What happens
Harold Peary's Great Gildersleeve, the water commissioner, insists his nephew Leroy return a defective baseball glove to Hogan Brothers and orders him to meet at the store's complaint department. Gildersleeve, puffed up with self-importance, sets out to show Leroy how to handle complaints, but he is quickly sidetracked by Miss McKinley, the attractive manager of the complaint department. Gildersleeve is smitten with her husky voice and keeps finding reasons to visit her desk. This 1952 NBC episode of The Great Gildersleeve, starring Harold Peary and Willard Waterman, aired on June 25, 1952.
Hogan Brothers department store in Summerfield, including its complaint department, and the Gildersleeve household.
Characters: Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Miss McKinley, Margie, Judge Hooker, Mr. Kelly, Peavey
Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to impress Miss McKinley at the complaint department and the escalating mix-up over the baseball glove.
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.