What happens
Gildersleeve gets a flat tire and is given a spare inner tube by Judge Hooker, a kind gesture that prompts him and his household to plan a testimonial dinner for the judge's twentieth anniversary on the bench. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie and Margie sell tickets around town, but the plan goes awry when a notorious gangster buys a hundred tickets and Judge Hooker finds himself the target of mysterious trouble. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on May 31, 1942, starring Harold Peary.
Summerfield, a small town where Gildersleeve lives with his niece and nephew and the household staff.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie, Margie, Judge Hooker, Mr. Corbett, Mrs. Twitchell, Duffy
Listen for: The surprise dinner preparations, the gangster Beer Barrel Buck's ticket purchase, and the theft of Judge Hooker's gavel.
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.