The Duke Red Matter - Ep 1

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Dollar Niles Pearson Johnny at Universal Adjustment Girl. Oh, how are you now worried at the moment? Can you help me out? I don't know what's on your mind $65,000 worth of horse flesh Ever here of Duke Red? Yeah, I think so the futurity last year. That's a horse

Johnny Columbia and Demodie is going to have to settle a claim on him Why? Duke Red was seriously injured and had to be destroyed. Did you say 65,000? Yeah. No wonder you're worried, Niles. Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

Oh, it's truly... ...Shawny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johny Dollar. To the Universal Adjustment Bureau Universal Building Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the Duke Red Matter.

Expense account item one, $197.80 airfare and incidentals getting me from Hartford to San Francisco and a town about 40 miles south of the air called San Pietro. At the San Pietro Hotel I learned that the avid ranch was some five miles outside of town, but that the avid stables maintain offices in San Pietro.

Hello. I'd like to get in touch with Mr. Abbott. My name's Johnny Dollar. Oh, Mr. Abbott's never here. He's mostly out at the ranch. You'll have to see him there. Oh, well, is there any place in town I can rent a car?

Not that I know of. Bus? Afraid not. What's your business with Mr. Abbott? Insurance. I'm here to adjust the claim of his. Oh, yes. Duke Red. Could I see Mr. Abbott's business manager? Mr. Monroe.