History Radio / TheGreatGildersleeve

A comedic radio program that ran on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1941–57, centering around the life and exploits of Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve (played by Harold Peary until he left the show in 1950 and was replaced by Willard Waterman), who acts as guardian to his niece Marjorie (originally played by Creator/LureneTuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb), and his nephew Leroy (Walter Tetley). Other recurring characters included the household cook Birdie (Lillian Randolph), Judge Horace Hooker (Earle Ross), Richard Q. Peavey (Richard [=LeGrand=]), the friendly neighborhood pharmacist, and Floyd Munson (originally voiced by Creator/MelBlanc and later by Arthur Q. Bryan), the neighborhood barber.

The show began as a spinoff of ''Radio/FibberMcGeeAndMolly'', where Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent [=McGee=] nemesis. The character soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.

A comedic radio program that ran on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1941–1957, centering around the life and exploits of Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve (played by Harold Peary until he left in 1950 and was replaced by Willard Waterman), who acts as guardian to his niece Marjorie (originally played by Creator/LureneTuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb), and his nephew Leroy (Walter Tetley). Other recurring characters included the household cook Birdie (Lillian Randolph), Judge Horace Hooker (Earle Ross), Richard Q. Peavey (Richard [=LeGrand=]), the friendly neighborhood pharmacist, and Floyd Munson (originally voiced by Creator/MelBlanc and later by Arthur Q. Bryan), the neighborhood barber.

A comedic radio program that ran on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1941–1957, centering around the life and exploits of Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve (played by Harold Peary until he left in 1950 and was replaced by Willard Waterman), who acts as guardian to his niece Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb), and his nephew Leroy (Walter Tetley). Other recurring characters included the household cook Birdie (Lillian Randolph), Judge Horace Hooker (Earle Ross), Richard Q. Peavey (Richard [=LeGrand=]), the friendly neighborhood pharmacist, and Floyd Munson (originally voiced by Creator/MelBlanc and later by Arthur Q. Bryan), the neighborhood barber.

** Peavey's "Well, now, I wouldn't say that!" ...which is probably [[WeirdAlEffect better-known nowadays]] for its use in several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts of the same era.

A comedic radio program that ran on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1941–1957, centering around the life and exploits of Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve (played by Harold Peary until he left in 1950 and was replaced by Willard Waterman), who acts as guardian to his niece Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb), and his nephew Leroy (Walter Tetley). Other recurring characters included the household cook Birdie (Lillian Randolph), Judge Horace Hooker (Earle Ross), Richard Q. Peavey (Richard [=LeGrand=]), the friendly neighborhood pharmacist, and Floyd Munson (Arthur Q. Bryan), the neighborhood barber.

* NonIdleRich

* SitcomArchNemesis: Judge Hooker started out as this for Gildy before they gradually softened into VitriolicBestBuds.

* AnnoyingLaugh / EvilLaugh: Judge Hooker isn't evil, but his laugh certainly fits the trope.
** Then there's Gildersleeve's own, slightly lascivious-sounding trademark laugh.

The show began as a spinoff of ''FibberMcGeeAndMolly'', where Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent [=McGee=] nemesis. The character soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.

* HeelFaceTurn: Gildersleeve, from his previous appearances on ''FibberMcGeeAndMolly''. He later finds a {{Foil}} in Rumson Bullard, who displays many of Gildersleeve's own earlier traits.

* TookALevelInKindness: Gildersleeve, compared to how he was in ''FibberMcGeeAndMolly''.

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* TookALevelInKindness: Gildersleeve, compared to how he was in ''FibberMcGeeAndMolly''.

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: There were four films for RKO featuring most of the radio cast (save for Walter Tetley, who was actually an adult voice actor and therefore couldn't appear onscreen as Leroy).

* SoundToStageAdaptation: There were four films for RKO featuring most of the radio cast (save for Walter Tetley, who was actually an adult voice actor and therefore couldn't appear onscreen as Leroy).

* KavorkaMan: Throckmorton may be heavyset and middle-aged, but he has a way with the ladies regardless.