The Great Gildersleeve: Selling the Drugstore (1942)
Laugh Track · Nov 13, 2026 · 29:50
Laugh Track · Nov 13, 2026 · 29:50
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Gildersleeve, a small-town man, and his niece and nephew, Marjorie and Leroy, start a holiday morning at home on George Washington's birthday. Gildersleeve is trying to sell the drugstore the estate has taken over in lieu of unpaid rent, but the business is losing money and a probate judge is coming to question him about the estate's accounts. Meanwhile Leroy, keen on the truth after a lecture on it, complicates matters. This is an episode of The Great Gildersleeve, first broadcast on NBC on February 22, 1942, with Harold Peary in the title role, supported by Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph and Lurene Tuttle.
With Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Leroy, Bertie, Oscar Finch, Judge Hooker, Mrs. Salisbury Twitchell, Mr. Showers.
Listen for: Gildersleeve's evasive attempts to hide the drugstore's losses from Judge Hooker, and Leroy's blunt, literal-minded honesty
First aired on February 22, 1942 on NBC.
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