The Melancholy Memory Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 28, 1957)

“The Melancholy Memory Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 28, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, looks into the disappearance of Harry Haley, a baseball player for the Spartans, after his sister Mildred Womack files a claim on his life insurance. Womack believes Haley's new wife, a Mexican woman, is responsible, and Dollar questions teammates, the police and the sister to gather facts. Haley's abandoned car is found across the border, and Dollar follows the trail south to the small town of Magdalena. This is an episode of the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on April 28, 1957, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

Hartford, Connecticut, and Tucson, Arizona, during spring training, with a trip across the Mexican border to Magdalena

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Harry Haley, Mildred Womack, Lieutenant Knight, Crawford, Dr. George M. Wolf

Listen for: Dollar questioning Mildred Womack about her brother and the claim, and the moment in Magdalena when the case takes an unexpected turn

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.