The Five Down Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 25, 1960)

“The Five Down Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 25, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar is pulled away from a planned Sunday with his girlfriend Betty Lewis by a flurry of urgent calls from insurance clients, including George Reed, Pat McCracken, Earl Forman, Harry Branson and Alvin P. Cartwright. Unable to reach any of them after he tries to call back, he flies to Los Angeles, where Smoky Sullivan meets him and leads him to Cartwright's Beverly Hills home. There Johnny finds several men lying on the library floor, apparently struck down. The episode is from the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on September 25, 1960, starring Bob Bailey.

Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, including Cartwright's home on North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Betty Lewis, George Reed, Pat McCracken, Harry Branson, Earl Forman, Alvin P. Cartwright, Smoky Sullivan

Listen for: The telephone calls that pull Johnny away from Betty, and his arrival at Cartwright's library full of apparently dead men

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.