Leila Ransom. Widely-acknowleged as radio's first spin-off, Harold Peary expanded his role as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from FM&M into his own half hour show.
Sign up and add shows to get the latest updates about your favorite shows - Download the TV Guide app for iPhone, iPad and Android! The Great Gildersleeve (TV Series 1954– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The Great Gildersleeve receives a lot of notice for being the first successful "Spin-off" program, where a character from one show leaves and a new program is built around them. Collins College needs a new department head for their science department. Reproduction is prohibited.You have reached the maximum number of votes for a unregistered user.You have reached the maximum number to down votes in this page.JavaScript must be enable to properly use this website!Welcome to OTRCAT.com: Old Time Radio Catalog Your typical B-comedy. Fibber McGee and Molly was the finest husband and wife comedy team. 11 of 15 people found this review helpful. We use to listen to The Great Gildersleeve and Suspense with the family. I know they were friends and Iâm not sure if Willard refused to do the laugh out of respect for Hal or if Hal asked Willard not do it. When it came down to the end where he lost the election and realized he didn't really want to marry and get stuck with that awful mother in law that was planning on living with them all he wanted was to break it off and when Eve did it for him, he immediately ask for goodbye kiss which was probably all they could get away with on 1940s radio. Walter Tetley, who played Leroy on radio, could not appear on screen as Leroy because he was actually an adult playing a child character. The Great Gildersleeve was one of radio’s first great spin-off shows. The story goes that when she heard the Gildersleeve show was being cast, she made a dash for the NBC Studios. The Great Gildersleeve radio show was a spin-off of the Johnson’s Wax Program with Fibber McGee and Molly. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Today, The Great Gildersleeve is one of the most fondly remembered of radio’s comedic figures — an earnest, well-meaning fellow who often found himself the unfortunate victim of his own pomposity. Along with her sister Amanda she struggled to find work in order to make ends meet. Throckmorton P Gildersleeve. Raising his too smart nephew Leroy, he leans on his secretary Bessie and tries to ignore the advice of housekeeper Birdie. A key figure in the Gildersleeve home was (black) cook and housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins (Outside the home, Gildersleeve's closest association was with the executor of his brother-in-law's estate, Judge Horace Hooker (In the fourth season, these three friends, along with Police Chief Donald Gates (Ken Christy), formed the nucleus of the Jolly Boys Club, whose activities revolve around practicing barbershop quartet songs between sips of Several women passed through Gildersleeve's life during the series, including three he almost married before settling into a pattern of casual dating. Peary's magnificent and his supporting cast is … © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The show was well acted, well produced, and well written. Harold Peary had played several character roles on “Fibber McGee and Molly,” including various pompous characters with the last name Gildersleeve. The first show was broadcast on August 31, 1941, sponsored by Parkay Margarine. Blustery water commissioner Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve gets into plenty of hot water. One of the best OTR comedies.