31st ANNIVERSARY BROADCAST

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, April 28, 2001

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (8-31-41) First show in the series. Harold Peary stars as Throck­morton P. Gildersleeve, owner of the Gilder­sleeve Girdle Works in Wistful Vista, who goes to Summerfield to visit his nephew and niece and become administrator of his brother’s es­tate. He gets off on the wrong foot with Judge Hooker, who rules that Gildy must stay in Sum­merfield. Lurene Tuttle as Marjorie, Walter Tet­ley as Leroy, Earle Ross as Judge Hooker. Kraft Foods, NBC. (29 min)

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (6-14-50) Harold Peary’s last appearance as Gildersleeve. The mayor of Summerfield asks the Water Com­missioner take his vacation right away. Gildy rounds up the family for a cruise on a house­boat. Mary Lee Robb as Marjorie, Walter Tet­ley as Leroy, Cathy Lewis as Catherine Milford, Dick LeGrande as Peavy. Kraft Foods, NBC. (29 min)

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (9-6­50) Willard Waterman’s first appearance as Throckmor­ton P. Gildersleeve. After a long vacation, Gildy returns to find Marjorie’s husband Broncho (Richard Crenna) sporting a black eye. Lillian Randolph as Birdie, Mary Lee Robb as Marjorie, Walter Tet­ley as Leroy, Arthur Q. Brian as Floyd Munson, the barber. Kraft Foods, NBC. (30 Min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (11-6- 93) Willard Waterman, Shirley Mitchell and Mary Lee Robb, former stars of the Great Gildersleeve series, talk about the program and its cast in a conversa­tion with Chuck Schaden recorded before a live studio audience at the Museum of Broad­cast Communications in the Chicago Cultural Center. Willard Waterman died in 1995 at age 80.

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (11-6-93) A re-enact­ment of a Gildersleeve program originally broadcast on March 28, 1943: “Gildy has Spring Fever” starring Willard Waterman, Shirley Mitchell, Mary Lee Robb and members of our Those Were The Days Radio Players, directed by Jed Skillman.