The Shepherd Matter - Ep 2: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 17, 1956)

“The Shepherd Matter - Ep 2” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 17, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to determine if Dr. Shepherd's life is genuinely threatened by Paul Forbes, or if the doctor is fabricating the danger to secure a large insurance policy. Dollar visits Dr. Shepherd's office and then heads to Forbes's home to confront him, but is violently attacked upon arrival.

A city's doctor's office and the Forbes family home in a gilded residential area

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Porter, Dr. Shepherd, Paul Forbes, Mrs. Pauline Forbes, Nurse Steter, Brandon Upton

Listen for: The mystery of Paul Forbes's violent behavior and whether Dr. Shepherd's insurance claim is legitimate or a deception

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.