The Allen Saxton Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 20, 1953)

“The Allen Saxton Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 20, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to examine a painting that Allen Saxton paid $200,000 for, but which several experts claim is a forgery. Dollar meets the wealthy Saxton and his spoiled daughter Barbara, views the painting, and learns that a man named Lippert has been spreading word that Saxton was swindled. While waiting for the museum to complete their examination, Dollar returns to New York only to be visited by Barbara at his hotel.

New Jersey and New York City, 1953. The story begins at Allen Saxton's three-story house across the river in Jersey, then moves to Johnny Dollar's hotel in New York.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Allen Saxton, Barbara Saxton, Mitchell, Lippert, Mr. Farmer

Listen for: The mystery of whether the valuable painting is genuine or a forgery, and what Barbara Saxton's unexpected visit to Johnny Dollar's hotel means for the case.

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.