What happens
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve prepares to sponsor the christening of a Liberty ship named after his ancestor, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve the First. Gildersleeve, his niece Marjorie and his nephew Leroy set out by train for San Francisco, where a telegram has changed the launching date. Trying to reach the shipyard in time, the family runs into one mishap after another, from a misdirected train to a borrowed jalopy. The Great Gildersleeve is a long-running NBC radio comedy starring Harold Peary, and this episode aired on May 3, 1942.
Summerfield, then by train and plane across the United States toward San Francisco and the Richmond shipyard
Characters: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Bertie, Dottie, Porter, Foley, Driresspuss
Listen for: The telegram error that moves the launching date, and the family's frantic journey west
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.