What happens
Gildersleeve tells Judge Hooker that he will run for mayor, though he asks everyone to keep it secret. Hooker arranges a meeting with Congressman Abernathy, and Gildersleeve is pulled away from a birthday party he had hoped to attend. Meanwhile Leila hosts guests in her home, and Gildersleeve struggles to choose a present for her in a shop. The episode is part of The Great Gildersleeve, broadcast on NBC in March 1944, with Harold Peary in the title role alongside Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small American town, in the 1940s
Characters: Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Leila, Birdie, Floyd
Listen for: Gildersleeve's announcement that he will run for mayor, and his meeting with Congressman Abernathy
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.