The Short Term Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (January 29, 1961)

“The Short Term Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 29, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator still recovering from a back injury, takes on a case against Larry Moody, a thief who stole about $33,000 from a Trenton department store safe. Bill Tilson, his employer at the insurance company, tries to keep him from working. Dollar travels to Pemberton, New Jersey, where Moody has been jailed on another charge. Dollar devises a plan to get inside the jail and make contact with him. The episode is from the radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on January 29, 1961, starring Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell.

New Jersey and Hartford in the early 1960s, including Trenton, Pemberton, and a railroad area near New Lisbon

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Bill Tilson, Larry Moody, Lieutenant Walter Ivan, Mike

Listen for: Dollar's plan to get himself locked up in Pemberton in order to reach Moody

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.