What happens
Gildersleeve prepares to spend New Year's Eve with Miss Tuttle, but she cancels their date by phone. Hoping to save face, he wanders the streets in his rented tuxedo and ends up at Peavey's shop, where the two men share Cokes and reminisce about their past romances. Leila, an old flame of Peavey's, appears to reopen old memories. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio comedy, and this New Year's Eve episode aired on December 31, 1952, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, on New Year's Eve, including Gildersleeve's home, Peavey's shop and the streets of town
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Miss Tuttle, Peavey, Grace, Brock Morton, Leila, Adeline Fairchild
Listen for: Gildersleeve's reaction when Miss Tuttle cancels their date, and the reunion with Leila
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.