Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 3 missing episodes found by the Old Time Radio Researchers


Three MISSING YTJD were found in 2025 in what the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) refer to as the "Florida reels." These reels were from collectors who were active in the 1960s through the 1990s and their recordings have been transferred to modern digital files. These particular episodes are not in prime sound, but are very listenable. The 1961 episodes are airchecks from an unspecified station, but are suspected to be from a Hartford, CT station as they were in reels of a pioneer collector located there. The fact that these recordings have survived is rather amazing. They are  home aircheck, recorded on a low end consumer reel deck of that era, on cheap tape recording tape, with a subpar over-the-air AM radio signal, with the tape stored in bad conditions for 60 years. These recordings fill in long-missing gaps in the series.  The expert on YTJD is John C. Abbott, author of the series reference The Who is Johnny Dollar Matter? published by Bear Manor Media. Mr. Abbott has prepared summaries and analysis of these three episodes in the format of his book. He has granted permission for these summaries to be posted here on Internet Archive . We appreciate his generosity in doing so as part of the series' historical preservation effort. The PDFs can be viewed on this page or downloaded as a .zip file as  https://archive.org/compress/YTJD3missing2025/formats=TEXT%20PDF&file=/YTJD3missing2025.zip Bob Bailey is the star of The Glacier Ghost Matter . Mandel Kramer stars in The Safe at Home Matter and The Coin of the Realm Matter . ###

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.