The All Wet Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 3, 1961)

“The All Wet Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 3, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to Casey, South Carolina to investigate a mysterious package received by wealthy widow Melanie Ramsey Pembroke. The package, postmarked from Chicago, contains a crude time bomb that Melanie safely disarms by throwing it out the window into a fish pond, damaging the detonating device.

Casey, South Carolina, at Ramseville, the Pembroke family home, in 1961

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Thurston, Melanie Ramsey Pembroke, Peter Pembroke

Listen for: The explanation for who sent the bomb and why they wanted to harm Melanie Pembroke; details about her husband Peter's travels and his connection to Chicago

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.