What happens
Gildersleeve prepares for the nurses' Sadie Hawkins dance in Summerfield, hoping Catherine Milford will invite him. Nephew Leroy and niece Marjorie tease him, and rumours spread around town as Gildersleeve grows restless waiting by the telephone. Catherine, meanwhile, has her own plans for the evening. The Great Gildersleeve, a radio comedy, first aired on NBC on May 31, 1950, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Summerfield, a small town, during the week before the nurses' Sadie Hawkins dance
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Bessie, Catherine Milford, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Dr. Olson
Listen for: Gildersleeve's growing impatience as the dance approaches and the phone stays silent
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.