New Year's Eve at Home: The Great Gildersleeve (December 30, 1945)

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“New Year's Eve at Home” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 30, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gildersleeve, a small-town businessman, spends New Year's Eve 1945 at home while the people around him scatter. His niece Marjorie and her friend Marshall want to go to the new Blue Cockatoo nightclub, and Gildersleeve, Leroy and Bertie try to keep them home with a decorated dining room and paper hats. Gildersleeve's neighbor Peavey, his friend Horace and his old acquaintance Judge Hooker each drop by with their own holiday troubles. The series is The Great Gildersleeve, first aired on NBC on December 30, 1945, starring Harold Peary.

Summerfield, New Year's Eve 1945, in and around Gildersleeve's home

Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Marshall, Leroy, Bertie, Peavey, Horace, Judge Hooker

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to keep Marjorie and Marshall home for the evening

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.