What happens
Summerfield's water commissioner, Mr. Gildersleeve, returns home hot and irritated after kids pelt him with beans, and he suspects his nephew Leroy is among them. He confronts Leroy, but the boy claims he has been cleaning his room all afternoon. Leroy's sudden, perfect obedience worries Gildersleeve after Bronco brings home a child-rearing book warning against the perfect child. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy, and this episode aired on August 6, 1952. Willard Waterman plays Gildersleeve, with Lurene Tuttle and Lillian Randolph in the cast.
Summerfield, a small town on a hot summer afternoon and evening, at Gildersleeve's home, Floyd's barbershop and the street outside.
Characters: Mr. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Bronco, Floyd, Judge Hooker, Birdie, Bertie, Margie
Listen for: Gildersleeve's suspicion that Leroy is behind the bean shooting, and the child psychology book Bronco brings home.
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.