The Great Gildersleeve: Old-Time Radio Comedy
By Stupid Potato
Categories: Fiction, Comedy Fiction, History
Old-time radio comedy from 1941–1958 starring Harold Peary as Great Gildersleeve, Willard Waterman as Gildersleeve. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. The Great Gildersleeve: 517 episodes from NBC, with Lillian Randolph, Lurene Tuttle, Mary Lee Robb, in the order they first aired. A new episode every day, and live around the clock. From Stupid Potato: 60 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 189 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.
19 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's New Dog (1941)
Leroy Gildersleeve receives a large puppy named Tiny as a Christmas gift from his friend Piggy. Uncle Gildersleeve, Bertie and Marjorie soon find the dog unmanageable, as Tiny chews through household items, wrecks the Christmas tree and causes trouble in the kitchen. Leroy tries to train him, but…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Christmas Gift for Fibber Mc Gee (1941)
Gildersleeve, a small-town Midwestern man, is buying a Christmas gift for his friend Fibber McGee, a man known for borrowing things. Gildersleeve is shopping with his nephew Leroy and his niece Marjorie, and he grows embarrassed when a more expensive gift from McGee arrives. The series, known as…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Selling the Iron Deer (1941)
Gildersleeve sends his nephew Leroy and the household to sell an old iron deer ornament from the storeroom to raise money for Christmas after the family's cash has been tied up in defense bonds. Leroy sells the deer to a junk dealer, Mr. Skinner, but the deer then goes missing, and Skinner…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Cousin Octavia Visits (1941)
Gildersleeve and his family wait at the Summerfield train station for the arrival of Cousin Octavia, a visiting author on a lecture tour. Octavia is a strict advocate of child-rearing rules, and the household soon finds her difficult. Barbara Ann, the young daughter of the family's relatives…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Canary Won't Sing (1941)
Gildersleeve wins a canary in a raffle at the Kraft-sponsored episode's home-front setting, but Napoleon, as he names the bird, refuses to sing. Gildersleeve and his nephew Leroy, with Marjorie and Bertie, try to coax the bird into song, first at home and then at the public library, where…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy Smokes a Cigar (1941)
Leroy and Peggy Banks find an old family album in the attic with Gildersleeve and Bertie, then later are sold a box of cigars by a persuasive salesman who charges for everything but the cigars. The two boys try smoking one, with unpleasant results. The Great Gildersleeve series aired on NBC on…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Halloween Party (1943)
Gildersleeve, the pompous small-town head of a household, prepares a Halloween party at his home for his niece Marjorie, while his housekeeper Birdie and his nephew Leroy add to the confusion. Gildersleeve is a bit of a bumbler, and the evening's guests are a mix of his neighbors and friends…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Haunted House (1943)
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and his fiancee Leila Ransom argue over where to live after their marriage. Leila wants to move to the old Burton house, while Throckmorton prefers the family home he has known for years. Judge Hooker and Bertie the housekeeper add to the debate, and Leroy is unsettled…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Servicemen for Thanksgiving (1941)
Great Gildersleeve decides to invite a soldier home for Thanksgiving after hearing a radio appeal, and his niece Marjorie and nephew Leroy help him gather guests. Summerfield's soldiers are stationed in Bacon Square, and the household has prepared turkeys and a party of girls for the afternoon…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Birdie Quits (1941)
Marjorie and Uncle Mort Gildersleeve prepare a birthday dinner for Judge Hooker, a neighbour they have never warmed to. Oliver Honeywell, a lodger who cuts his own hair, is also invited. The Great Gildersleeve is a Hollywood-produced comedy series, first broadcast on NBC on November 9, 1941…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Babysitting (1941)
Gildersleeve learns that his old friend Charlie Dappell has married, and he decides to surprise him with a visit. When he arrives at the Dappell apartment, Mrs. Dappell is out, leaving Gildersleeve and his nephew Leroy to care for the baby, Gertrude, who keeps them busy. The Great Gildersleeve is…
- The Great Gildersleeve: A Visit from Oliver (1941)
After a long evening of quiz games and tea, Marjorie and Leroy's friend Oliver Honeywell stays overnight at the Gildersleeve house, where Uncle Mort and his niece and nephew try to make the late hours pleasant for him. Oliver is given borrowed pajamas and a blanket, and he worries about drafts and…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Pranks at School (1941)
Leroy wants to skip school to see the circus, but his uncle Gildersleeve refuses to excuse him. Judge Hooker and Gildersleeve, reminiscing over checkers, boast to Leroy about the pranks they played as schoolboys. Leroy takes these stories to heart, and the school soon faces a string of strange…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Investigate the City Jail (1941)
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a Summerfield citizen newly arrived in town, is recruited by Judge Hooker and Ted Swanson of the Clean Government Association to investigate suspicious conditions at the city jail. Believing that a respectable newcomer would be a perfect undercover investigator, they…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Hiccups (1941)
Gildersleeve prepares to appear in court to present a financial report on the Throckmorton estate, but a stubborn case of hiccups keeps interrupting him. Marjorie, Ted, Leroy and Bertie each offer folk remedies, from cold water and breath control to a cold knife and a cold shower, and none seem to…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Marjorie's Girl Friend Visits (1941)
Marjorie Gildersleeve's college friend Dorabelle Claiborne arrives to stay at the Gildersleeve house while she looks for a husband. Marjorie's younger brother Leroy and Uncle Mort are soon trying to manage the visitor, and Dorabelle quickly attracts the attention of Ted Wills, who has been…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Paper Route (1941)
Leroy Forrester wants to buy a plane motor from his friend Piggy, so Leroy takes a morning paper route to earn the money his guardian, Judge Hooker, advances him as a loan. Early one rainy morning Leroy is supposed to deliver papers, but his uncle, Mr. Gildersleeve, drives him along the route in…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Cake (1941)
Brock Morton, known as Gildersleeve, has become guardian of his niece Marjorie and nephew Leroy Forrester in Summerfield. Before a tea party for Marjorie's beau Ted's parents, the two children and Gildersleeve eat a cake Marjorie baked for the occasion. Leroy and Gildersleeve then try to bake a…
- The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Arrives at Summerfield (1941)
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve travels to Summerfield to take over the administration of his brother-in-law's estate, which will be run for his niece Marjorie and nephew Leroy. On the train he clashes with a diner companion and an upper-berth passenger, and he arrives tired and irritable. At the…
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