The Shadow of a Doubt Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 25, 1962)

“The Shadow of a Doubt Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 25, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar flies to Los Angeles at the request of his old friend Ted Orloff to investigate an embezzlement at a bottling plant owned by Barney Garrison. Garrison claims that nearly $170,000 has been stolen and believes his business partner Ralph Betterly is responsible, though Betterly hasn't yet been confronted about the missing money.

Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California, with scenes at a bottling plant, an airport, and Garrison's resort home

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ted Orloff, Barney Garrison, Ralph Betterly

Listen for: Garrison's suspicious behavior and his insistence that his partner Betterly is guilty despite having only circumstantial reasoning

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.