The Jack Madigan Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 21, 1950)

“The Jack Madigan Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 21, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired by a man named Strole to find two missing witnesses—Nippy Bruno and Max Krause—who are scheduled to testify against the mysterious and powerful Jack Madigan in federal court. Dollar's search leads him to Nippy's sister Angel Brown, but before he can question her fully, he finds himself face-to-face with Madigan himself at her apartment.

New York City, primarily in apartments and offices

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Strole, Nippy Bruno, Max Krause, Angel Brown, Vivian, Jack Madigan, Herald American reporter

Listen for: The introduction of the mysterious criminal figure Jack Madigan and the tense confrontation between Dollar and the powerful man he's been hired to track down.

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.