Love Thy Neighbor: The Great Gildersleeve (January 12, 1949)

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“Love Thy Neighbor” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 12, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve decides to be friendlier with his neighbor Mr. Bullard after a dispute over a can box, and Marjorie and Leroy go along with his new good-neighbor policy. The first winter morning, Bullard scolds him for leaving the can box in the driveway again. Things soon go sour when a snowball fight starts between Leroy and Craig Bullard. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on January 12, 1949, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.

The Gildersleeve household and the neighboring Bullard home on a winter day in the town of Summerfield, with a visit to the local drugstore.

Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Birdie, Bullard, Craig, Peavey, Judge Hooker

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to be friendly with Bullard, the can box dispute, and the snowball fight between Leroy and Craig.

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.