The Matter of the Medium, Well Done - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 17, 1956)

“The Matter of the Medium, Well Done - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 17, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar takes on a case to expose Madame Morgana Morgana, a spiritualist medium who has been draining his client Carol Sharp's bank account week after week. Carol's concerned friend Tony Ricardo enlists Dollar's help, and Dollar prepares by gathering intelligence on Carol's family before attending a séance at Morgana's home in New Jersey to observe her methods firsthand.

New York City and a séance parlor in Union City, New Jersey, 1956

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Carol Sharp, Tony Ricardo, Madame Morgana Morgana, Tommy Green, Sergeant Randy Singer, David Sharp, Mrs. Dorothy Jesser

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's clever setup to infiltrate the séance using a fake story about psychic dreams, his acquisition of a hidden camera with special flash equipment, and the atmospheric description of the séance room with its metal trumpet devices used to project spirit voices.

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.