The Plantagent Matter - Ep 1: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 5, 1956)

“The Plantagent Matter - Ep 1” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives at the Plantagen Hotel in Vicksburg, Virginia to investigate a burglary that has already been solved—the thief caught and all stolen goods recovered. While waiting for a flight back to Hartford, Johnny encounters a distressed blonde woman being threatened by a man in the parking lot. After buying her a drink to calm her nerves, she suddenly collapses in a taxi with mysterious symptoms, leaving Johnny to rush her to the emergency hospital.

The Plantagen Hotel in Vicksburg, Virginia, its bar and parking lot, and Vicksburg emergency hospital; winter weather, 1956.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Costello, The blonde woman (Amy), The tall dark man, Cab driver, Hospital staff

Listen for: The mysterious illness that strikes the woman just as she's leaving; Johnny's growing concern about what really happened in that parking lot; the unanswered questions about the man's threat and the woman's cryptic gratitude.

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.