The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Unedited Drama Portions): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 16, 1950)

“The Sidney Rykoff Matter (Unedited Drama Portions)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 16, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar races against time to deliver a $25,000 ransom for kidnapped boxer Sidney Reichhoff, who has seven hours to live. After navigating a dangerous storm to reach Kansas City by midnight and leaving the money at a cemetery mausoleum, Johnny begins investigating Reichhoff's background the next morning, discovering the boxer may not be what he seems.

Kansas City, Missouri and its surroundings; an athletic club; a cemetery; Reichhoff's home

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Dallai, Sidney Reichhoff, Gary Medill, Reichhoff's wife, plane pilot, cemetery contact

Listen for: The tense countdown to the ransom deadline; Johnny's dangerous charter flight through a storm; revelations about Reichhoff's character, his wife's demanding nature, and his boxing career; the mystery of whether the kidnapping is genuine.

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.