The Matter of the Medium, Well Done - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 16, 1956)

“The Matter of the Medium, Well Done - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 16, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar attends a séance conducted by a medium named Player Bell to investigate a case involving Carol Sharpe and Tony Ricardo. During the séance, the medium produces mysterious revelations about various objects, including a watch and a police badge, before the gathering is suddenly disrupted by what appears to be a police raid.

A séance in an old brownstone house on the West 40s in New York City, with previous scenes at a police precinct station.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sergeant Randy Singer, Carol Sharpe, Tony Ricardo, Anthony Ricardo Jr., Player Bell, the medium

Listen for: The theatrical séance performance with red-lit ambiance, eerie music, and the medium's cryptic pronouncements about objects and their owners; the sudden chaos when a police badge is revealed.

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.