What happens
Gildersleeve is balancing his checkbook when his nephew Leroy arrives with a magazine subscription to sell, and Gildersleeve is bothered by the interruptions. Leroy has been pressed into selling the Post-War Barn and Home magazine in exchange for a bicycle, and he hopes to earn it by selling fifty subscriptions. Gildersleeve, who is reluctant to buy one, eventually decides to help Leroy sell the magazines. The episode is from the series The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on February 5, 1947, starring Harold Peary.
The home of Gildersleeve in Summerfield, and around town, including a candy shop and a barbershop.
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Birdie, Marjorie, Craig, Mr. Bullard, Peepy, Floyd
Listen for: Gildersleeve trying to sell the Post-War Barn and Home magazine to his friends and acquaintances.
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.