What happens
On a frosty November night in Summerfield, Gildersleeve, the water commissioner, invites nurse Katie Milford to spend a quiet evening at home, but the plans are interrupted when Marjorie arrives with her boyfriend Bronco. Bronco, short of money and eager for a better job, asks for help, and Gildersleeve promises to get him a position with the city. The series The Great Gildersleeve, with Harold Peary in the title role, was first broadcast on NBC on November 16, 1949. The story follows Gildersleeve's attempts to arrange work for Bronco through the water department and city hall.
Summerfield, a small town; the Gildersleeve home and the water department office at city hall
Characters: Gildersleeve, Katie Milford, Marjorie, Bronco Thompson, Bessie, Leroy, Bertie, Peevee
Listen for: Gildersleeve's promise to get Bronco a job, and his sudden attempts to find one
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.