What happens
Leroy Gildersleeve breaks a valuable vase while playing football indoors, and his uncle Gildersleeve orders him to pay for it by working every Saturday in the backyard until the debt is cleared. Leroy resents the punishment, which keeps him from a football practice with his friends. Gildersleeve's household is busy preparing for a dinner guest, Miss Goodwin, and Gildersleeve is also dealing with his niece Marjorie and the housekeeper Birdie. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode was first broadcast on NBC on October 14, 1945, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
The Gildersleeve home and the nearby town of Summerfield, including a barbershop, a drugstore and a bowling alley.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Birdie, Miss Goodwin, Floyd, Judge Hooker, Peavy
Listen for: Gildersleeve's blustering lectures to Leroy about responsibility and the value of money.
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.