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Boy's Club

Gildersleeve decides to start a singing group named 'The Jolly Boys' to keep Leroy and his buddies out of trouble. What begins as a way to help the kids ends up becoming something that Gildersleeve and his three friends do for a long time.

The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve, on earlier episodes. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.

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“Boy's Club.” Great Gildersleeve. Radio broadcast, October 8, 1944.

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