What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the bank-clerk-turned-lawyer, is secretly buying a leather club chair as a Father's Day gift for his ward and niece, Marjorie and Leroy, the children he has raised as his own. The shop salesman, Sam Slepperman, sells him a chair that arrives in the wrong color, and the family gets tangled in a string of deliveries, swaps and mix-ups. Meanwhile Judge Hooker and Gildersleeve trade accusations over a borrowed umbrella, and the household scrambles to keep the gift a secret. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series; this episode was first broadcast by NBC on June 21, 1942, with Harold Peary in the title role, joined by Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, the home of Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, and the furniture store of Phelps and Fowler in town.
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Birdie, Judge Horace Hooker, Sam Slepperman, Amelia Hooker, Dottie
Listen for: The running confusion over the chair's color and its many deliveries, and the squabble between Gildersleeve and Judge Hooker over the umbrella.
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.