What happens
Gildersleeve takes his nephew Leroy to a furniture store to buy a new bed as a surprise for his niece Marjorie, who is away at a Red Cross training school. Store owner Samuel Sledderman shows them several beds, and Gildersleeve becomes absorbed in finding one that suits her room. The shop is run by Sledderman and his employees, and the story proceeds through a series of comic misunderstandings about the purchase. The Great Gildersleeve was a radio comedy series, and this episode was first broadcast on NBC on January 18, 1942, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
A furniture store in Summerfield, where Gildersleeve and Leroy shop for a bed for Marjorie's room.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Samuel Sledderman, Morris Sledderman, Bertie, Marjorie, Patricia Van Scudder
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to choose a bed for Marjorie and the furniture dealers' comic bargaining over the bed.
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.