What happens
Great Gildersleeve finds a baby in his car and is told by the welfare department that an investigator, Phoebe Crabtree, will visit to discuss the child's future. Gildy worries he may lose her and tries to make himself respectable so he can get references. He courts the favor of the influential Mrs. Pettibone, cuts back on cigars and evenings out, and ends his dates with Adeline Fairchild, but a series of misunderstandings threatens his reputation. This is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, broadcast on NBC on October 6, 1948, with Harold Peary in the title role, alongside Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town
Characters: Gildersleeve, Bertie, Marjorie, Leroy, Judge Hooker, Mrs. Pettibone, Adeline Fairchild, Floyd Munson
Listen for: Gildy's efforts to win references from Mrs. Pettibone and the welfare investigator's unexpected visit to the park.
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.