The Fancy Bridgework Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 22, 1959)

“The Fancy Bridgework Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 22, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, a special investigator for the Tri-State Life and Casualty Insurance Company, travels to Sarasota, Florida, to examine the death of Alfie Garber, a heavily indebted gambler whose life insurance policy is worth forty thousand dollars. Police believe Garber jumped from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, but Johnny is not convinced and begins looking at the evidence found near the bridge. Earl Pormann assists him as they question the dead man's associates and the people around him. The episode is from the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, broadcast by CBS Radio on November 22, 1959, and stars Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell.

Sarasota, Florida, and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Earl Pormann, Alfie Garber, Luke Thrasher, Mrs. Garber, Lieutenant Dodge, Dr. Les Crutcher

Listen for: Johnny's reasoning from the feather and the blood evidence on the bridge

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.