Great Gildersleeve – Mystery Baby is Left in Gildy’s Car. ep292, 480908

Harold Peary at the microphone, wearing a suit and hat. A black and white photograph of Harold Peary, a man in a suit and tie, smiling and looking off to the side. He is standing in front of a plain background, with his hands in his pockets. Peary was a comedian and actor, best known for his role as "The Great Gildersleeve" on radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s. The photograph conveys a sense of classic Hollywood glamour and style.
Harold Peary in his heyday as the Great Gildersleeve.

Summer is over, and Gildersleeve takes Marjorie and LeRoy shopping for school supplies. Uncle Mort gets the bill for the shopping spree, and is glad he only has two kids to raise. Any more, and he’s afraid he couldn’t afford it. Then it happens. He finds a baby that was left in his back seat. Who did it? Where did she come from? It appears that Gildy is stuck with an extra kid until the mom can be found.

Everybody falls in love with the abandoned child. As frustrated as Gildersleeve is, he still manages to do right by the baby. The Judge wants to arrange for the baby to be taken to an orphanage. Gildersleeve seems eager to send the baby away, but is resigned to keep her for a few days. Surely he won’t let that sweet little baby go to a home, will he?

Gildy heads to Peavey’s Drug store to get away, and seek some advice. For all his bluster, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve turns out to be a big softy.