What happens
Gildersleeve decides to cut his spending by giving up dating, after Birdie points out that his grocery bills and entertaining have grown too costly. His nephew Leroy doubts he can keep the resolution. Meanwhile Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve's acquaintance Grace Tuttle and Selma are both interested in the wealthy water commissioner Throckmorton Morton, and Grace tries to reach him through a pretext. Gildersleeve's resolve is soon tested as he meets Thelma Scott at Peavey's store. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy, here broadcast on April 28, 1954, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman among its cast.
Summerfield, a small town, where Gildersleeve lives with his household and works as a water commissioner, with scenes at his home and at Peavey's store.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Birdie, Leroy, Peavey, Grace Tuttle, Selma, Throckmorton Morton, Thelma Scott
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempt to give up girls, and his first meeting with Thelma Scott at Peavey's store.
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.