What happens
Gildersleeve returns home to find new neighbors moving into the house next door, the Dobsons, whose furnishings and noisy household unsettle him and his niece Marjorie. Tensions rise quickly when the movers damage his driveway, the Dobsons' son Tuffy causes trouble with a newspaper and a baseball, and a quarrel between Leroy and the boy escalates. Gildersleeve, convinced he can handle the situation through good neighborliness, decides he needs to sharpen his fighting skills. This episode of The Great Gildersleeve, broadcast on NBC on March 22, 1942, stars Harold Peary, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town where Gildersleeve lives with his niece Marjorie and nephew Leroy, next to the newly rented house of the Dobson family.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Bertie, Leroy, Tuffy Dobson, Dorothy Dobson, Mr. Dobson, Philip
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts at being a good neighbor, the escalating feud with Tuffy, and his visit to Philadelphia Phil's Physical Culture Institute to learn boxing.
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.