The Net of Circumstance Matter (1): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 8, 1959)

“The Net of Circumstance Matter (1)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 8, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator working for the tri-state life and casualty company, travels to Sarasota after Bill Hall's men's shop is robbed of about ten thousand dollars in merchandise. The night watchman, Jimson Cooley, is missing, and blood is found behind the store. Johnny questions Hall, Sergeant Drummond, a witness who saw a pickup truck leaving the scene, and Jimson's wife, while Earl Pullman drives him around town. The episode is an installment of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on March 8, 1959, starring Bob Bailey.

Sarasota, Florida, in the late 1950s

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Earl Pullman, Bill Hall, Jimson Cooley, Sergeant Drummond, Doc Crutcher, Mrs. Cooley

Listen for: The pickup truck sighting and the bloodstains behind the store, which Johnny's questions to Doc Crutcher and Mrs. Cooley begin to test.

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.