The Takes A Crook Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 18, 1962)

“The Takes A Crook Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 18, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is attacked and knocked unconscious in his garage while retrieving evidence—a fake mouth—from his car trunk. When he comes to, the evidence has been stolen. Dollar must determine who struck him and locate the missing evidence before the federal agents arrive from Washington.

Johnny Dollar's apartment building and garage in the evening, with references to Washington and the Manhart Gallery

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Les Walters, Hal

Listen for: The details of what the stolen evidence is, who attacked Johnny, and how the fake mouth connects to the Maure Madonna painting and the federal investigation

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.