• The Hapless Hunter Matter
    2026/09/05
    Aired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead in the woods near Kingman, New York, gunned down by his own hunting guide — or so the story goes. Johnny Dollar heads upstate to check the numbers behind a half-million-dollar policy, only to find a suspiciously wounded beneficiary, an overprotective doctor, and a case that refuses to add up.
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    19 分
  • Johnny Dollar and the Drunken Guide's Secret
    2026/09/05
    Aired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead and his hunting companion lies wounded in a hospital bed, with the local police pinning it all on a hard-drinking backwoods guide. But Johnny Dollar smells something off about the beneficiary's convenient alibi, and no amount of doctor's reassurance is going to stop him from chasing the half-million-dollar question. A classic Bob Bailey-era mystery of insurance fraud, small-town suspicion, and a detective who trusts his hunches over everyone's word.
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    19 分
  • The Sunny Dream Matter
    2026/09/04
    Aired: Dec 1st, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a quiet rest home in Buckland Center after its owner reports a disturbing string of accidental deaths among the elderly residents — deaths that just happen to leave the home itself as beneficiary. Behind the flower-lined walkways and cheerful porch gatherings, Johnny starts tallying up a body count that doesn't add up to coincidence. A classic slow-burn Bob Bailey mystery blending small-town charm with a cold-blooded insurance scam.
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    25 分
  • The Sunny Dream Matter
    2026/09/04
    Aired: Dec 1st, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a quiet retirement home outside Buckland Center, where the elderly residents seem content and well cared for — but five of them have died in the past six months, and each time, the home itself was the beneficiary. What looks like a run of bad luck for the actuarial tables starts to smell like something far more deliberate. Bob Bailey brings his weary, wisecracking charm to a case where the real danger hides behind rocking chairs and garden parties.
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    25 分
  • 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
    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
    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
    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