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The Great Gildersleeve
- Heard
- 1941–1957
- Episodes
- 978
- Language
- English
THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE
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The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast from August 31, 1941, to March 21, 1957. 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, 1939 episode (number 216) of that series. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. 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. In Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and nemesis of Fibber McGee. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character went by several aliases on Fibber McGee and Molly
Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 10
Where it comes from 18
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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The Great Gildersleeve - Single Episodes
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GG Season 01
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GG Season 02
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GG Season 05
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GG Season 04
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GG Season 06
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GG Season 07
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GG Season 11
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GG Season 03
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GG Season 08
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GG Season 09
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GG Season 12
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GG Season 10
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The Great Gildersleeve
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The Great Gildersleeve (The Harold Peary Years)
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The Great Gildersleeve (The Willard Waterman years)
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Great Gildersleeve 53 12 02 Earning Christmas Money
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Great Gildersleeve 50 12 27 Gildy And Bullard Double Date New Year's Eve
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53 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.
A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.
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