The Missing Mouse Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (December 23, 1956)

“The Missing Mouse Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 23, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Fluids of England company, is asked to find a singing mouse that has gone missing from the Gillis estate in Rhode Island. Jadaia Gillis, an eccentric millionaire, insists the mouse, Gulliver, was kidnapped, and his houseguest Bert Glazer, who owns the mouse, claims it can sing. Johnny meets the household and its suspicious circumstances while the Christmas Eve show for a children's hospital looms. This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar aired on CBS Radio on December 23, 1956, and stars Bob Bailey, with Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell also in the lead roles.

Rhode Island and Providence, during the Christmas holidays, at the Gillis mansion and a children's hospital

Characters: Johnny Dollar, George Reed, Jadaia Gillis, Marion Gillis, Bert Glazer, Harry McQueen, Bobby Neeves

Listen for: The claims about Gulliver's singing and Bert Glazer's account of his performance with Hecuba and Esmeralda

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.