The No Matter Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 16, 1962)

“The No Matter Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 16, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar arrives at Raymond Tilleton's apartment in response to a late-night phone call, only to find a dead brunette woman with a bullet wound. When he confronts Tilleton at his office, the man claims he was in New Haven all night visiting his mother and never called Johnny. Johnny must unravel what really happened and why someone impersonated Tilleton.

An apartment building called the Kearnsley Arms, later Tilleton's office, and a house in New Haven

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Raymond Tilleton, Police Detective Austin, A dead brunette woman, Tilleton's elderly mother

Listen for: The mystery of who really called Johnny Dollar and why a dead woman appears in Tilleton's apartment when he claims to have been elsewhere all night.

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.