The Road-Test Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 2, 1954)

“The Road-Test Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 2, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to look into a series of mysterious accidents at an automobile manufacturer's testing facility. Three experimental cars have crashed during road tests, each driven by experienced test drivers, and Dollar must determine whether sabotage, mechanical failure, or something more sinister is behind the disasters.

An automobile testing facility and surrounding town, 1954

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. King, McGregor, Mrs. Grace Johnson, Joe Simmons, Steve Johnson, Kelly

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's investigation into the three car crashes, his interviews with the test facility manager and the widow of one of the killed drivers, and his search for a man with possible motive

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.