Adam Graham
speaker
8,217 appearances
152 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard today
Adam Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 152 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 32.
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And we have to begin with a nod to the writer, Les Crutchfield.
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Crutchfield's biggest claim to fame as a writer of radio and television is that he wrote the second largest amount of scripts for the classic Western Gunsmoke over both radio and television months.
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more than a hundred scraps.
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Only the show's co-creator, John Meston, wrote more.
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And Gunsmoke has a well-deserved reputation, and you can see how Crotchfield earned
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a spot on that legendary series, because there's so much that's really interesting about this script, and the character of Dolly Cronin is such an interesting one to write for.
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The mystery and detective genres, and I would say Johnny Dollar as a series, is replete with
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where you get sort of twisted versions of what Dolly is.
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You think back to another Johnny Dollar story, and you have the character of Amy Bradshaw, a charismatic actress who brings out the protector in Johnny, but is ultimately manipulating him and everyone else to her own end.
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And of course, there are so many cases of the sweet old lady who turns out to be a cold-blooded, ruthless killer or other type of criminal.
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What we get with Dolly is someone who is genuinely gallus and kind.
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She genuinely cares about people, and that genuine care leads people to care about her.
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In most cases, and we are given a few exceptions, Jason Prel isn't the one who did the most serious harm to her.
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but I think might have been the most cynical and exploitative.
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While the story doesn't say it, I get the sense that Prel, when he first saw Dolly in that restaurant, saw dollar signs.
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While others looked at Dolly and saw someone to love and admire,
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He saw someone who was a gold mine, if managed properly.
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So he tried, really, to monetize her.
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And to a great deal of success.
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And had a way to keep her happy.
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