The Duke Red Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 24, 1956)

“The Duke Red Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 24, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates a $65,000 insurance claim for the death of Duke Red, a valuable racehorse on the Abbott breeding farm. Mr. Abbott claims the horse was injured beyond repair when it reared and cut its Achilles tendon on a tractor blade, prompting Dr. Gory to recommend destruction. But Johnny finds conflicting accounts and suspicious behavior from those involved, and Abbott's daughter Terry insists the shooting was unjustified.

The Abbott breeding farm near San Pietro, California, and related locations in Hartford, Connecticut.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Pearson, Mr. Abbott, Terry Abbott, Dr. Gory, Tom Warner, Foolman Roe

Listen for: The contradiction between Abbott's account of Duke Red's fatal injury and Terry's claim that her father's decision to shoot the horse was wrong; the mystery of what happened to trainer Tom Warner after being fired; whether the injury really occurred as described.

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.