The Harried Heiress Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 12, 1960)

“The Harried Heiress Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 12, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates the Harried Heiress matter for the International Casualty and Life Insurance Company of Hartford. Dying businessman William Everly fears that his stepson Alfred Harker will try to get at the estate, which Everly has left to his niece Nancy. Dollar tracks Alfred and Nancy from Hartford to Philadelphia, then to Los Angeles, and finally to Las Vegas, where the pair appear to be heading for a wedding. This is the premise of an episode from the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on June 12, 1960, starring Bob Bailey.

Hartford, Connecticut; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Las Vegas, Nevada

Characters: Johnny Dollar, William Everly, Dr. Thatcher, Nancy Everly, Alfred Harker, Mary Ann Hooper

Listen for: Dollar's expense account reports, which narrate his travels and the chase after Alfred and Nancy to Las Vegas.

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.