The Cronin Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 7, 1955)

“The Cronin Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 7, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives at the isolated Cronin summer estate in Wells Falls, New York to investigate a half-million-dollar necklace. Mrs. Cronin has unexpectedly returned after years away, arriving on the train in poor health with a heart condition. As a storm approaches, Johnny tries to locate the local doctor, Big B, who mysteriously refuses to treat her and insists she leave immediately, hinting at dark secrets from the past.

The Cronin summer estate on the river, five miles from Wells Falls, New York, during an approaching storm

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mrs. Cronin, Dr. Big B, Jason Prell, Miss Atherton, Sylvia, Laura Dean, Vigal Deschordi

Listen for: The mystery of why Dr. Big B refuses to treat Mrs. Cronin and what connection exists between her return and her late husband Barnaby's death at the same house years earlier during a similar storm

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.