Wedding Day Set for Marjorie and Bronco: The Great Gildersleeve (February 15, 1950)

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“Wedding Day Set for Marjorie and Bronco” is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 15, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Summerfield's water commissioner, Gildersleeve, takes a keen interest in his niece Marjorie's engagement to Bronco Thompson, after the couple announce a May 1st wedding date. Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker and others quickly start planning the ceremony, insisting on their own ideas, while Bronco's parents, the Thompsons, arrive in town with plans of their own. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, first broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1950, starring Harold Peary. Tensions over the wedding arrangements mount, and the young couple are soon nowhere to be found.

Summerfield, a small town, in the Gildersleeve household and around town

Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie Forrester, Bronco Thompson, Leroy, Bertie, Judge Hooker, Mrs. Thompson, Mr. Thompson

Listen for: Gildersleeve's plans for the wedding, the Thompsons' arrival, and the search for the missing couple

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.