The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 4, 1949)

“The Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 4, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar is summoned to Calcutta by Chaplain Joe Blessings to help save an innocent man facing execution in Cairo. A witness named William Brix possesses evidence that can prove the man's innocence, but Brix is gravely ill. Johnny must transport the dying man and a loaded Luger—the murder weapon—to Cairo before dawn, racing against time and unexpected complications.

Calcutta, India and en route to Cairo, Egypt by cargo plane, 1949

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Chaplain Joe Blessings, Lionel Brooks Nichols, Miles, William Brix, Frankie, A woman stowaway

Listen for: The setup of a race against time to save an innocent man from execution, a mysterious stowaway who boards the cargo plane over the Red Sea, and the murder weapon that becomes central to the case.

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.