Hooker and Peavey Are Feuding: The Great Gildersleeve (September 24, 1952)

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“Hooker and Peavey Are Feuding” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 24, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, is puzzled when his old friends Judge Hooker and Peavey stop speaking to each other. Trying to patch up the quarrel, he meddles in their affairs, inviting each to dinner without telling the other. The episode is from The Great Gildersleeve, first aired on NBC on September 24, 1952, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman among the leads.

Summerfield

Characters: Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Leroy, Birdie, Marjorie, Mrs. Phoebe

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to reconcile Judge Hooker and Peavey, and the dinner invitations that bring them together

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.