What happens
Water Commissioner Gildersleeve needs a new secretary after Bessie leaves to marry. His friends, Judge Hooker, Peavey and Floyd Munson, each push a candidate on him, offering favors. Gildersleeve, enjoying the attention, tries to balance them all, until the Jolly Boys club quarrels over his choices. The Great Gildersleeve is a comedy series on NBC, and this episode first aired on September 20, 1950, with Harold Peary in the title role and Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle in the supporting cast.
Wellington, the water department office and the Jolly Boys club
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bertie, Bessie, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Floyd Munson, Chief Gates
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to hire a secretary while his friends push their own candidates
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.