Rocky takes a Christmas job as a department-store detective and temporary Santa, then finds the regular Santa murdered after a recent ,000 pearl robbery. A threatening note and a missing doll point to an inside accomplice who had used Santa to hide the stolen pearls, then stabbed him when he would not reveal where they were. Rocky survives a gunfight among the toy displays, captures the killer and discovers the missing pearls inside the child’s doll, earning its young owner the reward.

This Rocky Fortune broadcast aired on December 22, 1953. It is listed as episode 11 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Frank Sinatra, Theodore Von Eltz, Mary McGovern, Kay Stewart, and Frank Gerstle. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director and George Lefferts as writer.

The surviving recording runs about 25 minutes. Characters credited in this version include Rocky Fortune.