Campaign Photo: The Great Gildersleeve (March 26, 1944)

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“Campaign Photo” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 26, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve decides to get in shape and have a campaign portrait taken before running for mayor of Summerfield. He jogs each morning with his nephew Leroy, has his hair cut at Floyd Munson's barber shop, and arranges a photographer, Mr. Hostetter, to come to the house. His niece Marjorie and the household take part as the sitting goes ahead. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on March 26, 1944, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.

Summerfield, a small town, including the Gildersleeve home, Floyd Munson's barber shop and Eve Goodwin's house

Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Eve Goodwin, Floyd Munson, Mr. Hostetter, Judge Hooker, Peavey

Listen for: Gildersleeve's preparations for his campaign portrait and the photographer's visit to the house

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.