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The Frisco Fire Matter (opening clipped)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 5, 1959 · 24 min · 3,355 words

The transcript of “The Frisco Fire Matter (opening clipped)”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast April 5, 1959. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Any other who's that smokey something yeah, holy You always call people at 5 30 in the morning. Oh, hi is smoky. How are things down in New York? I'll smokey. Don't tell me you've been up to your old tricks. You know I hope not. Well, what about this fire big warehouse?

They're in San Francisco the insurance in a big warehouse So as soon as I can check it out out, let's see at the Huntington Hotel if I'm not ill oh listen over to call you Sure, it's arson. I'm sure and I'll see you In the exciting adventures of a man with the action-packed expense of calm America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Oh, it's truly

Johnny dollar a hand-cuffed thief makes a desperate bid to escape a frantic dope addict Crashes through a fiberboard wall at the police station house It's part of the daily routine in New York 16th Police precinct hell's kitchen in the new issue of look magazine You follow tough dedicated cops as they track down the man who pulled the trigger run down a burglar

subdue a drug addict. And you'll learn and look the kind of guy it takes to make a detective. What he thinks about his job, what he thinks about the kinds of people he has to deal with.

It's all here in looks, exciting picture story, detectives at work, an uphill fight in a tough city where the crime rate has risen almost 10% in the last year, where 40% of the nation's drug addicts fight, steal or beg for a fix, where an entire neighborhood suddenly becomes silent when the police department tries to track the man behind the gun.

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