Apartment for Bronco and Marjorie: The Great Gildersleeve (April 5, 1950)

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“Apartment for Bronco and Marjorie” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 5, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Great Gildersleeve learns that his niece Marjorie and her fiance Bronco plan to find their own place after their wedding in May. Gildersleeve decides to convert upstairs bedrooms into an apartment so they can stay in the house, and he enlists his handyman Uncle Charlie to help with the work. Marjorie and Bronco turn down the offer, insisting on standing on their own feet. Gildersleeve then consults Judge Hooker and later tours rentals with the young couple. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on April 5, 1950. Harold Peary stars as Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle in the cast.

Summerfield, a small town; the Gildersleeve house and nearby streets

Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Bronco, Leroy, Birdie, Judge Hooker, Uncle Charlie Anderson, Peavy

Listen for: Gildersleeve's plan to build an apartment for Marjorie and Bronco, and their reply.

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.