What happens
Marjorie Gildersleeve is eager for shy poet Rodney Zimmerman to invite her to a costume dance at Summerfield High School, and she hopes her uncle, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, will help encourage him. Rodney visits the house, but his nerves get the better of him, and he is soon convinced that Marjorie still has feelings for a rival, Wally Hough. Meanwhile, Gildersleeve, who is trying to smooth things over, finds his own evening complicated by his costume choice for the dance. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on May 18, 1949, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
The Gildersleeve home and Summerfield, including a barbershop and a drugstore, in the days before a high school costume dance
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Rodney Zimmerman, Leroy, Birdie, Floyd, Wally Hough, Peavey
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to help Rodney, and his unexpected costume for the dance
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.