An audition or sales-presentation recording associated with Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, identified in the archive as “Milford Brooks III (Dick Powell Audition).”

This Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast aired on December 7, 1948. It is listed as episode 0 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Dick Powell, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, and Joseph Kearns. Other credited names include Anton M. Leader as director, Paul Dudley as writer, and Gil Doud as writer.

The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.

A detective drama about freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, whose expense-account narration carries him through fraud, theft, missing persons, and murder cases across several distinct starring eras.

Listeners can expect mystery, crime, and drama, episodic drama and five part serial in format, and suspenseful, adventurous, and serious in tone.