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Comedy Fiction
Comedy Fiction
The Harold Peary Show.
Hear Harold Peary in the classic radio comedy also known as Honest Harold. Explore a small-town broadcaster’s comic world in this Heritage Radio Vault collection. Browse the available episodes and choose your next classic radio listen.
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The Harold Peary Show: Programme Guide.
Honest Harold’s radio work does not protect him from domestic and social confusion. The Harold Peary Show gives its leading performer another small-community comedy after his departure from Gildersleeve.
Broadcast history.
The CBS production, also called Honest Harold the Homemaker, aired in 1950–1951. It is a separate programme from The Great Gildersleeve, which continued with Willard Waterman.
Cast and creative team.
Peary plays Harold Hemp. Norman Macdonnell directs, Bob LeMond announces and Jack Meakin supplies music. Writers include Gene Stone, Jack Robinson and Bill Danch, with a changing supporting company around Harold.
Where to begin.
Marvin Is Invited to a Party · Marvin Decides to Stay with Harold
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
The familiar laugh and vocal manner can make the two characters sound related, but shared performance style is not proof that the plots belong to the same fictional household.
Listening appeal.
Try Marvin Is Invited to a Party or Marvin Decides to Stay with Harold. Related family matters may continue between editions, so listen to the opening for the immediate situation.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 37 public recordings. The thirty-seven records are selected editions from the short CBS production. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
37 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
37 episodes available.
Questions about The Harold Peary Show.
Is this simply Gildersleeve under another title?
It is a separate character and programme.
Does Peary’s familiar voice identify the same fictional family?
The actor carries his style into a different role.
