Vintage Radio -- The Squared Circle Matter

[neotoma]

Tonight's episode of The Big Broadcast played both episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar's 'The Squared Circle Matter'.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a 1950s radio show about a private insurance investigator, and I love it! It's full of historical details, because one of the premises of the show is Johnny Dollar (the insurance investigator) writes up his expense accounts on air. You get to hear how much a plane flight from Joplin, Missouri to Monterrey, Mexico cost in 1956, or what a diner breakfast cost, or a hotel room.

In this story, it is Johnny investigating a suspiciously high life insurance policy on a prize-fighter, who may be set up by his manager to take a fatal blow in his next fight.

Comments

[malkingrey]

Oh, wow. Somebody else who likes Johnny Dollar! We listen to him on SiriusXM's Old Time Radio channel.

Maybe next year somebody will ask for Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar as a Yuletide fandom. (I just checked -- there's currently a grand total of one Johnny Dollar fic on AO3.)

[neotoma]

The Big Broadcast is WAMU's longest running program, and they usually have one story from Johnny Dollar on every week. I like it because it's very noir.

I'm also fond of Gunsmoke, as the radio program was rather melancholy.

I think next year I'll have to actually plan and nominate Johnny Dollar.