Milford Brooks III Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 25, 1949)

“Milford Brooks III Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 25, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to protect the life of Milford Brooks III, a wealthy but troubled policy holder with a $2 million life insurance policy. Brooks has recently changed his beneficiary to notorious gambler Harold Hatcher and is threatening suicide to extort $500,000 from the insurance company. Dollar takes Brooks to New York and enlists the help of his acquaintance Butter to give the desperate man a reason to live.

Hartford, Connecticut and New York City

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

Listen for: A suicide threat used as blackmail, a mystery surrounding why Brooks owes money to a dangerous gambler, and Johnny Dollar's unconventional methods of keeping his charge alive

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.