The Phantom Chase Matter - Ep 10 (9th of 9): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 26, 1956)

“The Phantom Chase Matter - Ep 10 (9th of 9)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 26, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, tracks the fugitive embezzler Tom Chase to Barbados, where Chase's wife Lola and business partner George Everson are also involved. Chase threatens Dollar, then is later found dead at the foot of a cliff, and Dollar begins to doubt the official account of the case. This is the ninth and final episode of the Phantom Chase Matter, from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on October 26, 1956. Bob Bailey stars as Dollar, with Edmond O'Brien and John Lund in the cast.

Barbados, British West Indies, and the Universal Adjustment Bureau office in Hartford, Connecticut, with flashbacks to New York and New Orleans

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Tom Chase, Lola Chase, George Everson, Inspector Wissett, Pat McCracken

Listen for: Dollar's realization, near the end, of how the handwriting sample exposes the deception

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.