What happens
Jerry of the Circus follows young Jerry and the circus crew after Spike, a roustabout, is arrested for passing counterfeit money. Detective Hadley and Mr. Randall search Spike's sleeping car and find a package of bad bills hidden in his mattress, and Spike insists he was framed. Jerry believes him and visits Spike in jail, where Spike recalls a former prison cellmate who was a counterfeiter. Jerry sets out to clear Spike's name. The original air date is November 1, 1937. The lead actors are not named in the transcript.
A traveling circus, including its sleeping cars and mess tent, and a town jail where Spike is held.
Characters: Jerry, Spike, Hadley, Mr. Randall, Bumps
Listen for: Jerry's insistence that Spike is innocent, and Spike's account of his former prison cellmate.
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.