The Sea Legs Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 3, 1956)

“The Sea Legs Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 3, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, travels to San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua to look into the loss of the yacht Sea Legs, which was reported wrecked and whose owner, Douglas Landry, was supposedly lost with it. Dollar suspects the claim is not what it appears and begins questioning the people involved, including Landry's wife Connie. He finds the wreck was never a wreck at all, and that the crew members said to have gone down with the ship may still be alive. The episode is part of the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, with Bob Bailey in the title role.

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, and the nearby waters and islands

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Connie Landry, Douglas Landry, Captain Ramirez, Oscar Patrick, Vladimir Pascal

Listen for: The moment Dollar realizes the wreck of the Sea Legs was staged and what Connie Landry has been hiding

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.