What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a Great Gildersleeve episode from the series' 1951 run, finds his household strained when his niece Marjorie, her husband Bronco and their twins are offered a place with Mrs. Thompson, Marjorie's mother-in-law. Gildersleeve, eager to keep the family together, quietly sets about helping the young couple buy a vacant lot next door to his house. Harold Peary is the lead in the series, which aired on NBC on November 7, 1951. Gildersleeve's efforts to outmaneuver Mrs. Thompson lead to a series of misunderstandings and complications among the family, neighbours and local businessmen.
Summerfield, the small town where the Gildersleeve household is located, including the Gildersleeve house, the Thompson home, a vacant lot next door, and the drugstore.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Bronco, Mrs. Thompson, Mr. Thompson, Leroy, Bertie, Judge Hooker
Listen for: Gildersleeve's scheme to get the couple to buy the lot next door, and Mrs. Thompson's reaction to the plan.
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.