What happens
Leroy Forrester, the Great Gildersleeve's nephew, comes home with a colony of bees after his uncle gives him five dollars to start a small business at home. Gildersleeve, who had hoped for a quiet day at the ballgame, soon finds the bees harassing everyone in the house, and he struggles to get out and keep his date with Paula. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC comedy series, and this episode aired on April 16, 1952. Willard Waterman plays Gildersleeve, with Harold Peary and Lillian Randolph among the regulars heard in the cast.
Summerfield, spring, the Gildersleeve house and the neighborhood around it
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Paula, Judge Hooker, Birdie, Mr. Peavey
Listen for: Gildersleeve trying to sneak out of the house past the bees, and the sudden bargain at the end
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.