Gildy and Leroy Baby Sit the Twins: The Great Gildersleeve (March 28, 1951)

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“Gildy and Leroy Baby Sit the Twins” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 28, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve returns home to find his nephew Leroy and the family's household are stressed over the twins. Marjorie, Bronco and Bertie leave for a movie, and Gildersleeve and Leroy are left to babysit the infants. Though Gildersleeve insists he can manage, the babies soon become fussy. Leroy and Gildersleeve struggle with feeding and try to settle them, and Gildersleeve calls Phoebe for advice. This is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on March 28, 1951. Willard Waterman stars as Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle in the cast.

Summerfield, the Gildersleeve home, spring afternoon and evening

Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Bronco, Bertie, Phoebe, Judge Hooker

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to feed and quiet the twins, and Leroy's rising panic in the kitchen

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.