The Hair Raising Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 30, 1958)

“The Hair Raising Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 30, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives at the home of a wealthy man who has been found dead in his bedroom. While the doctor attributes the death to natural causes and a heart condition, Johnny senses something is amiss at the scene, though he cannot immediately identify what troubles him about the circumstances.

A wealthy household in Hollywood, focusing on the bedroom where a man has died

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Brit Milk, Gerten, Doctor, Sergeant, Miss

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's instincts that something is wrong despite the doctor's natural causes ruling; the details about the open windows and peculiar smells in the room; the family's reactions to the death

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.