The Mad Bomber Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 26, 1961)

“The Mad Bomber Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 26, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar arrives in tiny Muddy Gap, Wyoming, where newspaper editor and insurance agent Hank Parnell reports receiving mysterious phone calls from Billy Benbow, a violent man from the town who was drafted decades ago and later escaped from an asylum. Benbow was trained in explosives during the war and has threatened revenge on the town, and now with Muddy Gap surrounded by massive oil storage tanks, Parnell fears Benbow plans devastating destruction.

Muddy Gap, Wyoming, a small oil storage town in cattle country west of Casper, surrounded by huge steel tanks holding millions of gallons of crude oil.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Hank Parnell, Billy Benbow

Listen for: The mysterious phone calls and the strange noise heard outside the office at the episode's end.

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.