What happens
Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, learns that Peavey's drugstore is marking thirty years in business and persuades Peavey to take the day off while he runs the store himself. Gildersleeve is eager to show off his organizational skills, and he enlists Floyd the barber and Judge Hooker to help him drum up customers. Peavey's shop is busy with odd sales and crowds of shoppers. Gildersleeve's helpers are confident their scheme is working. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy, and this episode aired on February 7, 1951, with Harold Peary in the title role, joined by Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town in the cold winter, mainly at Peavey's drugstore.
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Peavey, Leroy, Bronco Thompson, Judge Hooker, Floyd, Bertie, Marjorie
Listen for: Gildersleeve's enthusiastic attempts to run the drugstore and the mysterious source of the crowds of customers.
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.