There were 552 episodes of which 514 are available at last count. This is the 195253 season season 01 season 02 season 03. Recently, i came back to the series and decided to listen to them starting with season 1. A location number of 111 indicates i have the show in my collection, but they havent yet been assigned a location number. Gildersleeve accidentally ends up with gloves of an exotic dancer and must return them.
Great gildersleeve radio show 21247 gildy the executive duration. The thanksgiving and christmas episodes with harold perry are my favorite. Ive listend to all 12 seasons of the great gildersleeves. Jan 04, 2014 great gildersleeves episode gildy goes broke.
The true love and happiness we hear in the gildersleeve. The actor who portrayed 12 year old leroy, walter tetley, was 27 years old when the show began. Uncle gildy keeps scaring off marjories boyfriends by giving them the third degree. Great gildersleeve radio show 12848 gildy gets license. I listened to the great gildersleeve about ten years ago and they became my bedtime pal. This is the 195253 season season 01 season 02 season 03 season 04 season 05.
Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy fibber mcgee and molly. The gildersleeve program ran from 1941 to 1957and in 1942, peary brought the character to the big screen in the first of four films for rko, the great gildersleeve. The life of riley season 5 episode 37 vacation plans. The great gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the united states from august 31, 1941 to 1958. Christmas 122050 willard waterman as gildersleeve visits a group of children at the hospital and reads the story, why the chimes rang. These are not complete seasons but are all known shows for these years. Great gildersleeves episode gildy goes broke video. The gildersleeve household was one of the first nontraditional families in broadcast media, with two children being raised by an uncle and no mother and father. Watch the great gildersleeve episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. The episodes and cast of radios first spinoff show, 19411957 clair schulz on.
The great gildersleeve is a 1942 american comedy film directed by gordon douglas. Gildy encourages leroy to build a raft and float down river from summerville like a modernday huck finn. Great gildersleeves episode gildy the private eye video. The classic archives old time radio channel 1,444 views. He began working in local radio in 1923, and had his own show, the spanish serenader in san francisco. May 10, 2018 otr great gildersleeve franknelsonnet. Throckmorton gildersleeve is a blustery ladies man who often finds himself in unusual predicaments. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 12 water commissioners water color. Christmas 121047 gildy heads to the department store to do his christmas shopping early. He goes so so far as to impersonate the fire commissioner in getting backstage. The true love and happiness we hear in the gildersleeve household makes it just that more special for us. The program is remindful of the great gildersleeve in its characters and gave pearys harold hemp, the host of a homemaking show on a small town radio station, the opportunity to sing on every show an idea that kraft had resisted for the great gildersleeve. Gildy fears the children are missing the spirit of the season. In the first season, under writer levinson, birdie was often portrayed as less than intelligent, but she slowly.
Jan 28, 2019 the great gildersleeve, old time radio show, 421004 planting a tree duration. Christmas shows great gildersleeve old time radio show. Great gildersleeve episode titled selling trees for needy childrens party. Great gildersleeve radio show 2 12 47 gildy the executive duration. Great gildersleeve radio show 12 1548 economy this christmas duration. While this is certainly true, there is much more to the show than that. Leroy forrester pulls off another trick that is envied by many longrunning sitcom children.
The mayor appoints gildy the acting police commissioner in name only until the real one returns from a fishing trip. Initially written by leonard lewis levinson,2 it was one of broadcast historys earliest spinoff programs. While the years went, the great gildersleeve radio program ran from 1941 through 1957, leroy never grew up. Jan 04, 2014 great gildersleeves episode gildy the private eye. Great gildersleeve radio show 122042 christmas program. Great gildersleeve radio show 1129 42 date with a star duration. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 7 gildy, the private eye.
Initially written by leonard lewis levinson, it was one of. The great gildersleeve, volume 1 hollywood 360 classic radio collectionaudio theater. In the spring of 1941, the needham, louis and brorby advertising agency gave hal peary a green light to record an audition program based on the various gildersleeve characters which he had developed and portrayed on the fibber mcgee and molly show, over the preceding few years. Throckmorton p gildersleeve peary is a loveable rotund man, but also somewhat of a pompous windbag, who lives in the town of summerfield. Dec 19, 2012 great gildersleeve episode titled selling trees for needy childrens party. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 10 one too many secretaries. Initially written by leonard lewis levinson, it was one of broadcast historys earliest spinoff programs. The great gildersleeve a treasure of old time radio and an early spinoff success. Based on the popular nbc radio series the great gildersleeve created by. The mayor thinks gildys floozy girlfriend is his new secretary when he walks in on them playing office one night. In the early years of the show she is a pretty and popular young woman, finishing high school, but not. The plan backfires when the raft is discovered broken up downstream and leroy cant be found. The great gildersleeve receives a lot of notice for being the first successful spinoff program, where a character from one show leaves and a new program is built around them. Although gildersleeve did his best to be both father and mother to leroy and marjorie, the household was not without a strong feminine influence, as well as someone to help put gildy in his place.
Part of our over 12,000 show library of old time radio. It centered on the story of throckmorton philharmonic gildersleeve, who was also the main character of the fmam. If you have missing shows for any gildersleeve program please upload. The correct title of the program is the great gildersleeve. The great gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the united states from august. The character who is allowed to grow the most in the sixteen years that the great gildersleeve stayed on the air is throckmortons pretty niece, marjorie. The great gildersleeve, a sitcom aired on nbc radio from august 31, 1941 to 1957, was a spinoff from another popular comedy series fibber mcgee and molly, or fmam. The great gildersleeve was one of radios first spinoff series. With willard waterman, ronald keith, lillian randolph, stephanie griffin. The great gildersleeve, old time radio show, 421004 planting a tree duration. Raising his too smart nephew leroy, he leans on his secretary bessie and tries to. The great gildersleeve, old time radio show, 520 gildy protects hooker from mona. Raising his too smart nephew leroy, he leans on his secretary bessie and tries to ignore the advice of housekeeper birdie.
Great gildersleeve radio show 121548 economy this christmas duration. Gildy gets in hot water with his real secretary when he tells his friends that his new girlfriend is his administrative assistant. Im an enormous fan of the radio program, but this is a lousy product. The great gildersleeve comedy old time radio downloads. Peary and waterman get to know the men behind the voice of the great man. Great gildersleeve radio show 12 3045 new years eve. The september 9, 1950, opening show of honest harolds one season is posted below. These are poorly edited often missing beginnings of scenes due to a clip too close, and its too grainy for something from 1955. Old time radio, the great gildersleeve, willard waterman. Listen to 468 episodes of the great gildersleeve for free.
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