The Gruesome Spectacle Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 28, 1958)

“The Gruesome Spectacle Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 28, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for Tri-State Life and Casualty, is called to Bethel, New York, after Tommy Hargrave dies in a car accident at Shadow Hill, a summer lodge above a private lake. Police Chief Amos Skinner has already closed the case as an accident, but Johnny notices that the car's windows were closed and that the body lay under the side that should not have trapped it. Working with Chief Skinner and Dr. Walton, he begins to question whether the death was truly accidental. This is an episode of the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on September 28, 1958, starring Bob Bailey.

Bethel, New York, in Sullivan County, including Shadow Hill lodge above a private lake and the nearby highway

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ed, Tommy Hargrave, Mary Hargrave, Chief Amos Skinner, Dr. Walton, Barney Martin

Listen for: Johnny's observations about the car's closed windows and the position of the body beneath it, and Chief Skinner's account of how he first learned of the accident

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.