What happens
Gildersleeve sends his nephew Leroy and the household to sell an old iron deer ornament from the storeroom to raise money for Christmas after the family's cash has been tied up in defense bonds. Leroy sells the deer to a junk dealer, Mr. Skinner, but the deer then goes missing, and Skinner threatens to have Leroy arrested. Llewellyn, who has joined the household as a bookkeeper, helps sort out the confusion. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on December 14, 1941, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
The Gildersleeve household in a small town in the United States, around December 1941, during the Christmas season.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie, Mr. Skinner, Llewellyn, Marjorie, Mr. Abernathy, Joe Bush
Listen for: Leroy's bargaining with the junk dealers and the confusion over who has the iron deer.
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.