The Great Gildersleeve — 1948
39 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Ann Tuttle is back in Summerfield, and Gildersleeve's interest hasn't cooled a bit.
Unsettled that Marjorie has taken up steady with Oscar, Gildersleeve schemes to break things off using an unlikely tool: a horse.
Gildersleeve and Judge Hooker square off for the head of the School Board (marking Peary's 25th year in radio).
Getting his 1948 license plates proves anything but simple for Gildersleeve.
With Mayor Terwilliger called out of town, Gildersleeve becomes acting mayor.
Gildersleeve gets himself a pair of glasses he doesn't remotely need.
Leila's cousin Adeline Fairchild moves in next door (Peary sings 'Speak to Me of Love').
Gildersleeve suspects his beautiful new neighbor Adeline is scheming to steal Birdie away.
Gildersleeve tries to coax the girl-shy Leroy into going to a party.
Gildersleeve starts weighing the idea of marriage, though every married man he knows seems to be in trouble at home; the Jolly Boys sing 'Dear Old Girl.'
Gildersleeve's courtship of Adeline Fairchild threatens to escalate into a duel.
Gildersleeve's plan to bring Adeline to a Jolly Boys meeting proves a poor idea.
Marjorie appears to have fallen for her French teacher.
Gildersleeve sets out to organize a Boys' Club baseball team and raise money for a field.
Gildersleeve is invited to talk about the city water system over Summerfield's WSUM.
A chance late-night sighting leads the mayor, and seemingly everyone else in Summerfield, to assume Adeline Fairchild has replaced Bessie as Gildersleeve's secretary.
Gildersleeve plans an anniversary dinner for two months with Adeline, but Birdie is out of town.
Gildersleeve takes Leroy fishing, then faces the question of who'll clean the bass.
Gildersleeve's plan to phone in sick and relax at home turns out to be harder than it sounds.
Gildersleeve endures a meeting of Summerfield's Green Thumb Flower and Garden Club -- and regrets it.
Borrowing a brand-new Mercedes, Gildersleeve has all his friends convinced he's suddenly rich.
In Louise Erickson's final episode as Marjorie, the season closes with the mayor sacking Gildersleeve from his water-commissioner post.
The new season opens with Gildersleeve discovering an infant left in his car, kicking off an extended storyline.
Gildersleeve is left home alone in charge of the baby (Peary sings 'My Little Buckaroo').
Displaced from his own bedroom to make room for the mystery baby, a wounded Leroy declares he'll sleep in a packing crate instead.
With no name yet settled on for the foundling baby, the household kicks off a contest to name the Gildersleeve mystery baby.
Gildersleeve tries to reform and make a good impression on welfare investigator Miss Crabtree so he can keep the baby.
A dreaded telegram warns that interfering Aunt Hattie is on her way for a visit.
Marjorie decides she'll marry so the baby will have a proper home.
Believing a wedding ring is the only path to keeping the foundling baby, Gildersleeve pops the question.
November 3, 1948
Despite his engagement to Adeline, Gildersleeve winds up engaged to Leila as well (Gildy sings 'Speak to Me of Love').
One fiancee down and one to go, as Gildersleeve untangles his double engagement.
A problem at the reservoir puts Commissioner Gildersleeve in line for a helicopter ride.
Looking to teach Leroy the value of a dollar, Gildersleeve sets him up with a wintertime job hawking newspapers in the snow.
Someone in the household keeps swiping the wrapped Christmas gifts from under Gildersleeve's roof -- an inside job if there ever was one.
Gildersleeve goes Christmas shopping, failing utterly in his attempt to economize.
On Christmas Eve, Gildersleeve discovers the true identity of the mystery baby's father (Lillian Randolph sings).
To marry or not to marry -- Gildersleeve and Adeline Fairchild edge toward the altar.
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