The What Goes Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (October 30, 1960)

“The What Goes Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 30, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, flies to Los Angeles after an anonymous caller claims a client is in danger and urges him to come at once. At the airport a stranger bumps into him and vanishes, and a phone call the stranger placed soon goes dead. Dollar and Earl Pullman search the company's policy files for the client, whose policy is worth a third of a million dollars. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the episode was first broadcast on CBS Radio on October 30, 1960, and Bob Bailey stars as Dollar.

Albany, New York, and then Los Angeles, California, including the airport, the Pullmans' home in Brentwood and a house on North Bundy Drive

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Earl Pullman, Mike Pullman, Barney Sieliger

Listen for: The anonymous phone call at the Pullmans' home and the cut telephone line

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.