Matchmaker: The Great Gildersleeve (January 25, 1942)

“Matchmaker” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 25, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Judge Hooker, a lonely bachelor, is the subject of a well-meant matchmaking scheme by Gildersleeve and his nephew Leroy. Gildersleeve, a small-town Summerfield man, decides the judge needs a wife and sets about finding one. The episode is a 1942 installment of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on January 25, 1942, starring Harold Peary.

Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve household and around town

Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker, Leroy Forrest, Bertie, Henrietta Banks, Mr. Taylor

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to pair Judge Hooker with a suitable woman

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.