Green Thumb Women's Club: The Great Gildersleeve (May 19, 1948)

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“Green Thumb Women's Club” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 19, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve is caught off guard when he learns that his romantic interest, Adeline Fairchild, has been attending a meeting of the Green Thumb Flower and Garden Club. Jealous and curious, he sets out to find out what the club is about. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on May 19, 1948. Harold Peary plays Gildersleeve, with Lurene Tuttle and Lillian Randolph among the cast. The story follows his efforts to get his money back from the club's treasurer and his unexpected acceptance into the group.

Summerfield, a small town

Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Adeline Fairchild, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Judge Hooker, Floyd, Mrs. Pettybone

Listen for: Gildersleeve trying to recover his donation from Mrs. Pettybone, and the moment he is unexpectedly elected president of the club

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.