The Tip-Off Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 30, 1962)

“The Tip-Off Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 30, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar visits a dying safe cracker named Turner McGacky in a prison hospital ward. McGacky reveals that $100,000 from an old heist is hidden in a safe on Long Island, with the combination split between two men: Pirelli, posing as a fisherman, and Danny Rutsiloff, a dangerous criminal who is being released from prison that very day. Dollar must race to find Pirelli before the deadly Rutsiloff does.

A state prison hospital ward in Weathersfield, Connecticut, and a remote area near Cupsague on Long Island, New York

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Turner McGacky, Danny Rutsiloff, Pirelli, Dick Spindell, Warden, Assistant Warden, Gas station attendant

Listen for: The tense prison scene where McGacky urgently warns Dollar about the dangerous combination of circumstances, and Dollar's quick pivot to finding Pirelli before Rutsiloff reaches him.

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.