The Great Gildersleeve: Auto Mechanics (1942)

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a Wistful Vista handyman with a reputation for fixing machines, is asked to teach a Red Cross Motor Corps class how to take an automobile motor apart and put it together again. Leroy and Marjorie help him prepare, but Gildersleeve admits he knows little about cars and turns to his friend Judge Hooker for help. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on NBC on February 8, 1942, starring Harold Peary, Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle. The class goes ahead in a borrowed station wagon, with Gildersleeve teaching while trying to keep up appearances.

With Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Birdie, Judge Hooker, Mrs. Salisbury Twitchell, Captain Moore.

Listen for: Gildersleeve's confident claims about motors, and the mounting comic trouble as he tries to live up to them in front of the class

First aired on February 8, 1942 on NBC.

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