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The Great Gildersleeve Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

39 Episodes 0 - 1956

Episode 1

Gildy Goes Broke

Tue, Sep 20, 195530 mins

After lecturing his nephew Leroy on spending all his money on the girls, Gildy proceeds to do the same thing when courting a beautiful woman.

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Episode 2

Practice What You Preach

Tue, Sep 27, 195530 mins

Gildy takes drastic action when he learns his girlfriend has been seen with other men.

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Episode 3

Circumstantial Evidence

30 mins

Gildy quits his job as Water Commissioner when he's unjustly accused.

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Episode 4

Gildy Goes Diving

Fri, Nov 18, 195530 mins

Gildy agrees to dive into a pool of water as a publicity stunt.

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Episode 5

Gildy and the Con Men

Fri, Dec 9, 195530 mins

Gildy falls victim to a couple of con artists.

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Episode 6

Gildy Stews About a Cook

Fri, Dec 9, 195526 mins

Gildy desperately searches for a fiancée so that Birdie, his housekeeper, won't break off her marriage plans in order to care for his family.

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Episode 7

Gildy, the Private Eye

Fri, Dec 16, 195530 mins

Gildy is jealous when a handsome police detective is assigned to find the burglar who broke into his friend's safe.

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Episode 8

Gildy's Juvenile Delinquent

Sun, Jan 1, 195630 mins

Leroy fools Gildy into believing that the prank he's accused of committing was actually perpetrated by another boy.

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Episode 9

Gildy, King of Hearts

Wed, Jan 5, 195530 mins

Gildy manages to become engaged to two different women at the same time.

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Episode 10

One Too Many Secretaries

Thu, Aug 25, 195526 mins

Gildy gets in hot water with his real secretary when he tells his friends that his new girlfriend is his administrative assistant.

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Episode 11

The Raffle

30 mins

Gildy tries to impress a woman with tales of his wealth and spends the night in jail as a result.

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Episode 12

Water Commissioner's Water Color

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildy doesn't like Marjorie's new boyfriend and decides to check into his background.

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Episode 13

The Nightmare

30 mins

Gildy has a realistic nightmare after reading a harrowing mystery novel.

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Episode 14

Bard of Summerfield

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildersleeve's girlfriend loves poetry, so he writes a sonnet for her. Leroy and Marjorie get a look at it before he gives it to her, decide it's so bad, they replace it with "How Do I Love Thee?". So impressed with it, his girl invites him to show more of "his" works at a formal reading.

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Episode 15

Gildy Goes Hollywood

30 mins

Gildy gets stars in his eyes when a production company rents Summerville's City Hall to use as a movie set.

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Episode 16

Golf Ball Incident

30 mins

Gildy conks a congresswoman on the head with an errant golf shot and inadvertently starts a feud between City Hall and Summerville's newspaper.

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Episode 17

Command Performance

30 mins

Gildy thinks Leroy has potential to be a professional singing cowboy.

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Episode 18

The Quiet One

30 mins

Gildy is invited to join a club that requires new members to remain silent for twenty-four hours as an initiation rite. If he speaks, he'll be refused entry, but if he doesn't he could get fired or thrown in jail.

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Episode 19

Orange Blossoms in Summerfield

30 mins

Gildy tries to escape his latest romantic entanglement by tormenting his fiancée's family.

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Episode 20

The Good Scout

30 mins

When Gildy breaks several dates because of problems at work, a busybody aunt plants seeds of suspicion in his girlfriend's mind.

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Episode 21

Gildy and the Expectant Father

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildy's courtship of a pretty nurse founders when his men's club, "The Jolly Boys" disrupts the local hospital's maternity ward.

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Episode 22

Gildy Tangles with Leroy's Teacher

30 mins

Leroy convinces Gildy to intervene when the youngster complains about getting too much homework.

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Episode 23

Gildy Loves Well, But Unwisely

30 mins

Gildy is determined to save Judge Hooker from the machinations of a scheming woman, not realizing he is the object of her desire.

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Episode 24

Protective Parent

30 mins

Gildy fears that Marjorie is preparing to elope and tries to stop her.

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Episode 25

Birdie's Golden Dream

30 mins

Gildie dismisses the dreams of his housekeeper as nonsense, therefore misses a golden opportunity.

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Episode 26

Two Girls, One Birthday

30 mins

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Episode 27

The Whistling Bandit

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Appointed Acting Police Commissioner during a crime wave, Gildy inadvertently becomes The Whistling Bandit's accomplice.

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Episode 28

Gildy's Dancing Lessons

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildy is attracted to Leroy's lovely dancing instructor.

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Episode 29

Marjorie's Apartment

30 mins

Marjorie moves into her own apartment and chaos ensues in both households.

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Episode 30

Gildy the Go-Between

30 mins

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Episode 31

Gildy Pulls the Switch

30 mins

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Episode 32

Gildy's All-American Boy

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildy encourages Leroy to build a raft and float down river from Summerville like a modern-day Huck Finn. The plan backfires when the raft is discovered broken up downstream and Leroy can't be found.

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Episode 33

Prisoner of Love

30 mins

A widow with five children refuses to allow Gildy to build an aqueduct across her property unless he agrees to marry her and adopt her children.

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Episode 34

Gildy Hires an Eager Beaver

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

Gildy's plan to impress his girlfriend by hiring a bright young man backfires when the mayor objects to the number of people on the Water Commissioner's staff.

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Episode 35

The Political Plum

30 mins

The state's retiring governor is willing to back Gildy to replace him - if Gildy marries his ugly daughter.

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Episode 36

Gildy's Efficiency Kick

Wed, Feb 4, 202630 mins

The mayor plans to appoint a committee to improve City Hall's efficiency and Gildy wants to be its chairman.

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Episode 37

Calling Dr. Bergstrom

30 mins

A pretty female doctor mistakes Gildy's lovesick swooning for a real illness and confines him to the hospital.

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Episode 38

The Deed

30 mins

Gildy is fooled by a con artist who produces a phony deed for the land Summerville's reservoir rests upon.

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Episode 39

Beauties and the Beast

30 mins

Gildy is called as a witness two of his lady friends when a beauty shop owner accidentally ruins the other woman's hair.

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