What happens
Gildersleeve walks Paula Winthrop home late one night, and their parked car stirs up trouble with her brother, the grumpy neighbor Rumsen Bullard. Bullard grows convinced that Gildersleeve intends to give Paula an engagement ring. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on February 13, 1952. Harold Peary and Willard Waterman lead the cast. Gildersleeve, Bullard and Paula all become entangled in the mix-up over the ring, as Bullard reacts to rumors and misunderstandings.
Summerfield, the quiet town where Gildersleeve lives across the street from the Bullards, including the Bullard driveway, Peavey's drugstore and the jeweler next door.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Paula Winthrop, Rumsen Bullard, Leroy, Bertie, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Marjorie
Listen for: Bullard's escalating suspicion over the ring and the ridiculous claim about a family tradition.
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.