The Great Gildersleeve — 1952
53 episodes broadcast in 1952.
After Bronco lands a new job, Gildersleeve tries to advance his own career with a new company in town.
Gildersleeve has vanished -- he was, in fact, in the hospital during the broadcast (Waterman appears only briefly, by recording).
Back from the hospital, Gildersleeve can't stop telling everyone about his operation, and a relapse comes in handy.
Gildersleeve and Paula can never get a moment alone, with Babs forever underfoot.
Gildersleeve and the Jolly Boys plot to rescue Judge Hooker from a scheming woman.
Gildersleeve hires Floyd Munson's wife at the water department -- and inherits Floyd too, a bad bargain.
Bullard misreads Marjorie's engagement ring as proof Gildersleeve means to elope with his sister Paula.
Gildersleeve angles to be the town's civic coordinator, only to lose the post to a pretty college professor.
Leroy and Babs Bullard suddenly decide they don't need adults telling them what to do.
Gildersleeve fawns over Mr. Bullard to secure a $2,000 loan for Marjorie and Bronco -- and Bullard moves right in.
Gildersleeve plans a water-commissioners' trip to Omaha and tries to keep it from Leroy.
Gildersleeve strains to grow a garden as fine as Mr. Bullard's.
Television arrives in Summerfield with a vengeance -- everyone seems to own a set except the water commissioner.
A visiting woman insists Gildersleeve is really her husband, William Cosgrove.
Whether to attend the Easter sunrise service is the family's dilemma (Birdie sings a hymn).
Leroy invests in a hive of bees that take an immediate dislike to Gildersleeve.
Wounded that a newspaper survey finds hardly anyone recognizes him in his official capacity, Gildersleeve dons a diving suit and heads for the reservoir floor to make his mark.
Leroy's failing report card threatens his summer camp -- or does it?
'Lonesome Leroy' trades his beehive for a guitar and plans to run away and become a singing cowboy.
Bronco's homecoming leaves him struggling to find five minutes alone with Marjorie.
After some not-so-subtle hints, Marjorie and Bronco finally move into their own home.
Needing $20 for a bike motor, Leroy rents out his own room to raise it.
Gildersleeve falls head over heels for wandering folk singer Katie Lee.
Gildersleeve schemes -- perhaps with chickens -- to get Bronco to build a wall between their yards.
A guess-the-beans contest at Peavey's drugstore offers a lamp as the prize.
Returning Leroy's broken baseball glove pits Gildersleeve against a no-nonsense complaint-counter clerk.
Gildersleeve badly wants to give the Fourth of July speech, but Judge Hooker is just as determined to make it himself.
Gildersleeve goes fishing while his girl boats with his rival, again catching nothing but fish.
Gildersleeve and Leroy pitch camp in the backyard and run into every kind of trouble.
Gildersleeve decides to install a family suggestion box.
It looks as though Bronco has sold Gildersleeve's house out from under him.
Leroy turns alarmingly, suspiciously good -- and danger surely lies ahead.
Mocked by the family for his weight, Gildersleeve resolves once more to diet.
Leroy launches a laundry business but forgets to mark whose shirts are whose.
Cousin Emily the actress comes to visit and charms absolutely everyone.
Gildersleeve tries -- and fails miserably -- to outshine Cousin Emily, even resorting to a horse.
An ink bottle tips over onto Mr. Bullard's rug, and Gildersleeve scrambles to get the stain out before Bullard walks through the door.
Leroy takes his driving test, and Gildersleeve learns it's harder than it looks.
Gildersleeve tries to broker peace between the feuding Peavey and Judge Hooker.
To economize, Gildersleeve attempts a whole date on just one dollar.
Juggling both Gloria and Paula, Gildersleeve trips himself up over a stray pair of gloves.
To prove Leroy doesn't need a new watch, Gildersleeve wears his own old one all day.
Disappointed that Leroy was cut from the football team, Gildersleeve ends up committed to a tennis match against his rival, Dr. Olsen.
Invited to golf with the mayor, Gildersleeve leaves him waiting at the first tee thanks to a stiff neck.
An argument with Leroy's beautiful teacher, Grace Tuttle, lands Gildersleeve in a supply closet.
Gildersleeve scolds Leroy for being careless with his things, though he's hardly careful himself.
Gildersleeve takes up bird-watching to impress his latest flame, Miss Grace Tuttle.
A birthday duck dinner for Mrs. Potter keeps expanding as more guests are added.
Leroy takes a commission-only Christmas job at Peavey's drugstore.
Grace Tuttle's mooching brother Sydney takes Gildersleeve for quite a ride.
With Marjorie, Bronco, and the twins away, Christmas feels hollow for Gildersleeve and Leroy alone (the Kraft Choristers sing).
Stood up by Grace Tuttle on New Year's Eve, Gildersleeve and Peavey reminisce about his old girlfriends.
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