What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the water commissioner, sets out to get back at his rival Dr. Clarence Olson, who keeps trying to take the women he dates. When Olson shows up at Peavey's with an attractive blonde named Marie and refuses to introduce her, Gildersleeve decides to pursue her himself. Helped along by Leroy and Bertie, he tracks Marie down and tries to win her attention. The Great Gildersleeve, a radio comedy, is heard here in its 1954 broadcast on NBC, with Harold Peary in the title role, joined by Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town, where Gildersleeve works as water commissioner and Olson is an intern at Summerfield City Hospital
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Clarence Olson, Marie, Grace Tuttle, Leroy, Bertie, Peavey, Mr. Stark
Listen for: Gildersleeve's scheme to outdo Olson with the new girl in town, and his repeated efforts to find out her name and address
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.