The september 9, 1950, opening show of honest harolds one season is posted below. She expresses her great happiness, and her hopes for the future. Gildersleeve talks leroy and bruce out of constructing a rocket in the back yard and into building a raft like tom. The plan backfires when the raft is discovered broken up downstream and leroy cant be found. Broad and clear comedy, relaying on confusion to fill its hour of laughs. She hopes to have four children, two sons and two daughters, and looks forward to seeing them grow up and get married and be as happy as she is. The great gildersleeve season one 19411942 dvd audio old time radio programs. Watch the great gildersleeve episodes, get episode information, recaps and more.
This was the first episode of the season, and was the beginning of. Want your own set of shows of the great gildersleeve, restored to sparkling digital quality and presented as they were originally aired. Usage attributionnoncommercialnoderivs topics old time radio, the great gildersleeve, willard waterman. The whole season was a little shark jumpy with the name the baby promotion and new characters. Gildys new family fast becomes the most important part of his life and this bombastic bachelor quickly develops a strong sense of heart. Napoleon had trouble with josephine, caesar had trouble with cleopatra and the great gildersleeve is having trouble with bessie his secretary. The next two features would be released later the same.
Gildersleeve was invented by actor harold peary, who would play him through most of the characters life. Gildersleeve wants to punish leroy for a silly prank until the boy cons. On may 16, 1941, the great gildersleeve radio program auditioned for american audiences. Great gildersleeves episode gildy goes broke video. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 8 gildys juvenile delinquent. Gildy encourages leroy to build a raft and float down river from summerville like a modernday huck finn. The 15th episode occurred on dec 7, 1941, the day of the pearl harbor attack. The great gildersleeve radio program was one of the first spinoffs in broadcast history. Quite entertaining, even if i doubt the character will be among my favorites. 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. Levinson held the pen during the first season, and created most.
Characters of the great gildersleeve get to know the people of gildersleeves world. Initially written by leonard lewis levinson, it was one of broadcast historys earliest spinoff programs. Gildersleeve, played by harold peary, began as a supporting character on the fibber mcgee and molly show, during the days when it was produced in chicago. Happy birthday, gildy the great gildersleeve debuted on this day. Join fibber mcgees battling nextdoor neighbor as he sets out on a brand new life in this collection of early episodes of the great gildersleeve. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy fibber mcgee and. It centered on the story of throckmorton philharmonic gildersleeve, who was also the main character of the fmam. Folks wouldnt be that likely to tune their radios every week to hear the adventures in summerfield if it wasnt filled with characters they liked and cared about. Throckmorton gildersleeve is a blustery ladies man who often finds himself in unusual predicaments. Around the third season, however, as other writers came on board including sam moore, paul west, john. The great gildersleeve 1942 was the first of four gildersleeve films to be released during the war. The great gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the united states from august. Listen to 468 episodes of the great gildersleeve for free. Fire tv 4k ultra hd with alexa voice control echo dot 2nd gen smart speaker with alexa roku express hd stream.
A location number of 111 indicates i have the show in my collection, but they havent yet been assigned a location number. When leroy begins to get in trouble, gildy sets him on the straight and narrow by taking him on a nature hike. Marjorie and leroy want to go to the easter sunrise service and persuade gildersleeve to go with them. Old time radios first bona fide spinoff, throckmorton p. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 32 gildys all american boy.
A talented singer as a child, peary later went into radio in 1925. However gildy would also spend time under the stewardship of willard waterman. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 10 one too many secretaries. Beautiful visitor at the bullards the great gildersleeve.
I listened to the great gildersleeve about ten years ago and they became my bedtime pal. The great gildersleeve gildys all american boy s1e32 public domain comedy tv series full. While this is certainly true, there is much more to the show than that. The great gildersleeve comedy old time radio downloads.
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. The great gildersleeve a treasure of old time radio and an early spinoff success. Gildy finds a baby while out shopping, and takes it home for safekeeping. Great gildersleeves episode practice what you preach check us out on facebook at radio show. This is the 194950 season and it is the last to star harold peary. Ironically, pearys cbs show a virtual copy of the gildersleeve format only lasted one season, while watermans gildersleeve continued for several years after that. The classic archives old time radio channel 2,572 views. In the first season, under writer levinson, birdie was often portrayed as less than. And of course there is the excitement gildys first christmas in a new home. The abbott and costello show when a girl marries the road of life the great gildersleeve. He moved to summerfield, where he and takes on an instant family in the form of leroy and margerie forrester. The great gildersleeve was a happy endeavor where great talent met with great writing. Great gildersleeve free downloads new episodes are available regularly come back often. Watch the great gildersleeve season 1, episode 6 gildy stews about a cook.
Lillian randolph joins john wald as birdie during a parkay commercial. The great gildersleeve, old time radio show, 411102 baby sitting duration. Vacation time is over for the great gildersleeve and his family. With willard waterman, ronald keith, lillian randolph, stephanie griffin. The very first season of the great gildersleeve was already filled with extra excitement. 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 gildersleeve is a blustery ladies man who often finds himself in. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show fibber mcgee and molly became the star of his own program the great gildersleeve 19411957. The great gildersleeve was a radio sitcom and one of the first spinoffs.
Ive read season 9 is the last one with harold peary as the great gildersleeve, i wonder how bad it will get. Gildys new secretary the great gildersleeve comedy. The mayor thinks gildys floozy girlfriend is his new secretary when. The great gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the united states from august 31, 1941 to 1958. Christmas shows great gildersleeve old time radio show. 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. Raising his too smart nephew leroy, he leans on his secretary bessie and tries to ignore the advice of housekeeper birdie. The great gildersleeve was one of radios first spinoff series. Gildersleeve on broadway 1943 12 out of 4 the third in a four film series based on the popular radio show finds gildersleeve harold peary having to go to new york to try and talk a woman billie burke into not closing off her pharmacy department, which would put many smaller stores out of business. Reading this letter, gildersleeve sheds a tear for his sister, the hopes that she had for her life, and how much she has missed. This was the first of four feature films from rko based on harold pearys popular radio character the great gildersleeve that aired on the nbc network from 1941 to 1950. Great gildersleeve radio show 41843 nature hike youtube. In the fourth season, october 8, 1944 these three friends, along with police chief donald gates ken christy, form the nucleus of the jolly boys club whose.
Baby girl left in gildys car the great gildersleeve. For 6 hours of fun with the great gildersleeve visit. Recently, i came back to the series and decided to listen to them starting with season 1. The first program with mary lee robb in the role of marjorie. Gildersleeve was one of the most popular of the oddball characters that lived in wistful vista, the home of fibber mcgee and molly. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy fibber mcgee and molly. Built around throckmorton philharmonic gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy fibber mcgee. Great gildersleeve radio show 9848 mystery baby youtube.
Willard waterman took the gildy role starting with season 10. Great gildersleeves episode practice what you preach. Great gildersleeve 480421 285 gildys new secretary. After five years at the water department bessie is a model of inefficiency. Birdies engagement is on hold until she finds a suitable replacement, but. The thanksgiving and christmas episodes with harold perry are my favorite. By 1929, he had his own radio show and got his big. One of the earliest spinoffs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character throckmorton p. The great gildersleeve 1942 directed by gordon douglas.
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