The Price of Fame Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 2, 1958)

“The Price of Fame Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 2, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired by Vincent Price after a valuable painting, Night Wind by Jean-Baptiste, is stolen from Price's Los Angeles home and replaced with a copy. Price suspects Bert Parker, an insurance agent who had visited the house, and the two men trace the missing agent's movements. Dollar works his way through Paris, posing as a Texas buyer to make contact with the people who may be handling the stolen work. This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar originally aired on CBS Radio on February 2, 1958, with Bob Bailey in the lead role and Vincent Price as a guest star.

Los Angeles, Hartford, and Paris in the late 1950s

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Vincent Price, Bert Parker, Miss Pritt, Mr. Myers, La Chagrini

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's expense account entries and the scene where he poses as a Texas buyer in Paris

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.