The Super Salesman Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 6, 1960)

“The Super Salesman Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 6, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, looks into the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to Mrs. Rorschmann. A jeweler named Clayton Parker is suspected of swapping the real necklace for a phony one. Dollar searches the jeweler's shop with an accomplice, then poses as a vacuum cleaner salesman to get inside Parker's home. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on November 6, 1960, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

Hartford and the city, including a small jewelry shop and the Parkers' home

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mrs. Rorschmann, Clayton Parker, Fingers, Pat McCrack, Mrs. Parker

Listen for: Dollar's attempt to pass himself off as a vacuum cleaner salesman in the Parkers' home

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.