The Golden Dream Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 11, 1962)

“The Golden Dream Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 11, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar flies to Kingman, Arizona to help his old friend Jake Hasler investigate a suspicious mining stock scheme. A young engineer named Myron Kingsley was hired to inspect the Golden Dream mine for a suspicious stockholder but disappeared a week ago after checking into the Lake Mojave Resort. Jake and Ham Pratt, the resort manager, suspect foul play involving Marty Spiller, who has been promoting worthless mining stock to unsuspecting easterners.

Kingman, Arizona and the Lake Mojave Resort area in the desert near the Colorado River and abandoned mines

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jake Hasler, Myron Kingsley, H. R. Pratt (Ham), Marty Spiller

Listen for: The investigation into Kingsley's disappearance and the Golden Dream mining stock fraud scheme; clues about what happened at the abandoned mine shaft

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.