The Enoch Arden Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 7, 1953)

“The Enoch Arden Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 7, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called to investigate a suspicious claim involving Frank Loring, an actor declared legally dead seven years ago after disappearing, whose ex-wife stands to collect a quarter million dollars. A young nurse thinks she saw Loring recently in Boston under an assumed name, applying for an international vaccination certificate, and evidence suggests he may have boarded a ship heading toward the Panama Canal.

New York, Boston, and the Panama Canal Zone in the 1950s

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Henry Grant, Ruth Boulogne, Frank Loring, Dr. Filton, Mrs. Frank Loring

Listen for: The investigation begins to unfold as Johnny pursues the lead to the Panama Canal, where the ship carrying the mysterious Michael Walsh is headed, while Mrs. Loring's party in Greenwich Village reveals her readiness to claim the insurance money.

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.