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  • The Death Insurance Gamble

    The Death Insurance Gamble
    2026/09/03
    Aired: Nov 24th, 1957. Johnny Dollar is called in on the strangest policy Hartford's ever seen: a doctor has insured $250,000 against a woman's continued survival past November 10th. With a colleague's career on the line and a mysterious beneficiary to track down, Johnny has just days to unravel why anyone would bet a quarter-million dollars on someone's death. A classic Bob Bailey-era twist on the insurance racket, sharp-tongued and ticking against the clock.
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    20 分
  • The Hope to Die Matter

    The Hope to Die Matter
    2026/09/03
    Aired: Nov 24th, 1957. A puzzled insurance executive drags Johnny Dollar into the strangest policy of his career: not a payout on death, but on a woman's survival. As Johnny digs into who benefits from Mary Ellen Markham staying alive past a chillingly specific deadline, he finds a mysterious doctor, a vanished underwriter, and a countdown that's already ticking. Classic Bob Bailey-era intrigue with a twist baked right into the premise.
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    20 分
  • The Shy Beneficiary Matter

    The Shy Beneficiary Matter
    2026/09/02
    Aired: Nov 17th, 1957. An eccentric spinster leaves $25,000 to a mysterious man named Elijah Summers, but two weeks of searching turns up no trace of him. Johnny Dollar's hunt for the elusive beneficiary takes him from a shabby New York apartment to a San Francisco ad campaign and finally to a Gold Rush ghost town in the Sierra foothills, where a slow-talking deputy drops a bombshell: Elijah Summers is wanted for murder.
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    23 分
  • The Shy Beneficiary Matter

    The Shy Beneficiary Matter
    2026/09/02
    Aired: Nov 17th, 1957. A dying woman's mysterious $25,000 bequest to a man nobody can find sends Johnny Dollar from the streets of New York to a foggy San Francisco rooming house and finally into the gold rush hills of the Sierra Nevada. But when Johnny finally tracks down the elusive Elijah Summers, he learns the missing beneficiary isn't just hard to find — he's wanted for murder. Bob Bailey brings his signature world-weary charm to this twist-filled hunt for a man who doesn't want to be found.
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    23 分
  • The Alkali Mike Matter

    The Alkali Mike Matter
    2026/09/01
    Aired: Nov 10th, 1957. A telephone call from an old flame pulls insurance investigator Johnny Dollar out to Port Hopeful, Nevada — a stone palace built in the desert by a gold-rush legend's son, who's just turned up dead. With a $200,000 policy on the line and the victim's housekeeper already behind bars, Johnny has to sort motive from mirage among a house full of hungry heirs. Bob Bailey brings his trademark wit to this twisty half-hour of desert intrigue.
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    19 分
  • The Alkali Mike Matter

    The Alkali Mike Matter
    2026/09/01
    Aired: Nov 10th, 1957. A desperate call from an old flame pulls Johnny Dollar out to a stone palace in the Nevada desert, where the legendary prospector Alkali Mike Murphy's son has died under suspicious circumstances just as a $200,000 life insurance policy comes due. With the local sergeant convinced the housekeeper did it, Johnny has to sort motive from mining-camp legend before an innocent woman hangs for a killing she didn't commit. Classic Bob Bailey-era Johnny Dollar: brisk banter, a sun-baked ghost town, and a twist-laden insurance case.
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    19 分
  • The Model Picture Matter

    The Model Picture Matter
    2026/08/31
    Aired: Nov 3rd, 1957. A million-dollar face gets battered in the dark, and Johnny Dollar's investigation into an insurance claim for injured model Dorothy Blair leads straight to a sleazy fashion photographer with wandering hands. When that photographer turns up dead in the river before Johnny can question him, a simple assault case curdles into murder, with Dorothy's new beau and an old flame both looking like they've got something to hide. Bob Bailey brings his trademark wit to a twisty case of jealousy, vanity, and betrayal in the world of high fashion.
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    21 分
  • The Three Sisters Matter

    The Three Sisters Matter
    2026/08/30
    Aired: Oct 27th, 1957. A world-famous concert pianist vanishes on a routine mountain walk near his Colorado ranch retreat, and Johnny Dollar is called in by claims man Earl Foreman to track him down. What starts as a missing-persons case turns grim when a body turns up in a gully with a bullet wound — and suspicion falls uncomfortably close to home, on one of the pianist's own three daughters. Bob Bailey brings his signature wry warmth to a snowbound whodunit tangled up with family secrets and a stray rifle cartridge.
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    19 分