What happens
Old Gold Comedy Theater presents a broadcast of The Palm Beach Story, first aired October 29, 1944, starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Young. Tom and Jerry Jeffers are a broke, quarrelling couple whose lives are shaken when a generous stranger gives Jerry seven hundred dollars. Tom grows tired of poverty and begins to doubt his inventing scheme, while Jerry resolves to leave him. Jerry travels to Palm Beach, where she becomes entangled with wealthy men and a grand plan involving a yacht. Harold Lloyd appears as host, and the transcript ends before the story is resolved.
Hollywood apartment and Palm Beach, Florida
Characters: Tom Jeffers, Jerry Jeffers, Harold Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, John D. Hackensacker III
Listen for: Jerry's plan to leave Tom and her arrival in Palm Beach
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.