The Silver Blue Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 10, 1956)

“The Silver Blue Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 10, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Los Angeles to recover $100,000 worth of stolen silver-blue fur coats taken in a warehouse robbery. A gang member named Eddie Mottie, sister of the victim Carla, has fled with a gun after nearly shooting his sister. Dollar searches Eddie's room and discovers photographs of a panel truck that may have been used to transport the stolen furs, leading him to interrogate a suspect named Mario Santores.

Los Angeles, California; a tenement apartment in the slums and a police interrogation room

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Eddie Mottie, Carla (Eddie's sister), Mario Santores, Police lieutenant

Listen for: The investigation into the stolen furs and the panel truck; the interrogation of Mario Santores and his denials; Johnny's reasoning about why he didn't shoot Eddie despite the opportunity.

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.