What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve gathers old clothes for a wartime drive for the Russians, but he balks at giving up his tuxedo and army uniform. He is then invited to Leila Ransom's party, where an old friend of hers, James Eustace Calhoun, has come to town. Gildersleeve, Eve Goodwin, and the other guests gather at the Ransom house, where Calhoun presents himself as a government diplomat. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy from NBC, first broadcast on April 22, 1945, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small American town during the Second World War, with the Gildersleeve house and the Ransom home.
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leila Ransom, James Eustace Calhoun, Eve Goodwin, Marjorie, Leroy, Bertie, Judge Hooker
Listen for: Gildersleeve's reluctance to give up his tuxedo and the comic pretension of Calhoun's party.
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.