Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 24, 1958)

“Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 24, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to look into the death of wealthy Broadway producer Lamont Scofield, who died supposedly of natural causes. The insurance company suspects his nurse and current beneficiary, Mary T. Smith, may have hastened his death with an overdose of medication to collect the $750,000 policy.

Hartford, Connecticut and Cranford, New Jersey

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Waldo R. Westbury, Dr. Lamont Scofield, Mary T. Smith, Doctor

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's investigation into whether the nurse caused the death of her wealthy employer to collect insurance money; the doctor's revelation that he has ordered an autopsy.

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.