the list I have sure joyous, joyous take
care and missus free banded by the cheese.
Speaker 8: That's your time I have with the help and such
an exclusive client.
Speaker 5: Tell you have no idea?
Speaker 2: What did you find what you're looking for? Yeah, everything
checks except for one thing. Mistake.
Speaker 4: You delivered it steak that's right, a prime phil a.
Speaker 2: But it's not on the list.
Speaker 13: We don't sell me what No, of course not, Sady, sady,
double check the half away order. Somebody made a mistake
last week.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you're sure your delivery boy didn't take
a steak to the conn.
Speaker 14: A pleasure or any time?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 8: Sure said did you deliver the room?
Speaker 4: Now I try a different tech itightam, two or three
whatever it is, a dime for phone called a doctor ransom.
I suggested he take whatever steps were necessary to make
a complete examination of the stomach of the now deceased
Ray Connolly. I had him four eighty five cents for
a cab to the office of Continental Insurance.
Speaker 2: Ray's secretary had obviously been crying.
Speaker 15: I just can't believe it, mister Dollar.
Speaker 2: I know, Gracy. Now listen.
Speaker 4: Did any of the people who have come here to
see him ever threaten him?
Speaker 15: Threaten him?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 15: Lots of people have threatened lots of things when they
didn't feel their claims were met properly. But he was
the fairest, the most honest man. When mister Dollar, somebody.
Speaker 2: In here yesterday.
Speaker 15: Maybe, yes, there was a man in here yesterday who
was very angry about something. I could hear him pounding
the desk in there and swear who was he? I
don't know. He must have come back with mister Conley
after luncheon and I didn't see him leave, but look
he lost to cuffling coble.
Speaker 4: Let me xd what, Gracy, this is the man I'm
looking for? Can you find me a policy with this
man's name on it.
Speaker 15: Just from these initials, with all the policies on.
Speaker 4: Fire, probably a beneficiary whose claim was settled or.
Speaker 15: Refused, you say the man, mister Dow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gracie, the man who murdered your boss. Act three
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 7: In a moment, the sociable, look smart, keep up to
date with pepsi, drink like j refreshing pepsi, stay young,
can fair, and.
Speaker 15: Be sociable and pepsi.
Speaker 14: When friends drop in.
Speaker 3: Let your hospitality show you a sociable in the modern manner.
Speaker 2: Epsi you know, is the favorite of the smart and
young at heart.
Speaker 11: The sociable, smart, to date with pepsi, drink light, refreshing pepsi,
stay young, can there and dever there these sociable have.
Speaker 2: P Have you tried a pepsi lately?
Speaker 3: And now Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4: Expense account and h five another dime for another call
to doctor Ransom. Yes, the autopsy had been made, and
yes they had found enough ground glass in the stomach
of Ray Connelly to kill three men. That's why Ray,
with his elsa condition had gone so fast.
Speaker 10: While he was with you.
Speaker 4: Johnny the police would like very much.
Speaker 1: To talk to you.
Speaker 4: Well, certainly they don't think I did it, of course,
not Race too. Yeah, well, well, after all you were
with him at the time when he ate that phill. Okay, okay, Doc,
I'll get in touch with him. HadAM six ten cents
for another call to race secretary at Continental Insurance.
Speaker 15: Yes, yes, mister Dollar, I had.
Speaker 2: That's going, Grace. What's his name?
Speaker 15: Xavier Donado? The photo was still at mister Connelly's desk.
Speaker 2: Donado and the address one three.
Speaker 15: Four two five.
Speaker 2: Sunset Sunset got it and.
Speaker 15: Listen the reason he was angry with mister Conny. He
was named his beneficiary of his father's life insurance policy. Yeah,
but his father just committed suicide.
Speaker 9: You see what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Donado couldn't collect.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean no, he couldn't, So, Gracie, you're a doll.
I had him seven two bucks and a half for
a taxi to the address far out on Sunset Avenue.
It turned out to be an old ramshackle roaming house
in a pretty lousy neighborhood.
Speaker 15: Sure, look for yourself, but I tell you he ain't
here anymore.
Speaker 1: Leave yesterday morning, bag and baggage there you are see
for yourself.
Speaker 15: Now, don't tell me he's still living here.
Speaker 2: I can't say that I blame it.
Speaker 9: What's that?
Speaker 2: Have you any idea where he might have gone?
Speaker 5: If I did?
Speaker 4: That's in the tops to get the rindios me.
Speaker 2: The cops are won him for a lot more than
your rent, lady.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's more than that murder?
Speaker 4: I'd have made another phone call to police headquarters. I
talked with Serge and Jimmy Maxwell in homicide only. I
listened more than I talked.
Speaker 6: Couplinks HU with the initials XD on him.
Speaker 4: That's right way I dare not telling us.
Speaker 6: Before as if you didn't know it. That's withholding evidence
and then a murder case.
Speaker 9: Hey look, that's another thing, dollard.
Speaker 6: If you suspected murder, why didn't you call us in
instead of having a doctor order the autopsy?
Speaker 9: You're trying to hide something?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 9: Are you anyway?
Speaker 6: We've been coming a city for you as if you
didn't know, you got a.
Speaker 9: Little explaining to do it.
Speaker 8: Look here and listen.
Speaker 6: What do those initials x D stand for?
Speaker 4: Well, if you let me get a word in edge wise,
I might tell you. Well, the D stands for Donado
the ex f Xavier Xavier.
Speaker 2: What kind of a name is that, Xavier? If you
want to say it that way.
Speaker 9: Oh boy, that's so rare.
Speaker 4: When you got his address, he just left the place
where he was living, so he's probably a thousand miles
away back Xavier, of course, and right under my nose.
Speaker 9: What Johnny.
Speaker 4: Maybe I should have told him more everything I knew,
but I didn't want to have to wait for the
police or anybody else. Ray had been a friend of mine.
To bring his killer to justice was all I cared about.
As for that name, Zavi, of course, I'd heard it
only a few hours before, and for some stupid reason,
it had never occurred to me that it began with
a letter X. I had a nine a buck and
a half or another taxi, this time to the Yeah,
you guessed it.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, please, Julie.
Speaker 8: I gotta tell you. You packed the vegetables on top
of Marris.
Speaker 2: Harris, come over here back so soon.
Speaker 8: Listen.
Speaker 4: When I left you early this morning, just as I
was leaving, I heard you call somebody by the name
of Xavier.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, you mean that slow poker, that dumb, stupid.
Speaker 4: Right does he still here.
Speaker 2: What's his last name?
Speaker 5: His last name? Yeah? What is what his last name?
Speaker 14: It's Sadie.
Speaker 13: How many times I gotta tell you when a customer
has got to come playing?
Speaker 4: Well, this one has no savi here, Savier Donado.
Speaker 5: Looking for me?
Speaker 2: Mister, yours Xavier Donado?
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 4: I just want to show you a couple of cufflinks.
Here are these yours?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Mine?
Speaker 2: Then they'll try to pull a gun me.
Speaker 5: I got no gun, mister.
Speaker 2: I found one of these in Ray Connolly's office.
Speaker 5: Sure, I got mad. I slammed bang on the desk
at him.
Speaker 4: I found the other one at his apartment where you
delivered that steak to him, that steak full of ground glass.
Speaker 2: Where'd you get that steak?
Speaker 5: Wilson's Prime Market, along the way to his place.
Speaker 4: Then you put in the glass and took it up
to him.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was pretty good. Eh. So you from the cops.
Speaker 4: You're expecting the cops. I don't know, but you didn't run,
You didn't leave time.
Speaker 5: Sure, because I'm smart, you leave time, they know you've
done it, They chase you, they catch you. Honest, I
didn't know it was gonna kill him, you know, what now.
But I had to get even, you know, because he
wouldn't give me that insurance, because my old man killed himself,
so that my grandpapa, his old man, just because they
didn't get something they want.
Speaker 2: You mean, they all committed suicide.
Speaker 5: Sure, because it was all you know, off in the head.
But not me, you understand, because I'm smart. Somebody does
something against me like that insurance, I get even with him,
You understand, I don't go kill myself. I get even
with him. And you think they're gonna find out? No,
do you think they're ever gonna catch me?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Oh you did, didn't you? Yeah? Gee, I guess you're
even smarter than I am.
Speaker 4: Mister, Yeah, come on, savior, prison I doubt it now
with a family history like that. But there are institutions
for his kind. I'm sure he'll spend the rest of
his life in one of them. And maybe by studying
his case, the doctors, the psychologists can learn more about
helping such people before they go off the deep end
expense account. Forget it, Ray Conley was my friend, yours truly,
Johnny Dollar.
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Speaker 4: Next week a pair of twins, and believe me, they
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yours truly, Johnny Dallen, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar starring Bob Bailey.
Originates in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed by
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This is Dan cubberly.
Speaker 14: Speaking, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Well, this is a case where what stood out to
me is that the way that medicine was practiced in
nineteen fifty nine may have contributed to the cause of
death because the way that you know medicine, you call
the family doctor, you wait half an hour for him
to show up, and then he tries to do what
he can without facilities, and it takes him to the
hospital and the patient ends up dying. And this is
kind of a situation you had where you just did
not have the approach to emergency medicine that we have
in the twenty first century, where we recognize, in a
situation of this seriousness, there's a golden hour you really
need to rush to get the patient seen and taken
care of. And so this is a case where being
alive in nineteen fifty nine contributed to the cause of death,
although ground glass is very deadly, so it's certainly no
guarantee that Ray could have survived or been stabilized, but
he would have had a far better chance in today's environment.
And this isn't to say that Johnny or the doctor
did anything wrong. They were doing the best that they
knew how to do based on the world they lived in.
But I find myself in sympathy with doctor McCoy and
Star Trek four when they went back to the two
twentieth century and meant a patient receiving then modern treatment,
and he said, well, what is this the Dark Ages.
I'll also say I don't typically romanticize the past, but
one thing I have found myself thinking, particularly as I've
listened to programs where you hear about doctors coming to
people's houses, like, yeah, that was a nice time. No
waiting rooms, no check in, just the doctor and his
little black bag coming to your door. Very personable and
human sort of treatment. But on the other end, this
episode shows that whenness you have certain health problems, it's
the type of thing that could kill you. So that
might temper my more romanticized thoughts about the joys of
house calls, at least as long as I'm thinking about
this episode. On another note, I really was interested in
the ad for Just Entertainment because they mentioned the show
was hosted by Pat Buttram and as someone who really
enjoyed his performance on Green Acres and in the Disney Robinhood.
That intrigued me. I'd heard him on a couple of
barn dance shows and grandled auprary things like that, but
I'd never heard of this one, and I did find
a fair number in circulation. Appears as a fifteen minute
daily radio program with him talking and then they're made
some singing as well. Definitely on my list of things
to check out. Well, now we turn to listener comments
and feedback, and we have lots of comments on the
cautious celibate matter, and we start with a comment from
Jeff on Patreon, who writes, no way Floyd should approve
one fifty three forty five cents expense account for this case,
since Johnny ran up those expenses for no reason and
they could have been avoided entirely. You know, I think
that there is an argument for that, because there was
no actual reason for Johnny to run and the insurance
company didn't tell him to do it, and it wasn't
infurtherance of their business goals. And Johnny has had expense
accounts where at the end of the account he disclaimed,
as he did this week, he disclaimed the entire amount.
It's like, oh, yeah, I don't need the money or
send it somewhere else or whatever. He didn't in the
cautious celibate matter, and there's an argument that he really
should have. On the other hand, there are a couple
of reasons why Floyd's might end up paying Number one,
Let's be clear, this is Floyd's of England, which is
a company that has a history of entertaining and humoring
people's eccentricities. Mainly it's been the clients, but Johnny is
a rather important insurance investigator and with a nationwide radio audience,
it would be helpful for rich clients to be able
to have a way of getting Johnny Doller to come
address their issues. They don't want to poison the well
of that relationship and end up with Joanie not wanting
to work with him, or being far less willing to
do so without charging a higher fee. So at at
the very least it's a bit of a pay me
an hour, pay me later sort of situation if they
want to continue to work with Johnny. And truth be told,
the way George handled things and communicated things is what
aroused Johnny's fears in the first place, and he could
have said things at some point like, Okay, I give
what you're concerned about, Johnny, but Durango's not here for
that at all, and you could have avoided that whole
cross country chase. George would probably realize on some level
that his miscommunication and the way he approached it is
kind of behind everything that happened, So he'd probably pay
the expense account out of guilt if nothing else, or
if he just rather put the whole thing behind him
as quickly as possible. Oh. I don't think that would
be legally required to pay it, but probably as a
matter of business practice and maybe just personal morals, they
may decide to honor it. Then we go to Spotify,
where Don Wright's on the same episode people insisting that
the Bob Bailey era was the best for Joni Dollar
or forgetting episodes like this one. Yikes. Well, I do
think that the cereals have a massive amount of weight
in the reputation of the Bailey era.
Speaker 8: And let's be.
Speaker 1: Clear that whole serial era is just fantastic. There are
flaws if you look at it closely, but it really
was something special. I think it was some of the
finest work in the Golden Age of radio from a
writing and acting perspective, both with some true masterpieces that
rise above what you would typically expect from a detective program.
And the serials have had some really serious weight in
a number of ways. One interesting old time radio interview
that's out there is the interview of Bob Bailey's daughter, ROBERTA.
Goodwin by John Dunning, the light radio historian who had
an old time radio program in the I believe in
the seventies, but definitely the eighties, and in that he
offered to make available to Bob Bailey recordings of his
work that he could listen to. And he stated on
the air that he had all but four or five
of the serials, and he had fifty half hour episodes.
And that tells you right away that the Bob Bailey
serials were circulating earlier and at a much higher rate
than the half hour episodes, because there were about two
hundred half hour episodes, I should say self contained episodes,
because most didn't go close to a half hour.
Speaker 8: And even in.
Speaker 1: This era where we have most of the half hour episodes,
the serials are good, bingeable, constantly re listenable, and build
a lot of goodwill for Bob Bailey's era as Johnny Dowler,
and it illustrates in a way how much we as
modern listeners can actually be biased in our perception of
what was good and what was bad based on what
samples survive. We assume that what we're hearing is represented
of the whole, but it's just the sample that survived.
I do wonder whether Bailey's era would be evaluated differently if,
like so many serialized programs of the era, we had few,
if any episodes in circulation, like the serialized versions of
Mister and Missus North or Mister Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons,
or Cuirote or Rocky Jordan. If we didn't have any
of these serials, or we just had say one or
two serials. Say we had The Sea Legs Matter, the
Indestructible Mick Matter, and then we had one hundred and
eighty half hour episodes. Let's say I think we'd have
a very different view of the era. Then we also
have a comment from Podbean. He adds, this was not good.
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Speaker 1: Next Friday with another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
But join us back here tomorrow as we give way
to the great adventurers of old time radio and Counterspy where.
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my punt heat?
Speaker 16: Don't you recognize me?
Speaker 9: Send you Martin the man whose life I said, didn't?
Speaker 16: This is Stubby, a man who works for HI.
Speaker 9: How do you do?
Speaker 16: It's a sotillo? That statue out of sense? Cecilia, I
gave you in the state. I need it back.
Speaker 5: Where is it?
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but I can't tell you.
Speaker 16: Why can't you tell you?
Speaker 9: I cannot say that.
Speaker 16: Maybe just gone.
Speaker 9: I'll make you think a little differently.
Speaker 16: Mister Sotillo, If you don't want to be shot right
this minute, walk up front to our car.
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