The Great Gildersleeve — 1947
40 episodes broadcast in 1947.
Vowing to be a 'bad boy' this year, Gildersleeve dons a pirate costume and heads to the New Year's ball without a date.
Leila is back in Summerfield, and Gildersleeve's heart starts pounding all over again.
News that Judge Hooker may be on his deathbed forces the Jolly Boys to call off their planned sleigh ride; the group sings 'Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party.'
Dancing school for Leroy, a returned fraternity pin for Marjorie, and Gildersleeve's own love life all hang in the balance.
Marjorie's dashing new hot-rod boyfriend Jerry Walsh makes Ben look dull -- and that's exactly the problem.
Leroy and Craig both take to selling 'Post-War Barn and Home' magazine, along with half the town.
An old high-school chum, now quite accomplished, stops by to see Gildersleeve while passing through Summerfield.
With Bessie out sick, her striking cousin Prudence Kilpatrick fills in as Gildersleeve's secretary.
Having seen how good Prudence is, Gildersleeve resolves to fire the inefficient Bessie.
Marjorie is head-over-heels for romantic crooner Larry Lake.
Leroy and Craig are picked up for taking lumber (a rebroadcast honoring the Boys' Clubs of America).
Reaching the bank too late, Gildersleeve must take $2,200 in water-department cash home overnight.
About to end Leroy's piano lessons, Gildersleeve meets the new music teacher, Joanne Piper.
Gildersleeve falls hard for Joanne Piper, Leroy's piano teacher.
Gildersleeve has tea with Miss Piper and invites her on a picnic (Gildy sings 'Yours Is My Heart Alone').
Judge Hooker warns Gildersleeve the whole town is gossiping about his infatuation with Joanne Piper.
Gildersleeve's double social engagement with Joanne Piper and Leila Ransom somehow ends with Leroy taking a punch to the nose; Harold Peary's musical turn this week is 'Just a Little Love, a Little Kiss.'
Gildersleeve and Miss Piper resolve on a purely platonic bond, like Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck.
Left off Craig Bullard's party list, a crestfallen Leroy gets a cheering-up from Gildersleeve.
Peavey vanishes after a Jolly Boys meeting, and Mrs. Peavey takes center stage in the search.
Convinced Leroy is learning nothing at school, Gildersleeve airs his own theories of education.
After a physical, Gildersleeve reluctantly gives up his beloved cigars.
Season finale: a family trip to the movies (staged for radio) turns into an IRS summons for Gildersleeve.
Gildersleeve's romantic interest in Eve Goodwin flares up once again (Gildy sings 'Why Do I Love You?').
A Saturday of catching up on paperwork ends with Gildersleeve stuck up a ladder cleaning the roof.
Gildersleeve is dragged, against his will, into a rivalry over his own secretary Bessie's boyfriend.
Gildersleeve discovers that borrowing $100 from his friends is far harder than he assumed.
The lovely Ann Tuttle is staying at the Bullards', and a smitten Gildersleeve finds things won't go his way.
Marjorie takes a Friday-night babysitting job -- the question is whether she'll spend it with or without Ben.
Casting about to better himself, Gildersleeve sets his sights on becoming Congressman Gildersleeve.
A Halloween party at Mrs. Dalrymple's draws far more guests than Gildersleeve would like (Jolly Boys sing 'It's Always Fair Weather').
Gildersleeve goes from having no date for the big hayride to juggling two.
Gildersleeve is fleeced buying a suspiciously cheap 'wholesale' fur coat from a hotel-room sharper.
Cast as Paul Revere in the school play, Leroy manages to lose the role almost as soon as he lands it.
A Thanksgiving gift of 'Tom Sawyer' inspires Leroy and Craig to vanish toward the raging creek on a raft.
With the water department's annual report and Leroy's geography homework both due by daybreak, an exhausted Gildersleeve drifts off dreaming of Alaska and the South Seas.
Gildersleeve goes Christmas shopping (Peary sings 'You Do').
Gildersleeve lands in hot water with the mayor over accusations of loafing (Harold Peary was out sick, so Gildy's voice is absent).
Out to buy Leroy a model airplane, Gildersleeve comes home with a puppy instead (Lillian Randolph sings a carol; the cast sings 'Joy to the World').
Gildersleeve wonders whether he'll ring in the New Year quietly at home with Judge Hooker.
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