The Buyer and the Cellar Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 10, 1961)

“The Buyer and the Cellar Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 10, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to San Francisco to investigate the disappearance of Harvey Lehman, a commission buyer of rare antiques who vanished a week ago after traveling to Los Angeles to meet with wealthy film producer John Arthur Whittington-Meener. Don Reglet, Johnny's contact at the insurance company, suspects foul play, but Johnny must determine whether Lehman has deliberately fled his domineering wife Doris or met with something worse.

San Francisco, California; flashbacks to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Don Reglet, Harvey Lehman, Doris Lehman, John Arthur Whittington-Meener

Listen for: The portrait of Harvey Lehman as a punctual, decent man who acquires rare and unusual items for wealthy clients, and the tension between him and his extravagant, controlling wife Doris.

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.