The Forbes Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 28, 1955)

“The Forbes Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 28, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates the theft of $4,285 by accountant Sheldon Forbes at Century Styles, Inc. Despite the evidence against him, Forbes refuses to cooperate or help recover the money, and he seems resigned to going to prison. Dollar interviews Forbes's employer, visits his apartment, and speaks with his landlady to understand what could have motivated the quiet, lonely man to steal.

New York City, including the offices of Century Styles Inc., an apartment building on 59th Street, and a neighborhood restaurant called the 79

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Gumbie, Mr. Haven, Sheldon Forbes, Mrs. Anastasia Kanapka, Alexander Douglass

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's methodical investigation as he questions people who knew Forbes and searches for clues about why an apparently modest, solitary man would commit theft; the portrait of Forbes as a quiet, introspective loner with no obvious vices or expensive habits

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.