The Four Is a Crowd Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 29, 1962)

“The Four Is a Crowd Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 29, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives at a Colorado mountain ranch to protect Melvin Lockerty, a wealthy man who believes one of his three visiting relatives—the children of his deceased brother Henry—is plotting to murder him. Lockerty claims his brother made a deathbed promise that one of them would seek revenge for money Lockerty once took from him, and he has been receiving threatening letters.

Guest ranch in the Rampart Range near Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the foot of Pikes Peak

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Dennis Taylor, Melvin Lockerty, Kitty Lockerty, Frickler, Marion Lockerty, Cottie Dick

Listen for: The tension between Lockerty and his three relatives as they arrive at the ranch; the shouting match in Lockerty's cabin; hints about which relative might be the threat

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.