The Shepherd Matter - Ep 5: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 20, 1956)

“The Shepherd Matter - Ep 5” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 20, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar interviews Paul Forbes, an angry man accused of murdering Dr. Shepard. Forbes admits he threatened Shepard over his wife Pauline's affair with the doctor, followed Shepard's car, and even called him to arrange a meeting, but claims he never saw the doctor and didn't kill him. As Johnny presses for details about Forbes's movements and motives, another woman enters—apparently a nurse who has loved Dr. Shepard for five years.

Johnny Dollar's hotel room in Providence, Rhode Island

Characters: Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator, Paul Forbes, the accused man, Dr. Shepard, deceased, Pauline Forbes, Paul's wife, An unnamed nurse

Listen for: The growing tension as Johnny interrogates Paul Forbes with a gun trained on him, extracting a confession of motive while Forbes insists on his innocence; the sudden appearance of the mysterious nurse at the end.

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.