The Stanley Price Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 1, 1953)

“The Stanley Price Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 1, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called in to look into the theft of 100,000 dollars worth of jewels from a home at 956 East 114th Street. A man named Stanley Price called the police to tip them off, but was then shot dead along with another man, Robert Wells. The jewels have been taken out of their settings and recut to avoid identification, and Stanley Price has disappeared.

New York City, including police headquarters, a hotel, a brownstone in the Village, and the waterfront at Schooner Landing

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Annalie Conrad, Robert Wells, Stanley Price, Mrs. Wells, Henri Duval

Listen for: Johnny Dollar interviews police detective Conrad about the case, then seeks out his friend Henri Duval at a brownstone in the Village to learn about Stanley Price's whereabouts, following leads that take him to the waterfront.

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.