The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 2, 1956)

“The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 2, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, travels to Zurich to look into the theft of a hundred thousand dollars in uncut diamonds taken from a courier at the airport. He has been sent to meet a man named Sebastian, who claimed to know where the stones are, but Sebastian is found dead in his hotel bathtub before they can talk. Dollar receives only a picture postcard addressed to Sebastian, and he follows it to the Kleibach Inn in a small Alpine village. Part of the story is told in the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on October 2, 1956, with Bob Bailey in the lead role. At the inn, Dollar meets Elsa Schafer, a woman connected to the airport incident.

Zurich, Switzerland, and the Kleibach Inn, a resort in a village in the Alps

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Inspector Hannegger, Sebastian, Elsa Schafer, Otto, Jeffrey Harris

Listen for: Dollar's visit to the Kleibach Inn and his meeting with Elsa Schafer

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.