The Temperamental Tote Board Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 1, 1954)

“The Temperamental Tote Board Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 1, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to San Juan, Puerto Rico to investigate a $50,000 claim on Luis Alvarado, co-owner of a racetrack found murdered with a winning lottery ticket in his hand. As Dollar digs into the case, he uncovers a scheme involving forged winning tickets and discovers the killer is someone close to the Alvarado family with connections to the racetrack's operations.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, primarily at the Condado race track and surrounding locations including the Hilton hotel and police headquarters.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Captain Cardenas, Ben Gordon, Luis Alvarado, Jose Alvarado, Tomas Alvarado, Tony Randolph, Maria

Listen for: The details of how a scheme to forge winning lottery tickets at the racetrack led to murder, and the revelation of who was working behind the scenes to manipulate the young Tomas Alvarado.

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.