The Primrose Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 11, 1956)

“The Primrose Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 11, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates a $100,000 payroll robbery connected to a wrecked car, three murders, and mysterious happenings at Primrose Camp. He arranges to meet ranger Jed Marsh at a fire patrol phone, but is ambushed by Spade Keller, a wanted criminal from the gang that pulled the heist. When Jed arrives, he too is captured, and the two men find themselves at gunpoint with no clear way out of the trap.

Primrose Camp in the mountains, near a forest ranger fire patrol phone on a summit road at night.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jet Marsh, Pop Bardell, Spade Keller, Jipper Knitsen

Listen for: The tense confrontation between Johnny and Spade Keller as Johnny pieces together Spade's criminal identity, followed by Jed Marsh's arrival and capture, with both men now held at gunpoint by a desperate killer.

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.