The Time and Tide Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 16, 1958)

“The Time and Tide Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 16, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar looks into the disappearance of Ed Rollins, who recently changed his mind about marrying Virginia Blake and naming her beneficiary of a large policy. Dollar's trail leads from Nassau to Crooked Island and then to a boat where Rollins, Virginia, Bill Winslow and Tony Atherton are cruising. Rollins seems to have had a close call underwater, and Dollar begins to suspect that someone may have tampered with his air supply. Dollar joins the group aboard the boat as they sail toward Jamaica. This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is from the CBS Radio series, first broadcast on February 16, 1958, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

Nassau, Crooked Island and Jamaica, aboard Ed Rollins' cabin cruiser

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ed Rollins, Virginia Blake, Bill Winslow, Tony Atherton, Brad, Pat McCracken

Listen for: Dollar's questions aboard the boat about Rollins' air supply and the tubing that was found cut

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.