What happens
Gildersleeve hurries across Summerfield on a snowy Christmas evening to visit Paula Winthrop, and he is jealous of Bruce Pendleton, a visitor from Dayton who has sent her a mysterious gift. Determined to outdo his rival, Gildersleeve goes shopping for something better and asks friends and shopkeepers for ideas. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running radio comedy, and this Christmas episode was first broadcast on NBC on December 19, 1951, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. Gildersleeve's search for the perfect present takes him from the department store to the children's home.
Summerfield, a snowy town at Christmastime
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Paula Winthrop, Bruce Pendleton, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Judge Hooker, Phoebe
Listen for: Gildersleeve's jealous plans to outdo his rival Bruce Pendleton with a better Christmas gift for Paula
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.