What happens
Brock Martin P. Gildersleeve vows never to speak to his old friend Judge Horace Hooker after the two collide while backing out of their driveways on a Friday morning. Gildersleeve's nephew Leroy and his housekeeper Birdie are caught up in the dispute, as each man tries to win them over as a witness. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy, and this episode aired on April 11, 1943, with Harold Peary in the title role and Willard Waterman as Judge Hooker. Gildersleeve pursues an insurance claim and a legal case, and the feud spreads to his fiancee Leila and the local druggist, PB.
A residential street in a small town, Gildersleeve's house and driveway, the insurance office, the drugstore, and Leila's home.
Characters: Brock Martin P. Gildersleeve, Judge Horace Hooker, Leroy, Bertie, Birdie, Leila, Diggs, PB
Listen for: The argument over who backed into whom, and the repeated vows never to speak to Judge Hooker again.
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.