The Great Gildersleeve: Fortune Teller (1942)

Gildersleeve helps run a booth at the Bundles for Blue Jackets Bazaar, where a fortune-telling tent was planned around a famous yogi who has missed his plane. Leroy and Marjorie persuade the reluctant Gildersleeve to pose as the yogi, promising to feed him gossip about the customers. He first tries a visit to a rival gypsy fortune teller, where a stolen watch becomes a comic complication. Back at the tent, his disguise and his improvised readings draw curious and suspicious visitors, and the day quickly becomes harder to manage than he expected. The episode is a 1942 broadcast of The Great Gildersleeve on NBC, starring Harold Peary.

With Great Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Penny Banks, Madame Rosalie, Mrs. Salisbury Twitchell, Lieutenant Quinn.

Listen for: Gildersleeve's reluctant attempts at fortune telling under a disguise, and the gypsy visit with the mistaken watch.

First aired on March 1, 1942 on NBC.

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