Jolly Boys Gift - A Rental Trailer: The Great Gildersleeve (April 26, 1950)

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“Jolly Boys Gift - A Rental Trailer” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 26, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Water Commissioner Gildersleeve and the Jolly Boys decide to give Marjorie and Bronco, who are about to marry, a rented house trailer as a wedding present. The couple had mentioned wanting a trailer for their honeymoon. The Jolly Boys make their deal with trailer dealer Sam Horn, then clean and decorate the trailer. Their plans run into trouble when Marjorie and Bronco prefer other honeymoon arrangements. Harold Peary stars in The Great Gildersleeve, which aired on NBC on April 26, 1950.

Summerfield in the 1950s, including Gildersleeve's household, the Jolly Boys' meeting place, and Sam's trailer lot.

Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Bronco, Leroy, Judge Hooker, Floyd, Peavey, Sam Horn

Listen for: The Jolly Boys' attempt to rent a trailer as a wedding gift and how it falls through.

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.