What happens
Water commissioner Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve worries when his niece Marjorie begins seeing Keith Kelsey, a high school hockey player he distrusts because of a past prank. Marjorie resents his strict rules, while his nephew Leroy watches the tension grow. Gildersleeve's housekeeper Birdie and his friend Judge Hooker offer their opinions, and Gildersleeve plans a surprise party for Marjorie with her girlfriends. The Great Gildersleeve, starring Harold Peary, aired on NBC on January 21, 1945, with Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve household and around town
Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Keith Kelsey, Birdie, Judge Hooker, Peevey
Listen for: Gildersleeve's suspicions of Keith Kelsey and his plan for a surprise party
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.