Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: August 31st 1941
LAST BROADCAST: March 21st 1957
SPONSORS: Kraft Foods
CAST: Hal Peary, Willard Waterman, Walter Tetley, Lurene Tuttle, Marylee Robb, Earle Ross, Lillian Randolph, Richard Legrand, Forrest Lewis, Hans Conried, Arthur Q Bryan, Una Merkel, Shirley Mitchell, Tommy Bernard, Gale Gordon, Dick Crenna, Bea Benaderet
ANNOUNCERS: Ken Carpenter, John Wald, Jay Stewart, John Hiestand, Harlow Wilcox
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Fran Van Hartesfeldt, Karl Gruener, Cecil Underwood
WRITERS: John Whedon, Sam Moore, Virginia Safford Lynne, Andy White
SOUND EFFECTS: Floyd Caton, Virgil Reimer, Monty Fraser
ORCHESTRA: Jack Meakin
The Great Gildersleeve – 1941-1958
In 1941 Throckmorton P Gildersleeve spun off into his own radio program, becoming the first radio character to do so. He had originally appeared on Fibber McGee and Molly in 1937 and left to become the Water Commissioner of Summerfield and to raise his niece and nephew. The series had the same appeal as today’s soaps because each episode was connected. Gildersleeve’s romances were often at the centre of it all. The best of the romances is the one with Leila Ransom.
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