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Leroy Has Trouble With The Mayor's Son

Gildersleeve tells Leroy he needs to become friends with the Mayor's son, which turns out to be really hard. The show features writing by Andy White and John Elliotte, music by Jack Meakin, and announcer Bud Hiestand. The cast includes Barbara Whiting, Lillian Randolph, Marylee Robb, Richard LeGrand, Stanley Farrar, Tommy Bernard, Walter Tetley, and Willard Waterman.

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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“Leroy Has Trouble With The Mayor's Son.” Great Gildersleeve. Radio broadcast, April 8, 1953.

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