The Great Gildersleeve

- Season 1

(1955)

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.

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

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

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

Gildy falls victim to a couple of con artists.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gildy tries to impress a woman with his poetry composition skills and accidentally plagiarizes a famous poem.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gildy is attracted to Leroy's lovely dancing instructor.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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