The Alder Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 7, 1956)

“The Alder Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 7, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is staying at Billy Alder's Venezuelan estate to protect the salesman who has inexplicably changed his beneficiaries five times in one month and survived a gunshot attack. A second attempt on Alder's life occurs when Johnny is confronted by Paul Kincaid, a young man apparently connected to Alder's daughter, leading to a violent struggle near the property's dangerous slope.

Billy Alder's estate in Venezuela, primarily at Laguira near Caracas, with a visit to Caracas police headquarters.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Billy Alder, Joe, Hafez Velasquez, Mrs. Alder, Peggy Alder, Paul Kincaid, Nacho Gomez

Listen for: Johnny's investigation into why Alder keeps changing his beneficiaries and who is trying to kill him, plus tension between the household members and the mysterious Paul Kincaid's true reasons for being at the property.

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.