The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 3, 1956)

“The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 3, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, pursues the stolen diamonds and the killer of Sebastian, a man who had given him a picture postcard as part of a key to their hiding place. Johnny follows the trail to the ski resort of Klibeck in Switzerland, where Ilza Shafer, a woman he met in Zurich, has turned up. Ilza claims she came to ski and that she knew Sebastian only as a friend. Their outing on the ridges turns dangerous when shots are fired at them. Johnny then climbs toward a mountain halfway house pictured on a second postcard, which the murderer Gruner sent to Sebastian, and finds it torn apart. This is part of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, a CBS Radio series, first broadcast on October 3, 1956, starring Bob Bailey.

Switzerland, including Zurich and the Klibeck ski inn and its surrounding mountain ridges

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ilza Shafer, Sebastian, Gruner, Jeffrey Harris, Otto, Inspector Honegger

Listen for: The second postcard's picture of the mountain halfway house, and Johnny's suspicion of Ilza Shafer's story

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.