The Story of the Ten-O-Eight (Unedited Drama Portions): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 18, 1950)

“The Story of the Ten-O-Eight (Unedited Drama Portions)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 18, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A freight car on the Atlantic Central Railway is broken into and half its cargo stolen between Buffalo and Batavia. Johnny Dollar investigates the theft, discovering tire marks and an abandoned shack, then finds a wrecked yellow truck with a dying driver named Blakey who implicates someone named Jake before expiring.

Buffalo and upstate New York along the Atlantic Central Railway line, including Batavia, the junction, a rural shack, a wrecked truck site, and the Horseshoe Bar and Grill

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Harry Pullen, Mr. Grims, Andy Mattson, Skeeter Minkowski, Ruth Smith, Eaf Grams, Bogotus

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's quick deduction about how the theft was committed, the mysterious Ruth Smith asking questions about trains, the discovery of the yellow truck and Blakey's dying accusation of Jake

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.