What happens
Water Commissioner Gildersleeve is invited by Mayor Hilliger to his Valentine's Day party and is allowed to bring a guest. Unable to choose between Lila Ransom and Grace Tuttle, he invites Grace, then mentions Lila to the mayor, who assumes she is his date. Gildersleeve tries to untangle the situation, but each attempt to break a date only makes things more awkward. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on February 11, 1953, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
Springfield, the city water department office and Gildersleeve's home, with Peavey's drugstore
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Mayor Hilliger, Phoebe, Bertie, Lila Ransom, Grace Tuttle, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
Listen for: Gildersleeve's increasingly tangled attempts to cancel one of his two dates
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.