I'm halfway through this series and there are no nits of any significance to report. Gildersleeve is a bachelor that plays the field and you need a scorecard to keep up with his dates, but the writers do keep score and to not trod on their continuity. If a recurring character disappears for a time, when they return, there are sound reasons for it.

One thing that annoys me is the character of Mr. Peavy. Think "The Little Man from the Draft Board" in the Daffy Duck cartoon Draftee Daffy because in 99% of his appearances, he gets in his signature line: "Well now I wouldn't say that". But that doesn't bother me like every time the pharmacy store owner is introduced in every program with his first line "What can I do for you, Mr. Gildersleeve?". This is 99% accompanied by audience laughter. Why? Sure Peavy's Droopy Dog-type voice can be deemed funny, otherwise what's funny about that line? When in its original run every week, when you can depend on him saying both those lines, when does a person tire of that line and are able to predict the precise moment he'll say "Well now I wouldn't say that"? The laughter to "What can I do for you, Mr. Gildersleeve?", whether live or canned, usually in duration of a 1-second chuckle or a 2-seconds outburst, is unnecessary. It's like Fonzie getting applause every time he enters a scene. It's hard to believe a radio program capitalized on this technique of overplaying audience reactions that appears more scripted than spontaneous.

Peavy can have a witty, well-timed line from time to time. Otherwise, he's becomes the show's Achilles heel. This is a sitcom and all the character's voices can wear you out from Birdie the housekeeper's yelling, to Gildy's nephew, to Peavy and The Judge. About the only normal voices you hear are Gildy's girl friends. But the only non-irritating character voice is Floyd the barber (yes, before Andy Griffith's Floyd) played by Arthur Q. Bryan of "Elmer Fudd" fame. Except with "Floyd", Bryan uses his normal speaking voice instead of his "Elmer" voice.

I should point out that Walter Tetley (who portrays Leroy) is using his normal voice. Apparently he had some sort of hormone defect which caused his voice to remain so high-pitched. So he specialized in doing boy characters on radio (most notably Julius on the Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show) and was also Sherman in the Peabody shorts on Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Not to mention there were two actors who played "Gildersleeve"

Harold Peary and

Willard Waterman