The Great Gildersleeve: A New Bed for Marjorie (1942)

Gildersleeve takes his nephew Leroy to a furniture store to buy a new bed as a surprise for his niece Marjorie, who is away at a Red Cross training school. Store owner Samuel Sledderman shows them several beds, and Gildersleeve becomes absorbed in finding one that suits her room. The shop is run by Sledderman and his employees, and the story proceeds through a series of comic misunderstandings about the purchase. The Great Gildersleeve was a radio comedy series, and this episode was first broadcast on NBC on January 18, 1942, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.

With Gildersleeve, Leroy, Samuel Sledderman, Morris Sledderman, Bertie, Marjorie, Patricia Van Scudder.

Listen for: Gildersleeve's attempts to choose a bed for Marjorie and the furniture dealers' comic bargaining over the bed.

First aired on January 18, 1942 on NBC.

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