The Celia Woodstock Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 12, 1954)

“The Celia Woodstock Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 12, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to look into the disappearance of Celia Woodstock, a young woman who vanished a week ago from her wealthy captain husband's home near Bridgeport. Captain Woodstock reveals his wife had been visiting a local doctor frequently and had been seen with him, and a private investigator previously hired had lost her trail when she boarded a train to New York City with $2000 withdrawn from the bank.

Bridgeport, Connecticut and surrounding areas near Long Island Sound, 1954

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Captain Lyle Woodstock, Celia Woodstock, David Slayton, Dr. Charles Masterson, Janet Squash

Listen for: Dollar's investigation into Woodstock's strange behavior and hidden facts about his wife's disappearance, mysterious phone calls to someone named Sprague, and a tense confrontation

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.