What happens
Gildersleeve is delighted that Leila Ransom is returning home, and he tries to be the first to greet her at the train station. Leila is a widow who has been away in Savannah, and she has a new lipstick and a sweet manner that charms everyone. Gildersleeve waits in the water department office and later meets Leila at the station, but she has plans of her own with Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve's rival suitors. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on September 23, 1945, starring Harold Peary as Gildersleeve. Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle are also in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town, including the water department, Peavey's drugstore, the train station and Leila's home.
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leila Ransom, Marjorie, Leroy, Mr. Peavey, Floyd Munson, Judge Hooker, Bertie
Listen for: Gildersleeve trying to outdo his friends in greeting Leila, and Leila's conversation about her summer in Savannah.
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.