What happens
Gildersleeve wants to host Judge Hooker for dinner, and the dinner runs long over coffee and cigars. Afterward the judge recalls his father giving him a pony as a boy, and Leroy, who has been pestering his uncle for months, begs for one of his own. Gildersleeve makes a loose promise that Leroy takes as firm, and the boy spends the next day preparing the garage as a stable. Leroy's enthusiasm and his uncle's reluctance pull against each other as the household reacts. The story is part of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on April 28, 1946, with Harold Peary in the title role. Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle also appear.
Summerfield, at the Gildersleeve home and in the town, including a nearby farm owned by Earl
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Judge Hooker, Marjorie, Bertie, Craig, Mr. Peavey, Earl
Listen for: Gildersleeve's shifting answers about the pony, and Leroy's repeated pleas and his plans for the garage
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.