The Virtuous Mobster Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 22, 1958)

“The Virtuous Mobster Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 22, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, is called to Georgetown, South Carolina, after his old acquaintance Lefty Stemper and associates grow worried about Joe Piccatello, the local agent for Continental Insurance. Joe has not answered recent business correspondence, and the former gangsters living at the nearby plantation fear something has happened to him. Dollar travels to Georgetown and goes to Joe's office at night, where he is met with silence and then struck by men inside. Lefty, Flippy and Bully arrive and find him injured. The series, a CBS Radio program, aired on June 22, 1958, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.

New York City and Hartford, then Georgetown, South Carolina, at the former gangsters' plantation community and Joe Piccatello's office

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ben Orloff, Lefty Stemper, Flippy, Bully McGoon, Joe Piccatello, Willie the Lump, Chef Larko

Listen for: The late-night scene at Joe Piccatello's office, where Johnny Dollar is attacked and the gangsters arrive to find 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.