The Great Gildersleeve, Collection 1 Audiobook (Free)

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve was a favorite character appearing frequently around the Fibber McGee & Molly Present. On August 31, 1941, the type landed his personal situation comedy present, THE FANTASTIC Gildersleeve, getting radio’s first spin-off. Gildy relocated from the town of Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where he raised his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and accompanied by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy (Walter Tetley). The household also included a about THE FANTASTIC Gildersleeve, Collection 1 cook named Birdie (Lillian Randolph). The Great Gildersleeve was the 1st show to become centered on an individual parent balancing raising children, work, and a public life, completed with taste and authentic wit, frequently at the trouble of Gildersleeve’s slightly understated pomposity. Radio veteran, Hal Peary originated the part of Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve but remaining the series in the height of its recognition in 1950 offering method to Peary-sound-a-like and well-known character professional, Willard Waterman. Waterman continuing in the radio function until 1957 and also played Gildersleeve in a Television version syndicated in 1955. Today, appreciate 12 half-hour comedy episodes of The Great Gildersleeve starring Harold Peary.

11/23/41 ‘Leroy Smokes a Cigar’

11/30/41 ‘The Canary Earned’t Sing’

12/14/41 ‘Selling the Iron Deer’

12/21/41 ‘Xmas Present for Fibber McGee’

12/28/41 ‘Leroy’s New Pup’

1/11/42 ‘Gildy Arrested as a Car Thief’

1/25/42 ‘Matchmaker’

2/8/42 ‘Auto Technicians’

9/26/43 ‘Leila Comes back Home’

1/9/44 ‘Hospitalized’

1/16/44 ‘Income Tax Problems’

1/30/44 ‘Aspiring Actress’