What happens
Gildersleeve, the water commissioner of Summerfield, meets Private First Class Tommy Clark, who is waiting nervously outside the marriage license bureau for his fiancée, Susan Taylor, who has come east to marry him before he ships out. When she arrives, Gildersleeve offers to help, and they obtain the license and arrange a quiet ceremony with Judge Horace Hooker. Gildersleeve is asked to be the witness, and his eagerness begins to enlarge the simple wedding. The Great Gildersleeve aired on NBC; this episode first aired on May 27, 1953, with Harold Peary in the title role.
Summerfield, a small town where a young Marine and his fiancée plan to marry before he leaves for overseas service.
Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Tommy Clark, Susan Taylor, Judge Horace Hooker, Bertie, Floyd, Peavey
Listen for: Gildersleeve's growing enthusiasm for the wedding and the increasingly elaborate preparations he arranges for the 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.