What happens
Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, takes up real estate after a friend hints he has been idling in his job. He arranges a house for a client's widowed sister, then tries to sell Judge Hooker's large house for $40,000. Hooker refuses, and Gildersleeve's neighbour Peavey suggests Hooker might board with the Gildersleeve household. The family prepares an elaborate dinner to win the judge over, but the evening turns into a bitter argument between Gildersleeve and Hooker over Leroy's piano playing and Hooker's remarks. The story is part of The Great Gildersleeve radio series, first broadcast on NBC on October 30, 1946, with Harold Peary in the title role.
Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve home and neighbourhood
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Judge Horace Hooker, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Mr. Peavey, Mrs. Peavey, Mr. Bullard
Listen for: Gildersleeve's sales pitch to Judge Hooker over the $40,000 house, and the dinner-table quarrel between Gildersleeve and Hooker
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.