What happens
Jerry Curtis, a former private detective, is hired by Mr. Whittle, a gunpowder manufacturer who fears for his life after receiving threatening letters. Needing staff for his country home, Whittle takes on Jerry and Susan Courtney as a butler and cook, posing as a married couple. Jerry and Susan, who is in love with him, struggle with the domestic work while Whittle's household fills with odd visitors and unusual events. Jack Carson, Jane Wyman and Alan Hale star in this Screen Guild Theater broadcast of the Warner Brothers comedy Make Your Own Bed, first aired on July 17, 1944.
A large country home and New York City, 1944
Characters: Jerry Curtis, Susan Courtney, Walter Whittle, Mrs. Whittle, Paul Haslund, Fritz Alton, Marie Gruber
Listen for: Jerry's clumsy attempts at cooking and butling, and the exchanges between Jerry and Susan about their relationship
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.