The Broderick Matter - Ep 1: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 14, 1955)

“The Broderick Matter - Ep 1” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 14, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar takes on a case for Eastern Trust Insurance to locate Lorraine Broderick, the beneficiary of a $1,500 policy left by John Adams Smith, a newspaper vendor who died in a charity ward. Smith had met Lorraine when she was just eleven years old and took out the policies as a gesture of kindness, never seeing her again. Dollar traces Lorraine from her parents' death in 1948 through her time at St. Charles High School and her work as a dental assistant, but finding her current whereabouts proves difficult.

St. Charles, Connecticut; Eastern Trust Insurance Company office, high school, dental office

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Steele, John Adams Smith, Lorraine Broderick, Sister Mary Regina, Dr. Doctor

Listen for: The touching backstory of how an elderly newspaper vendor came to leave his insurance money to a girl he met only once; Johnny Dollar's investigation methodology as he pieces together Lorraine's life after her parents' death.

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.