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Chief Gates On The Spot

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# Gildersleeve's Plan to Help Chief Gates Gildersleeve comes up with a bold idea to keep Chief Gates from losing his job. His solution? He decides to track down a bad guy for the Chief to catch. This way, Chief Gates will have an arrest to show and can keep his position. Written by Andy White, with Arthur Q. in the cast.

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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