What happens
Johnny Dollar is hired by insurance company Matt McCracken to investigate a string of cashed-in policies in small farming towns. Dollar travels to Enterprise, New Jersey, where a man named John D. Morgan is promising townspeople they can double their money in three weeks. Dollar meets the local police chief, Walter, and the publisher of the town paper, Mr. Lowry, who has been warning residents about Morgan. Dollar works to test Morgan's intentions, enlisting the town's cooperation and their money. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and this episode aired on CBS Radio on December 13, 1959, starring Bob Bailey.
Enterprise, New Jersey, and farm country around Philadelphia, in the late 1950s
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pat McCracken, Chief Walters, Mr. Lowry, John D. Morgan, Mr. Peterson
Listen for: Dollar's plan to draw Morgan out, and how the townspeople respond to the new front-page apology
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.