The Malibu Mystery Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 7, 1958)

“The Malibu Mystery Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 7, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Malibu after a $150,000 diesel yacht explodes and sinks off the coast, killing the captain. The owners, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill, survive along with two crew members, but Johnny must investigate the explosion and determine whether Mrs. Merrill's jewelry, initially thought lost, was actually aboard when the disaster occurred.

Malibu, California; the Pacific coast near a fishing pier; the Merrill home in Westwood

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Henley, Captain Rowland, Mr. Merrill, Mrs. Merrill, The Skipper

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's expense account narrative; details of the yacht explosion and rescue; the mystery surrounding the yacht's fuel system failure and the location of Mrs. Merrill's jewelry at the moment of disaster.

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.