What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a bumbling former water commissioner, is planning to manufacture a plastic mousetrap with his partner Peavey McGee and needs a loan to start production. His niece Marjorie begins seeing Everett Todd, the son of banker Ainsworth Todd, whom Gildersleeve dislikes after an earlier quarrel. The Great Gildersleeve is an NBC radio comedy, first broadcast on September 24, 1944, with Harold Peary in the title role, joined by Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. Gildersleeve tries to win Todd's favor for the loan, while Marjorie's uncle worries about her growing friendship with the young man.
Summerfield, a small town; the Gildersleeve household, the drugstore and the First National Bank
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Judge Hooker, Bertie, Everett Todd, Ainsworth Todd, Peavey McGee
Listen for: Gildersleeve's exchanges with Everett Todd and the banker over the loan, and the record-player scene with Wedgie Arcola's trumpet
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.