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Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs.
The series was built around the character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular element of the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3, episode number of that series. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spinoff and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
The character went by several aliases on Fibber McGee and Molly; his middle name was revealed to be "Philharmonic" in "Gildersleeve's Diary" episode on October 22, It moves the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve oversees his late brother-in-law's estate and rears his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie and Leroy Forrester.
The household also includes a cook named Birdie. While Gildersleeve had occasionally mentioned his unseen wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series he is a confirmed bachelor. At the outset of the series, Gildersleeve administers a girdle manufacturing company "If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve" ; later and during the remainder of the show he serves as Summerfield's water commissioner.
In the first season, under writer Levinson, Birdie was often portrayed as less than intelligent, but she slowly developed as the real brains and caretaker of the household under Whedon and other writers. During the ninth season September June she met and married Walter "Bronco" Thompson Richard Crenna , star football player at the local college. Look devoted five pages in its May 23, , issue to the wedding. After living in the same household for a few years, the newlyweds moved next door.
Leroy Walter Tetley , who remained age 10—11 during most of the s, began to grow up in the spring of , establishing relationships with the girls in the Bullard home across the street.
He developed interests in driving, playing the drums and dreaming of a musical career. Neighbors and Friends Outside the home, Gildersleeve's closest association was with the executor of his brother-in-law's estate, Judge Horace Hooker Earle Ross , with whom he had many battles during the first few broadcast seasons. After a change in scriptwriters in January , the confrontations slowly subsided and the two men became friends.
During the second season, pharmacist Richard Q. Bryan from December onward joined Gildersleeve's circle of acquaintances. Get ready for realms of absurdity only possible with radio comedy!
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