 I'm Greg Bell, and we open this time with a famous episode of The Great Gildersleeve, and then we visit The Fred Allen Show. Well, The Great Gildersleeve is credited as being radio's very first spinoff, having grown out of the highly rated comedy program Thiver McGee and Molly. It launched in August of 1941, and it aired on radio into the late 1950s. Although fictional, Marjorie's wedding to fiancé Bronco Thompson was a huge event for radio listeners, so much so that Look Magazine later devoted five pages to it.