The Skidmore Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 22, 1962)

“The Skidmore Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 22, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to the small Texas town of Skidmore to investigate a series of thefts from a warehouse belonging to Doug Johnson, who runs a home for old folks in Corpus Christi. Heavy equipment parts worth thousands of dollars have been disappearing from the storage facility, and the elderly watchman Jose Hernandez is determined to stop the thieves with his oversized six-gun.

Skidmore, Texas and Corpus Christi area; a warehouse facility near the small town

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Jack Price, Doug Johnson, Jose Hernandez, Carmella

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's investigation into the warehouse thefts and his first meeting with the protective but trigger-happy watchman Jose Hernandez

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.