Abstract is: The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve, on earlier episodes. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. In Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and antagonist of Fibber McGee. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character went by several aliases on Fibber McGee and Molly; his middle name was revealed to be "Philharmonic" on October 22, 1940, in episode #258, "Fibber Discovers Gildersleeve's Locked Diary". "Gildy" grew so popular that Kraft Foods—promoting its Parkay margarine—sponsored a new series featuring Peary's somewhat mellowed and always befuddled Gildersleeve as the head of his own family.
radio program | Q1555508 |
P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | topic/The-Great-Gildersleeve |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/01z9h0 |
P144 | based on | Fibber McGee and Molly | Q4355416 |
P495 | country of origin | United States of America | Q30 |
P582 | end time | 1958-01-01 | |
P136 | genre | sitcom | Q170238 |
P407 | language of work or name | English | Q1860 |
P580 | start time | 1941-08-31 | |
P1476 | title | The Great Gildersleeve |
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