What happens
Water Commissioner Gildersleeve learns that his neighbor Rumson Bullard may try to adopt the foundling baby in his care, and that adopting her himself would require him to marry first. Hoping to keep the child, Gildersleeve pursues the matter and begins to consider a proposal to Adeline Fairchild. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series; this episode aired on NBC on October 27, 1948, with Harold Peary in the title role, alongside Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town
Characters: Gildersleeve, Adeline Fairchild, Rumson Bullard, Judge Hooker, Peavy, Bertie, Leroy, Marjorie
Listen for: Gildersleeve's scheme to marry Adeline so he can adopt the baby, and his rivalry with Rumson Bullard
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.