The Beauregard Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 26, 1954)

“The Beauregard Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 26, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Rockport, Illinois to look into the theft of a valuable $30,000 necklace from the Beauregard household. The engagement gift was stolen from an old-fashioned safe while the house was empty, and Dollar begins interviewing the family members to uncover who took it.

Rockport, Illinois; the Beauregard home and surrounding town

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jared Beauregard, Ellen Beauregard, Phil Avery, Benny Stark

Listen for: The mystery of the stolen necklace and Johnny Dollar's investigation into the Beauregard family's involvement in the theft.

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.