What happens
Leroy Gildersleeve's nephew Leroy wants to skip school folk dancing class, so Gildersleeve marches to the gym to confront the new teacher, Miss Taylor, but is charmed by her and enrolls in her square dance class instead. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on June 1, 1949, with Harold Peary in the title role, joined by Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. Gildersleeve's efforts to slim down before the dance, including a strange reducing set, lead to comic mishaps as he prepares to join the class.
Summerfield, the Gildersleeve household and the town school gymnasium
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Miss Taylor, Judge Hooker, Birdie, Bessie, P.V.
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to impress Miss Taylor and his struggle with a reducing exercise set
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.