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Gildy In A Rut New Image

# Radio Episode Summary Gildersleeve feels very sure of himself around Leila Ransom, but his confidence gets knocked down when a wild and crazy newspaper guy shows up to compete with him. During the episode, Gildersleeve performs the song "When Day Is Done."

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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“Gildy In A Rut New Image.” Great Gildersleeve. Radio broadcast, May 5, 1946.

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