The Laughing Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 13, 1956)

“The Laughing Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 13, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Mexico after someone takes a shot at television star Charlie Burton through his hotel room window. Burton's life is insured for half a million dollars, making several people around him suspects—including the show's producer Frank Moltz, who was away from the hotel at the time of the shooting.

A Mexican hotel and the Ventino nightclub, where Charlie Burton is filming a television show.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Charlie Burton, Captain Parral, Frank Moltz, Gloria Dale, Al Schreiber, Pearl

Listen for: Johnny confronts Frank Moltz at a local nightclub and learns the producer's complicated reasons for staying on despite his hatred of Burton, while the mystery of who fired the shot remains unsolved.

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.