The Midas Touch Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 5, 1956)

“The Midas Touch Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates the deaths of Kevin Haskell and his brother in what was supposedly a mine accident at the Two-Lazy-Two Ranch. When Hard Luck Dennis, who discovered evidence the deaths were actually murder, is himself killed, Johnny pursues a Jeep into the desert and comes under rifle fire. He traces the vehicle to the ranch and confronts Dora Haskell, widow of Kevin, about who might have murdered her husband and his brother for profit.

Lake Mojave Resort on the Colorado River in Arizona, the desert, and the Two-Lazy-Two Ranch

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Buster, Hard Luck Dennis, Jake Kessler, Alex Bundy, Dora Haskell, Kevin Haskell

Listen for: The tension builds as Johnny pursues a mysterious Jeep across the desert, comes under fire from a high-powered rifle, and arrives at the ranch to question the widow about a murder disguised as a mine accident.

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.