The Great Gildersleeve

No new shows but I did find some dates on some previously-undated shows using old newspaper listings:

Opera coming to town: December 7, 1954
Doye O'Dell's Dude Ranch: November 29, 1956
Gildy invents a water filter: January 3, 1957
Birdie the heiress: February 7, 1957
Bessie's vacation: December 3, 1957

thanks for the great gildersleeve dates

Another date: Leila's antique vase is from January 14, 1958.

Newspaper description: "Gildy tries out his new do-it-yourself tool kit with unfortunate consequences involving Leila Ransom and a priceless family heirloom."

One more date: "The Judge Returns From Europe" is from December 10, 1957.

Newspaper description: "Gildersleeve invites Judge Hooker to dinner but lives to regret the move. The judge, who has recently returned from a trip to Europe, taunts his host with a comparison of Continental and American food."

BobbyP thanks for the info

A large amount (over 100) of the 15 minute episodes are stored at the Library of Congress, in addition to a couple of missing half hour episodes, specifically these:

3/7/1943
10/3/1943 (part 1 only)

Getting large amounts of material from the LoC is extraordinarily expensive, and it would cost many, many thousands of dollars to get the 1950's episodes, but has anyone tried to wrangle the aforementioned 1943 episodes out?

A newly-discovered Gildersleeve! This one is from March 12, 1944: "Eve Goodwin Persuades Gildersleeve to Enter Politics."

There is a 45-second modern-era interview at the 11:40 mark. If someone could delete that, so much the better.

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I believe this is it

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Wildcat44 wrote:I believe this is it

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That's better, thanks!