What happens
Kenneth Ford, a research scientist played by Dennis O'Keefe, is pulled into trouble when a subpoena reveals that a garter he once gave to Gertie Kettering, played by Lucille Ball, may be linked to a clerk's trial. Ken is also engaged to Patty, played by Sheila Ryan, and Gertie is about to marry Ted, played by Barry Sullivan. Ken tries to recover the inscribed garter before Patty and Ted learn of its past, and his hasty plans and misunderstandings begin to strain each relationship. This is the Screen Guild Theater's 1946 broadcast of the stage play and Edward Small film comedy Getting Gertie's Garter, first aired March 4, 1946.
A research laboratory and nearby homes in the city, then Ted's family home outside town, where the wedding is to take place.
Characters: Kenneth Ford, Gertie Kettering, Patty, Ted, Barbara, Charles
Listen for: Listen for Ken's attempts to retrieve the garter and the escalating mix-ups that follow when Patty becomes suspicious.
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.