The Port-O-Call Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 13, 1951)

“The Port-O-Call Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 13, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in San Francisco to investigate a series of four coordinated robberies at loan company branches that netted $47,000. When a taxi driver goes missing the same day as the heists, Dollar becomes convinced the cabbie may be connected to the crimes, leading him to question the driver's wife and search for clues among other cab company employees.

San Francisco, California in the 1950s, including police headquarters, a taxi company office, and an apartment building on Turk Street.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Bob Ratton, Lieutenant Clark, Mrs. Joe Gyer, Joe Gyer, Paul Landini, Bruce

Listen for: The description of the coordinated robbery spree across San Francisco and Johnny Dollar's deduction that a taxi driver might have been the getaway driver for the thieves.

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.