The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 5, 1956)

“The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, is hunting uncut diamonds stolen in a Zurich robbery and hidden in the Swiss town of Kleibach. The case turns on a set of picture postcards sent by the dead Gruner to his partner Sebastian, showing the inn, a ski hut on a ridge, and the village square. Dollar questions Geoffrey Harris, an Englishman with a rifle, and an innkeeper named Otto, and he finds that the postcards form a map. Bob Bailey stars in this Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episode, first broadcast by CBS Radio on October 5, 1956.

Kleibach, Switzerland, a small village with an inn, a ski hut on a ridge, and a town square

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Elsa, Geoffrey Harris, Gruner, Sebastian, Otto, Anton, Inspector Hunter

Listen for: Dollar working out the three postcards as a map and his confrontation in the barn

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.