The Doubtful Dairy Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 29, 1957)

“The Doubtful Dairy Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 29, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar looks into a $56,000 compound silo fire at the Armenian Dairies near Reno, Nevada, after the owner, Aram Aminian, files a claim quickly. Dollar suspects arson, but Aminian is cold and evasive, and the local police find nothing suspicious. Dollar's search for evidence leads him through the dairy, the bank, and a night of trouble in town. The episode is part of the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on 1957-09-29 on CBS Radio, with Bob Bailey in the lead role and co-stars Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell.

Reno, Nevada, and the Armenian Dairy in the Warm Springs Valley north of the city

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pete Hardy, Aram Aminian, Herb Crowbert, Joseph Barnwell, Lieutenant Brady

Listen for: Dollar's questioning of Aminian about the silo's inner construction and his quick insurance claim

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.