What happens
Detective-minded Throckmorton Gildersleeve is drawn into a case when his neighbor's sister, Ellen Knickerbacher, reports that her fur coat and diamond necklace have been stolen. Gildersleeve, eager to prove his skills, sets out to catch the burglar, while his nephew Leroy and his friend Judge Hooker are caught up in the scheme. Harold Peary stars as Gildersleeve in this episode of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on April 27, 1949. The story follows Gildersleeve's attempts to trap the thief with a series of schemes, several of which go awry.
Summerfield, the Bullard house and neighborhood
Characters: Throckmorton Gildersleeve, Ellen Knickerbacher, Leroy, Marjorie, Judge Hooker, Mr. Bullard, Bertie, Mr. Wall
Listen for: Gildersleeve's plans to catch the burglar and the mishaps that follow
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.