The Primrose Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 12, 1956)

“The Primrose Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 12, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

Listen to Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock: every episode, in the order it first aired. No sign-up.

What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Mid-States Industrial Insurance Company, tracks gangster Jiffrinitz, who held up an armored truck in Kansas City and killed two guards. The trail leads to the Primrose tourist camp in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, run by Pop Bardell, his wife Myra, and their daughter Jenny. Johnny persuades the Bardells to help him reach the gang hideout before the police move in at noon. The episode is from the series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on October 12, 1956, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

Primrose tourist camp, Santa Rita National Forest, Arizona, and a nearby silver mine tunnel

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jed Marsh, Pop Bardell, Myra Bardell, Jenny Bardell, Jiffrinitz, Spade Keller, Lieutenant

Listen for: Johnny's plan to reach the hideout without endangering Jenny, and the confrontation inside the tunnel

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.