The Great Gildersleeve
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Oct 11, 2026
Billy MillsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Next week?
Molly McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Goodbye, Mr. Gildersleeve.
Billy MillsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Gildersleeve?
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hmm? I'll bet you I remember him, I betcha.
Billy MillsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What?
Billy MillsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Speaking in the vernacular, we call that a belly laugh.
Molly McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
McGee.
Molly McGeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mr. Gildersleeve says he's coming to visit us next week, and he'll be here for dinner
speaker_1NARRATOR
Tonight on NBC presents, you've been listening to some of the best in radio drama with The Saint and Johnny Dollar.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Be sure and join us again tomorrow night at the same time, 9:05, when NBC presents My Favorite Husband and The Great Gildersleeve.
speaker_1NARRATOR
[dramatic music]
speaker_9UNKNOWN
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Adam GrahamHOST
It started out a little bit slow, I thought, but really got interesting.
Adam GrahamHOST
Shirley Mitchell making an interesting appearance as the girlfriend, which is different because usually when we hear Shirley Mitchell, it's in a lot more comedic role, and she was famous for things like The Great Gildersleeve.
Adam GrahamHOST
And I always like how they work in these little happy endings.
Adam GrahamHOST
You know, I just finished, as of this recording, reading the Philip Marlowe book, The Little Sister.
Ken PetersNARRATOR
[whimsical music]
speaker_67NARRATOR
Kraft presents The Great Gildersleeve.
speaker_67NARRATOR
[laughs]
speaker_68UNKNOWN
[applauding] [upbeat music]
speaker_67NARRATOR
Each week at this time, Kraft presents from Hollywood, California, Harold Peary as The Great Gildersleeve, written by Leonard L. Levinson.
speaker_67NARRATOR
[upbeat music]
Jim BannonNARRATOR
[upbeat music]We'll hear from the great Gildersleeve in just a moment, but first, we might say that one good thing at least has come out of the world crisis, and that is that we Americans have learned that the right kind of food and plenty of it is vitally essential to national health and morale.
Jim BannonNARRATOR
And realizing this, we Americans can become the strongest nation on earth.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Yes, Gildy's eye for the ladies and his Impulsive temperament managed to entangle him in a web of riotous circumstances.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Join the romantic water commissioner, his neighbors, Judge Hooker, Mr. Peavy, and all the loyal Gildersleeve household as they romp through another episode of The Great Gildersleeve tomorrow night.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Now stay tuned for X-1 on NBC.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Countdown for blastoff.
Jim JordanVOICE_ACTOR
Next week?
Marion JordanVOICE_ACTOR
Goodbye, Mr. Gildersleeve.
Jim JordanVOICE_ACTOR
Gildersleeve?
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
Mm, I betcha I remember him, I betcha.
speaker_11VOICE_ACTOR
He's the man who always laughs with his stomach.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Marion JordanVOICE_ACTOR
Never mind.
Marion JordanVOICE_ACTOR
Mr. Gildersleeve says he's coming to visit us next week, and he'll be here for dinner.
Adam GrahamHOST
Now, he did have a few of those characters that he played over radio.
Adam GrahamHOST
There was a character in the very early days of The Great Gildersleeve who, uh, was Gildy's assistant, and Arthur Q. Bryan played him in a very much a similar characterization to Fudd.
Adam GrahamHOST
But then he went on to play a character in a much more straight-laced sort of voice that we heard in this episode as the recurring, uh, doctor on, uh, The Great Gildersleeve.
Adam GrahamHOST
Arthur Q. Bryan was also one of the actors who played Walt Levinson on Richard Diamond.
Adam GrahamHOST
He was the third Walt Levinson actor.
Adam GrahamHOST
Here are some that I came up with that where there were TV versions of some sort made.
Adam GrahamHOST
Some, uh, and this is, uh, The Lineup, Dangerous Assignment, The Man Called X, Gangbusters, Suspense, Casey Crime Photographer, Richard Diamond, Tales of the Texas Rangers, Our Miss Brooks, Li- The Life of Riley, Life with Luigi, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello, Dr. Christian, Easy Aces, uh, Lux Radio Theater, Your Favorite Story, Ozzie and Harriet.
Adam GrahamHOST
And that's not counting all the shows that they did pilots for, uh, Box 13, Notbe, Lum and Abner, Duffy's Tavern, uh, all recorded, uh, pilots.
Adam GrahamHOST
And of course, there was the Amos 'n Andy TV, uh, program based on the radio series.
Sergeant WillHOST
We will hear the quintessential radio adaptation starring Lionel Barrymore that was broadcast on the Hallmark Playhouse in 1950.
Sergeant WillHOST
Let's leave behind the Headless Horseman and go next to a funny fall in the suburban neighborhoods of Summerfield, raking leaves with Fibber, Miggy, and Molly in 1939 and the Great Gildersleeve in 1945.
Sergeant WillHOST
A classic author that sets a marvelous
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
macabre mood this time of year is Edgar Allan Poe.
33 MINS LATER
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, what's the hurry, Molly? It took them seven months to fall down.
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I guess they can wait an hour to be raked up.
Marian JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, now I tell you, Mr. Gildersleeve next door has been complaining.
Jim JordanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, that
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
Also heard on today's broadcast was Miss Anne Williams of New Orleans, Louisiana, who was chosen by this program from among the dramatic students of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
Be sure to hear The Great Gildersleeve next Wednesday evening over most of these stations.
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
In next Wednesday's broadcast, Gildy comes face to face with an hilarious problem and solves it in a way that will keep you laughing for days.
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
Remember the show, the time, and the place, The Great Gildersleeve, next Wednesday evening over most of these stations.
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
Check your newspaper for time of broadcast.
Ed HerlihyNARRATOR
This is Ed Hurley speaking for the Kraft Foods Company.
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