The Man Who Waits Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 22, 1960)

“The Man Who Waits Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 22, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, pursues Rocky Harrison, a man who was sent to prison seven years earlier over a robbery but never revealed where a set of stolen diamonds were hidden. After Rocky is reported to be in New York, Johnny tracks him through an informant and a rooming house, where a man has been shot. Johnny goes undercover in a disguise and takes a waiter's job at a restaurant, hoping to find Rocky and the diamonds. The story follows his efforts to identify the man he has been searching for and to locate the jewels.

New York City, late 1950s, including an insurance company office, a rooming house near the Brooklyn Bridge, and a restaurant

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Rocky Harrison, Ted Buzzam, Soder, Randy Singer, Pete Monaster

Listen for: Johnny's disguise and the way he locates Rocky at the restaurant

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.