What happens
Gildersleeve, the water commissioner, is worried about money as Christmas approaches and his niece Marjorie wants a new coat. Visiting a hotel salesman named Fowler, he is offered a supposedly genuine fur coat at half price and buys it for thirty dollars. His friend Judge Hooker sees the coat is worthless, and Gildersleeve discovers he has been swindled. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on November 12, 1947. Harold Peary plays Gildersleeve, with Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle also in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town, in late autumn before Christmas, at Gildersleeve's home, the Summerfield Hotel, and around town.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Judge Hooker, Floyd, Fowler, Peavy, Mr. Gellis
Listen for: Gildersleeve's growing excitement over the bargain fur coat and his visit to the hotel room where Fowler makes his offer.
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.