The Earned Income Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 4, 1960)

“The Earned Income Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 4, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, is hired by Toby Tepic to look into a robbery in which five thousand dollars in cash was taken from Philip Standish's apartment. Standish explains he kept the money hidden in a bronze funeral urn, and reveals he once shared a prison cell with a man named Tommy Slade, who had suggested the hiding place. Dollar traces Slade to a train bound for Los Angeles and boards it to follow him. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio series, and this episode was broadcast on CBS Radio on December 4, 1960, starring Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell.

Hartford, Connecticut, and a Mercy Hospital room, then a Starlight Express train travelling westward through Ohio toward Los Angeles

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Toby Tepic, Philip Standish, Tommy Slade, Sergeant Jimmy Worms-er, Dr. Springer, Stewart

Listen for: Standish's account of hiding the money in the urn and his prison-cell connection to Tommy Slade, and Dollar's search for Slade on the train

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.