What happens
Gildersleeve and his friends, the Jolly Boys, meet for a singing evening that breaks up early when Gildersleeve leaves for a date with Miss Hanshaw. A newspaper photograph of the group, taken after he left, leads to a dispute with the club's president, Peavey, and Gildersleeve resigns in a huff. Judge Hooker persuades him to return, and an election of officers is arranged. The series is The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on February 24, 1954, with Harold Peary and Willard Waterman in the lead.
Summerfield; the Jolly Boys' meeting room above a barbershop, and Gildersleeve's home.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Peavey, Judge Hooker, Floyd, Chief Gates, Bertie, Leroy, Miss Hanshaw
Listen for: Gildersleeve's sulking after the newspaper photograph and the club's election arrangements.
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.