The Flight Six Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 31, 1956)

“The Flight Six Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 31, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A dynamite explosion has destroyed Flight 6 near Mexico City, killing ten people including two of Bill Blakely's business partners in an engineering firm. Johnny Dollar investigates the bombing while encountering the enigmatic Marvel Terrence, a wealthy woman who cancelled her own reservation on the doomed flight at the last minute, claiming Bill Blakely talked her out of the trip.

Mexico City and the crash site of Flight 6 on a mountain slope

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Marvel Terrence, Bill Blakely, Chino Romero

Listen for: The investigation into who planted dynamite in the plane's baggage compartment and why Marvel Terrence cancelled her flight reservation at the crucial moment

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.