The Great Gildersleeve — 1946
38 episodes broadcast in 1946.
Ben returns from the Navy, but Marjorie shows no interest in rekindling things.
Gildersleeve tries to set Ben up in a new career selling life insurance.
Gildersleeve and his friends set out to run a phony palm-reader, Satorius, out of Summerfield.
Horace prods Gildersleeve and Leila to stop acting too old for romance.
Gildersleeve and Bullard attempt to settle their feud like diplomats -- until a rock in a snowball intervenes.
With his car balking yet again, Gildersleeve is tempted to buy a flashy 'new' Cord.
Leroy comes down with the flu, a trying stretch for Gildersleeve too.
Told he's becoming hard to live with, Gildersleeve takes up building a ship in a bottle (Gildy sings 'Make Believe').
The state water inspector is coming to Summerfield, and a nervous Gildersleeve is running scared.
When Marjorie can't land a date, Gildersleeve escorts her to the dance himself.
Leroy winds up at the police station over some lumber he and a friend took without asking; the musical number this week, performed by the Jolly Boys, is 'They Called It Ireland.'
A Summerfield costume ball sets Gildersleeve musing about the early Gildersleeve family line.
Weighed down by gloom, Gildersleeve and his friends escape on an idyllic picnic.
Gildersleeve angles to cut short his obligatory annual dinner with Judge Hooker.
A bank robber and killer is loose in Summerfield.
A streetcar dumped on a vacant lot spurs Gildersleeve and Bullard to organize a protest petition (a housing-shortage message show).
Leroy desperately wants a pony, and Judge Hooker's boyhood story doesn't help.
Gildersleeve's smugness toward Leila is jolted by a zany newspaperman rival (Gildy sings 'When Day Is Done').
Gildersleeve maneuvers to see off a rival for Leila's affections.
Leroy wants no part of it, but Gildersleeve throws a birthday celebration for Ethel Hammerschlag anyway.
Swinging in his hammock, Gildersleeve recalls the day he first met Leila.
Gildersleeve looks back on his near-miss at the lead in a local staging of 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' with a musical interlude of 'I Kiss Your Hand, Madame' from Gildy.
Season finale: Gildersleeve recalls a Jolly Boys Fourth of July picnic (they sing 'In the Good Old Summertime').
The commissioner decides to shut off the water of residents who haven't paid their bills.
Dodging a PTA singing engagement for a date with Leila, Gildersleeve learns she's to marry Dr. Culpepper.
Leila's wedding invitations arrive -- announcing a marriage to someone other than the water commissioner.
Leila leaves Summerfield to be married, a painful parting for Gildersleeve.
Nursing his heartbreak, Gildersleeve starts contemplating a retirement annuity.
Money is so tight that Gildersleeve steels himself to ask for a raise while Leroy sells newspapers.
Gildersleeve dabbles in real estate, trying to get Judge Hooker to board with him.
Marjorie's pajama party sets the stage for a possible engagement.
Pursuing a beautiful stranger leads Gildersleeve straight to his old rival Otto Harbach, in a dream sequence built around Gildy's rendition of 'People Will Say We're in Love.'
Gildersleeve tackles Plato's 'Republic' in a bid to improve Leroy's education.
Birdie takes a vacation, and Gildersleeve-family meals are never quite the same.
The Jolly Boys take on the sponsorship of an eight-month-old orphan baby girl.
Leroy is being terrorized by the town bully, Craig Bullard.
Leroy sets his heart on a motor scooter as Gildersleeve preaches modest Christmas expectations.
Fearing little Craig Bullard faces a sad Christmas after his parents' quarrel, Gildersleeve rallies the carolers.
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