The Joan Sebastian Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 28, 1950)

“The Joan Sebastian Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 28, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to look into the death of Joan Sebastian, a 21-year-old woman found dead near a bridge outside Boston. Police initially suspect suicide, but Lieutenant D'Rosa and Johnny both have doubts. Johnny begins digging into Joan's background, discovering she led an active social life and was given expensive gifts, including a mysterious heart-shaped key.

Boston and Hartford area; a bridge over a stream; the Sebastian home; Edward Hollis's residence

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant D'Rosa, Harold Corry, Joan Sebastian's friend, Edward Hollis, Beatrice

Listen for: The mystery of Joan Sebastian's death and the significance of the heart-shaped key; the identity of the men in Joan's life; what happened between Joan and Harold Corry while he was away

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.