Boy's Club Takes over Jolly Boy Clubroom: The Great Gildersleeve (April 15, 1953)

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“Boy's Club Takes over Jolly Boy Clubroom” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 15, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve settles into his parlor for a quiet evening alone, but his nephew Leroy arrives with a crowd of boys who are organizing a club and need a meeting place. Gildersleeve and the Jolly Boys, his fellow lodge members, agree to let them use their clubroom, and the Jolly Boys themselves are soon left looking for somewhere else to meet. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series; this episode first aired on NBC on April 15, 1953, and stars Harold Peary and Willard Waterman, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle in the cast.

Summerfield; Gildersleeve's house and parlor, the Jolly Boys clubroom, and Floyd's barbershop

Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie, Floyd, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Chief Gates, Horace

Listen for: Gildersleeve's comic complaints about the noisy boys and the Jolly Boys' squabbling over who should run their club

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.