What happens
Gildersleeve notices a Christmas card from his old friend Judge Hooker and decides he has neglected him. Leroy and Bertie encourage him, and Gildy visits the judge's house, where he finds a butler and a dinner party full of wealthy guests. Feeling snubbed, Gildy grows angry, and a quarrel with the judge follows. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio series, first broadcast on December 16, 1953, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. Peavey, Gildy's friend at the pharmacy, becomes involved in the falling out.
Summerfield, a small town, during the Christmas season
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Mrs. Peavey, W. Rockswell Logan
Listen for: The judge's dinner party and the quarrel between Gildy and Judge Hooker
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.