What happens
Bronco asks his boss, Dudley Hammond, to dinner at the Gildersleeve home, and Gildersleeve, eager to host, insists on inviting Marie Olsen and planning the party himself. Bertie is set to cook the meal while Marjorie and Gildersleeve prepare the house. At the dinner, Hammond shows warm interest in Marie, and Gildersleeve watches the evening take an unexpected turn. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy, and this episode aired on April 14, 1954, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman among its leads. Gildersleeve, Marjorie and Bronco remain at the center of the story as its complications build.
Summerfield, a small town, including the home of Gildersleeve and Marjorie, the drugstore of P.V. Peavy, and the Hickory House restaurant.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Bronco, Marjorie, Bertie, Dudley Hammond, Marie Olsen, Leroy, Peavy
Listen for: Gildersleeve's eagerness to host Bronco's boss and the dinner party that follows, where Marie Olsen draws Hammond's attention.
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.