The Mc Clain Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 10, 1956)

“The Mc Clain Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 10, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar investigates Dr. Dave McLean, who is shot by a jealous man named Riley before the case unfolds. Johnny questions whether the McLeans' insurance claim regarding the death of a young woman named Theresa Corbett in McLean's office is genuine, suspecting the couple may have orchestrated something far more sinister than a natural death.

Los Angeles and the county jail, with scenes in a hospital and doctor's office.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Don Taylor, Dave McLean, Mrs. McLean, Theresa Corbett, Riley, the nurse

Listen for: Johnny's growing suspicion that the McLeans' story doesn't add up, and Mrs. McLean's gradual confession that Theresa Corbett was actually a patient of her husband's, not a stranger who simply collapsed.

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.