What happens
Mr. Gildersleeve receives a note from his son Leroy's teacher, Miss Grace Tuttle, inviting him to tea, and he is delighted, boasting about it around town. Instead of a romantic afternoon, Miss Tuttle asks him to help organize a bird-watching club and to recruit three interested members. Gildersleeve turns to his friends, Peavey and Judge Hooker, and to Leroy, with mixed results. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode first aired on NBC on November 26, 1952, with Harold Peary and Lurene Tuttle among its cast.
Summerfield, a small American town, around the Thanksgiving holiday season.
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Miss Grace Tuttle, Bertie, Mr. Cooley, Phoebe, Peavey, Judge Hooker
Listen for: Gildersleeve's boasting about his tea invitation, and the reveal that Miss Tuttle wants him to organize a bird-watching club.
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.