The Radioactive Gold Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 27, 1954)

“The Radioactive Gold Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 27, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A lethal radioactive gold isotope disappears from Washington Research Hospital in South Bend, Indiana. Johnny Dollar is called in to investigate after the gold surfaces at a local pawn shop, sold by a man claiming to have scraped it from his television store windows. With the dangerous material now loose in the city, Dollar must track down the seller before the radiation claims another victim.

South Bend, Indiana, 1954; Washington Research Hospital, police headquarters, and a pawn shop.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Dr. Reed Mackinlock, Miss Lowan, Lieutenant Redos, Goldie, Parker, Steve

Listen for: The race to identify and locate a man dying from radiation exposure; the discovery that a deadly radioactive isotope has been sold to an unsuspecting pawn broker.

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.