Milford Brooks III: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 7, 1948)

“Milford Brooks III” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 7, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, is hired by East Coast Underwriters to prevent Milford Brooks III, a young man insured for two million dollars, from committing suicide. Brooks has recently changed his policy beneficiary to Harold Hatcher, a notorious gambler, and is demanding a large loan from his insurance company. Dollar decides to give Brooks something to live for by arranging an evening in New York with an attractive woman named Butter.

Hartford, Connecticut and New York City

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Milford Brooks III, Austin Farnsworth, Harold Hatcher, Della, Butter

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's wise-cracking narration and expense account details; the physical comedy of Dollar sitting on the drunken Brooks; the budding romance between Dollar and Butter.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.