Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Honest Harold The Happy Homemaker "Election Plans" (11-01-50)

Election Plans (Aired November 1, 1950)


Old-time radio fans have, of course, long been aware that actor-singer Harold Peary became immortalized as radio's Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve on both Fibber McGee & Molly (from 1939-41) and his own starring spin-off series, The Great Gildersleeve, beginning in 1941. Gildersleeve continued on radio until 1957—but Hal left the show at the end of the 1949-50 season to be replaced by sound-a-like Willard Waterman. Peary played “Honest” Harold Hemp, “popular radio entertainer of Melrose Springs”; an eligible bachelor who lived with his widowed mother Emily (Kathryn Card and later Jane Morgan) and nephew Lero…I mean, Marvin (Sammy Ogg, Stuffy Singer), doing a homemaker’s program on the town’s local radio station.
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