What happens
Chester A. Riley and his lifelong friend James Gillis are named the Good Neighbors of the week by the community council during Good Neighbor Week. Their friendship is soon tested when a fight breaks out between Riley's son Junior and Gillis's son Egbert, and the two men begin quarrelling too. Riley suspects Gillis of cooking his prized pigeon Douglas, and the dispute escalates. The series, a 1946 episode of The Life of Riley, first aired on October 5, 1946, on the Blue Network/ABC and NBC, with William Bendix in the lead role.
A residential neighborhood during Good Neighbor Week, including a high school auditorium, the Riley and Gillis homes and a local newspaper.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, James Gillis, Peg Riley, Junior Riley, Egbert Gillis, Digby O'Dell, Douglas
Listen for: Riley's accusation over the missing pigeon Douglas and the police arrival at the Gillis house.
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.