What happens
Water commissioner Gildersleeve's nephew Leroy is pressed by his uncle to befriend Freddie, the mayor's son, who has returned home from private school. Leroy reluctantly agrees to a matinee outing that includes Freddie, but Freddie soon wins over Leroy's girlfriend Babs, and Leroy grows increasingly angry. The Great Gildersleeve stars Harold Peary, with Lurene Tuttle, Lillian Randolph and Willard Waterman in the cast. Broadcast on NBC on April 8, 1953, this episode finds Leroy and Freddie's rivalry escalating over Babs and a drugstore charge account.
Summerfield, a small town: the water commissioner's office, the Gildersleeve house, and Peavey's drugstore
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Freddie, Babs, Mayor, Peavey, Bertie, Phoebe
Listen for: Leroy's frustration with Freddie as the rivalry over Babs grows
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.