The Night in Paris Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 16, 1959)

“The Night in Paris Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 16, 1959. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, travels to Paris to recover a stolen necklace after a contact named Louis de Marseilles offers a lead on the missing diamonds. Dollar pays for the information, and on arrival he finds Marseilles' apartment ransacked and the man himself gone. Dollar learns that a dealer named Francois Dubisan may have the diamond, and he meets Annette Dubon on the flight and later at his hotel. Set on the Johnny Dollar series, this episode aired on CBS Radio on August 16, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the lead role. The story is fictional and is told in the first person by Dollar.

Paris, France, and a Hartford-based insurance office, with flashbacks to a flight from New York to Paris

Characters: Johnny Dollar, George Reed, Louis de Marseilles, Annette Dubon, Francois Dubisan

Listen for: Dollar's arrival in Paris and his meeting with Louis de Marseilles at the ransacked apartment

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.