The Lorelei Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 19, 1962)

“The Lorelei Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 19, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar receives an urgent and cryptic phone call from Timothy Jared, a wealthy former stock manipulator, who mentions murder and demands Johnny visit him immediately. When Johnny arrives at Jared's apartment building, he encounters the man's young and beautiful wife, Lorelai, who has just returned from a painting trip and suspects her eccentric husband has conjured up another worry to fret about.

Hartford, Connecticut and the Florida Lee's Apartments building; present day (1960s)

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Timothy Jared, Ed Williams, Lorelai Lambert Jared

Listen for: Johnny's initial skepticism about Jared's panic call and the mystery of what Jared fears; Lorelai's casual dismissal of her husband's worries as habitual paranoia

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.