Gildersleeve vs Golf: The Great Gildersleeve (November 5, 1952)

“Gildersleeve vs Golf” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 5, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Summerfield's City Water Commissioner, is invited by Mayor Tuttle to play golf at the Country Club. While practicing in his yard, he gets a crick in his neck and goes to the clinic to have it treated. His nephew Leroy and several others in the clinic's waiting room become involved as the wait for a doctor drags on. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on November 5, 1952, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman among its lead actors.

Summerfield, a small town; the back yard of Gildersleeve's house, and a local medical clinic

Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Mayor Tuttle, Mrs. Potter, Miss Hatfield, Dr. Culpepper, Peavey, Mr. Cooley

Listen for: Gildersleeve's growing impatience in the clinic waiting room as he tries to keep his golf date with the mayor

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.