The Who's Who Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (February 5, 1961)

“The Who's Who Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 5, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator based in Hartford, is confronted by a man in Fort Worth, Texas, who claims to be Johnny Dollar and has been handling cases for Western Indemnity. Dollar travels to Texas to find out who is impersonating him. Along the way he is drawn into an arson investigation at a Dallas department store for Greater Southwest Insurance Company, where a fire has damaged the second floor. The Johnny Dollar series aired on CBS Radio, and this episode was broadcast on February 5, 1961, starring Bob Bailey.

Hartford, Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, around 1961

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ted Beckham, Al Pinker, Pat McCracken, Carol, Sergeant Mackenzie

Listen for: Dollar's confrontation with the impostor in the Western Indemnity office and the fire-damaged department store in Dallas

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.