The Look Before The Leap Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 28, 1960)

“The Look Before The Leap Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 28, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, is hired to locate Bernard Margot, a small-time gangster believed to be alive despite a reported suicide. The insurer faces a $300,000 payout to mobster Big Mike Killian unless Margot can be produced before March 1st. Dollar learns from a witness, Mady Prescott, that she saw Margot in Paris, and he travels there to search for him. In Paris he tries to get information from an antique dealer and an underworld contact named Louis Dumasac. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on February 28, 1960, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

New York, Hartford, and Paris in February 1960

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pat McCracken, Bernard Margot, Big Mike Killian, Mady Prescott, Randy Singer, Francois Dubasant, Louis Dumasac

Listen for: Johnny's search for Bernard Margot in Paris and the deadline set by the insurance courts

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.