What happens
Gildersleeve and his household discover that Judge Hooker has not invited them to his annual dinner, a tradition they have long observed. Each assumes the judge has forgotten or is cool toward them, and the misunderstandings multiply across town. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Birdie, Peavey and Grace Tuttle each react with hurt pride and mixed plans for the evening. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio series, first broadcast on February 10, 1954, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. The episode is a comedy of errors built on hurt feelings and crossed signals.
Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve household, on the street, at Hogan Brothers department store and at Peavey's pharmacy
Characters: Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker, Leroy, Birdie, Peavey, Grace Tuttle, Marjorie, Mr. Jones
Listen for: The phone booth scene at Peavey's pharmacy, where Gildersleeve and Judge Hooker finally meet and the misunderstanding about the dinner is sorted out
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.