What happens
Water Commissioner Throgmorton P. Gildersleeve learns that Mayor Hooker plans to dismiss Police Chief Gates for never making arrests. Gildersleeve pledges to save the chief's job, and his friend Floyd Munson devises a scheme to have a petty thief named Rollie Jones break into Mr. Peavy's drugstore so the chief can make a spectacular arrest. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on December 13, 1950. Willard Waterman plays Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle and Harold Peary also in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town in winter, including the Gildersleeve house, the mayor's office, the Jolly Boys meeting, the drugstore and the city jail.
Characters: Throgmorton P. Gildersleeve, Floyd Munson, Chief Gates, Mayor Hooker, Judge Hooker, Rollie Jones, Mr. Peavy, Leroy
Listen for: Listen for Gildersleeve's pledge to the Jolly Boys and the mayor's threat to fire him, and for the plan to get Rollie Jones to break into the drugstore.
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.