What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, is angered when a campaign truck for his opponent, Mayor Cyrus Tewilliger, drives past City Hall. Campaign manager Judge Hooker urges him to act, while at home his household is stirred by Leroy, Bertie, and Marjorie. Gildersleeve prepares a radio speech to answer the mayor's attacks, but the broadcast arrangements run into trouble at the station. This episode of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on May 7, 1944, stars Harold Peary, with Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph, and Lurene Tuttle in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town during a hot May afternoon and evening, in City Hall, the Gildersleeve home, Peavey's drugstore, and the WSUM radio studio
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker, Bessie, Leroy, Bertie, Marjorie, Eve, Mayor Cyrus Tewilliger
Listen for: The truck with campaign posters passing City Hall, Gildersleeve's reading of Eve's letter, and the sudden change to the mayor's speech on the radio
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.