The Plantagent Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 8, 1956)

“The Plantagent Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 8, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator from Hartford, finds himself entangled in a murder case in Vicksburg after helping a distressed woman in a hotel parking lot. When the woman, Amy Doran, turns up dead from poisoning, Johnny discovers a .38 revolver in her purse registered to a deceased bank guard. The police suspect Amy of embezzling funds and murdering an auditor named Belden, but Johnny begins to doubt the official theory and seeks legal advice before turning over the gun.

Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Plantagenet Hotel, police station, and residential areas

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Samuel W. Oldfield, Lieutenant Akins, Amy Doran, Paul Dameron, Mrs. Teresa O'Connell, Clarence Belden, O'Connell

Listen for: Johnny's moral conflict over withholding evidence as he tries to protect Amy's memory, and the emerging questions about who really shot Belden and why Amy had the gun.

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.