The Harold Peary Show — 1951
24 episodes broadcast in 1951.
Still-unemployed cousin Raymond gets a man-to-man talking-to and a job as a Warbleware kitchenware demonstrator -- with comic complications sure to follow at Mrs. O'Day's party.
Left in charge while boss Peabody is away at a convention, an oversleeping Honest Harold manages to lose the station's sponsor and scrambles to invent a new show.
Leafing through his 1927 high-school annual on a wintry afternoon, Honest Harold weighs a flattering job offer that would take him from Melrose Springs to the big city.
Trying to make sweetheart Theodora jealous by dedicating a love song to old flame Florabelle, Harold overplays his hand and ends up engaged to both women at once.
Chasing the 'Oswald Award' for civic improvement, Harold gets Mayor Peabody to pass an ordinance -- only to discover his own law has grounded Doc Yancey's horse, and now he must get it repealed.
Harold is startled to learn his mother has a gentleman caller -- the very Mr. Walker he'd tangled with in a parking lot -- and that she's been bitten by the amateur-theatrical bug.
Cousin Raymond's Valentine deliveries go hilariously astray, tangling Harold's love life and upsetting Florabelle, as Harold croons 'Love's Old Story' and dons a Cinnamon Bear costume.
Newly single after Theodora leaves town for New York, Honest Harold settles into bachelor life just as an old flame, Florabelle, comes back around.
Florabelle's jilted fiance Willis -- a hulking grain merchant -- misreads Harold's brotherly friendliness and vows to break him in two, sending Harold hunting for a bodyguard.
Sworn off women (especially Florabelle), Harold throws himself into running the town's Red Cross fund drive, the morning after his first-aid class ends in disaster.
It's the fifteenth of March and, true to form, Honest Harold has left his income-tax return to the very last minute.
On the broadcast marking Peary's 10,000th time before a microphone, Honest Harold learns he's suddenly second cousin -- and guardian -- to a pint-sized 'little monster' named Marvin.
Young cousin Marvin's first day of school brings fresh headaches to the Hemp household.
Honest Harold rallies to help when his old crony Doc Yancey, the town's veteran veterinarian, is threatened with the loss of his post.
April 11, 1951
Hemp Forms A Boy's Club Branch
Honest Harold organizes a local branch of the Boys Clubs, and the star is honored with a national award.
Tasked with cleaning out the cellar, Honest Harold tries a Tom Sawyer-style dodge to get someone else to do the dirty work -- and finds it doesn't take.
Melrose Springs stages a circus, and Honest Harold is in the thick of the fun and chaos.
Honest Harold meets his match in a fast-talking sharpie named Mr. Walker as the two vie to show more class.
Harold turns himself into a delivery boy so that young cousin Marvin can make it to a party.
Standing in as marshal-for-a-day, the gullible Honest Harold reaches new heights of naivete when the real Pete leaves him in charge.
The series signs off on a Father's Day note as Honest Harold, moved by his fatherless young cousin, decides Marvin should stay on with him for good.
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Other seasons: 1950 ·