The Emily Braddock Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 19, 1953)

“The Emily Braddock Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 19, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Santa Barbara to look into Emily Braddock, a charming woman who has been passing bad checks at resort hotels along the California coast. As Dollar traces her movements from Santa Barbara to Malibu, he discovers she has befriended hotel guests and locals alike while living lavishly under assumed names, and her trail leads him toward Los Angeles where she claims to have business with a lawyer.

Santa Barbara, Malibu Beach, and Los Angeles, California in the 1950s. Resort hotels, beach homes, and downtown Los Angeles locations.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Glenn Sheridan, Sergeant Lopez, Sergeant Pelz, Garland, Emily Braddock (also registered as Mrs. Robert Payne and Ellen Bradley)

Listen for: The smooth charm and con artist skills of the mysterious Emily Braddock as she moves between coastal towns; Dollar's methodical investigation following her trail of bad checks and aliases.

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.