What happens
Gildersleeve leaves a late-night singing session at Floyd Munson's barbershop and, feeling lonely, visits Adeline in her living room. Over coffee and cookies they discuss marriage in impersonal terms, but Gildersleeve is unable to bring the subject to a clear point. The next morning at breakfast, he tells Marjorie and Leroy he may get married for their sake, and Birdie worries about losing her job. Gildersleeve plans to bring flowers to Adeline. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio comedy, first broadcast on March 10, 1948, with Harold Peary in the title role.
A small American city, including Floyd Munson's barbershop, Adeline's house, Gildersleeve's home, and the drugstore downtown.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Floyd Munson, Commissioner Gildersleeve, Adeline, Marjorie, Leroy, Birdie, Judge Hooker
Listen for: Gildersleeve's shifting thoughts about marriage, first as a joke at the barbershop and later as a plan for his household.
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.