Leila's Sister: The Great Gildersleeve (February 7, 1943)

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“Leila's Sister” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 7, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, is pressed by friends and by his fiancée Leila Ransom to set a wedding date. Leila's sister Winfield arrives with her young son Michael, and Throckmorton is left to entertain the boy, which leads to a mishap at the drugstore. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on February 7, 1943, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.

Summerfield, a small town, including the water department office, the barbershop, the Gildersleeve house and a drugstore

Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leila Ransom, Winfield, Michael, Floyd Hooker, Bessie, Leroy, Birdie

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to get Leila to name a wedding date, and his awkward afternoon with Michael

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.