Category Archives: Great Gildersleeve

Christmas Episodes: Bergen & McCarthy and Great Gildersleeve

Posted on December 7, 2017 by oldradioshows

Christmas is too special of a holiday to be restricted to just one or two days. Yes, the Big Guy in Red coming down the Chimney and filling the stockings, followed by the kids ripping into all those beautifully wrapped … Continue reading →

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Walter Tetley: Old Time Radio’s Beloved Actor had a Lonely Story

Posted on January 26, 2017 by oldradioshows

Walter Tetley is one of Radio’s most beloved character actors also had one of the era’s saddest, and loneliest stories. Walter Tetley practically cornered the market as the “fresh-mouthed kid” character on radio. The precocious kid, who always managed to … Continue reading →

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Fibber and Molly Go To Gildersleeve’s Halloween Party

Posted on October 23, 2014 by oldradioshows

The holiday at the end of October was actually the lead into All Saints Day, November 1, and All Souls Day, Nov 2. The religious feast is a time to remember those Saints who don’t already have a feast day … Continue reading →

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Bumbling Humor and The Great Gildersleeve

Posted on December 15, 2013 by oldradioshows

The Great Gildersleeve premiered on August 31, 1941 on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, the show was actually a spin-off of another popular series, Fibber McGee and Molly. Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, or Gildy as … Continue reading →

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Christmas in Wistful Vista: Part 4

Posted on December 15, 2011 by oldradioshows

Skipping down Christmas Nostaliga Lane we return to our favorite old time radio comedy, Fibber McGee and Molly: On Christmas Eve 1946 becomes special; it is one of the few times the show is broadcast on Christmas Eve.  Teeny, the young girl … Continue reading →

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Christmas in Wistful Vista: Part 3

Posted on December 10, 2011 by oldradioshows

In our continuing journey down Christmas Nostaliga Lane from last year with our favorite old time radio comedy, Fibber McGee and Molly: In Christmas Radio Show episode from 1941, Fibber is determined not to spend money on a Christmas tree, so on Dec … Continue reading →

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Great Gildersleeve Christmas: Part 2

Posted on December 8, 2011 by oldradioshows

The Great Gildersleeve was one of the first households in broadcasting to feature a nontraditional family- two children being raised by an uncle with no father of mother. This doesn’t make Christmas any less special. Christmas Day, 1946 would fall … Continue reading →

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Fibber McGee and Molly’s Beulah: A Female African American Role on Radio played by a White Man

Posted on September 10, 2011 by oldradioshows

Beulah first appears at 79 Wistful Vista on Jan 25, 1944. At her first utterances there are peals of laughter from the studio audience, almost before she has said anything funny. Fibber McGee and Molly hire Beulah for one day … Continue reading →

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Ba-da-boom, It’s Mae West!

Posted on July 22, 2011 by oldradioshows

Before the sexual revolution of the 1960’s, there was Mae West. The entertaining, sometimes mischievous, always provocative and controversial Broadway performer and film star began her career in vaudeville. Born Mary Jane West in Brooklyn, New York on August 17, … Continue reading →

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Tax Time from the Golden Age of Radio

Posted on April 18, 2011 by oldradioshows

It’s tax time again. And it doesn’t get any better. Sometimes you wonder if that other inevitability might not be easier to deal with. But it isn’t all doom and gloom. Just turn on the Radio and see how some … Continue reading →

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