Cleaning House - Rummage Sale: The Great Gildersleeve (March 25, 1953)

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“Cleaning House - Rummage Sale” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 25, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve decides to clean out the cluttered house after Birdie begins spring cleaning, and the household soon disagrees about what should be kept. Leroy and Marjorie resist parting with their old belongings, and a squabble breaks out over which items go to the school's rummage sale. Gildersleeve takes the castoffs to the gymnasium, where he tries to attract buyers and seems to have little luck. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on March 25, 1953, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman among its lead actors.

The Gildersleeve house and the school gymnasium, during spring

Characters: Gildersleeve, Birdie, Leroy, Marjorie, Aunt Hattie, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Grace, Peavy

Listen for: Gildersleeve's arguments with the household over which belongings to keep

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.