Honest Harold


(3.2 stars; 4 reviews)

Old Time Radio Programs. THE HAROLD PEARY SHOW/HONEST HAROLD, THE HOMEMAKER Series is complete in 38 shows including audition.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

Honest Harold 50-08-23 Audition 32:32
Honest Harold 50-09-17 Harold Loses His Job 29:30
Honest Harold 50-09-24 Renaming Boomer Park 29:30
Honest Harold 50-10-04 Shark Repellent 29:30
Honest Harold 50-10-11 The Chanteuse 29:30
Honest Harold 50-10-18 The Runaway Boy 29:23
Honest Harold 50-10-25 Campaign Speech 29:29
Honest Harold 50-11-01 Election Plans 29:30
Honest Harold 50-11-08 Cousin Raymond Visits 29:30
Honest Harold 50-11-15 Getting a Job 29:30
Honest Harold 50-11-22 Thanksgiving Play 29:30
Honest Harold 50-12-06 The Hummer 29:30
Honest Harold 50-12-13 Raymond and Gloria 29:30
Honest Harold 50-12-20 Childrens Christmas Party 29:30
Honest Harold 50-12-27 New Years Dance 29:30
Honest Harold 51-01-03 Warbleware Party 29:30
Honest Harold 51-01-10 Lost Sponsor 29:30
Honest Harold 51-01-17 Going to New York 29:30
Honest Harold 51-01-24 Engaged Twice 29:30
Honest Harold 51-01-31 Civic Achievement Award 29:30
Honest Harold 51-02-07 Mothers Suitor 29:30
Honest Harold 51-02-14 Mistaken Valentines 29:30
Honest Harold 51-02-21 Florabelle Returns 29:30
Honest Harold 51-02-28 Willis Cant Pass the Physical 29:30
Honest Harold 51-03-07 Red Cross Drive 29:30
Honest Harold 51-03-14 Income Tax 29:30
Honest Harold 51-03-21 Cousin Marvin 29:30
Honest Harold 51-03-28 First Day of School 29:30
Honest Harold 51-04-04 Modernizing Docs Office 29:30
Honest Harold 51-04-18 Cleaning the Cellar 29:30
Honest Harold 51-04-25 Circus Day 29:30
Honest Harold 51-05-02 Marvins Gang 29:30
Honest Harold 51-05-09 Vying for Class 29:30
Honest Harold 51-05-16 Florabelles New Lover 29:30
Honest Harold 51-05-23 Party Invitation 29:30
Honest Harold 51-05-30 Marshall for a Day 29:30
Honest Harold 51-06-06 Peabodys Sister Takes Over 29:30
Honest Harold 51-06-13 Marvin Decides to Stay 29:30

Reviews

Not One or the Other


(3 stars)

As others have pointed out, the early episodes are fun to listen to, but then it somewhere took a turn for a while. I also noticed that there seemed to be quite a few similarities to stories in the "Jack Benny Program," similarities that "The Great Gildersleeve" didn't have. Harold Peary in this now has a relic of a car, like Benny's antique Maxwell, complete with exaggerated engine sputtering. In one Harold episode he's scared of "the Hummer" - a parody of "The Whistler" that Benny did as "The Fiddler." In another Harold has to deal with a male singing group that keeps interrupting him, much like Benny's Sportsman Quartet. Even his Cousin Raymond comes across as something of a Phil Harris type, using slang and boasting all the time. Granted, other shows used similar themes as well, but these are pretty obvious. Don't know if this had anything to do with the move to CBS, maybe using the same writers. It'll be interesting to listen top the later episodes.

Writers didn't do the show justice and so ends Peary's radio days


(2 stars)

After discovering the Great Gildersleeve programs and listening to nearly every show that was made including the Willard Waterman era to find this show with Harold Peary was exciting (at first). The audition show was pretty good but then it went downhill from there until the following spring where they changed some things that made it even more like the old Gildersleeve show but since the original GG was still successful with W. Waterman on NBC there was no reason for this weak imitation to keep going on CBS. Kraft Co. and bad writing on this show finished off radio for Harold Peary and forced him into a bad TV show soon after.

Honest Harold


(4 stars)

Harold Peary role as Honest Harold is somewhat of a continuation of his Gildersleeve role. Same laugh and situations. His fellow actors' roles bear a remarkable resemblance to other Gildersleeve characters. Doc Yak yak (Judge Hooker)and Pete the Marshall (Mr Peavey) His secretary is the same actress (His real life wife) as on GG. Non the less the plots are entertaining and I recommend it.


(4 stars)

I really enjoyed Harold Peary as Honest Harold. It is similar to The Great Gildersleeve. As I understand it, Harold Peary got a lot of requests to sing more but he wasn’t allowed to do this on Gildersleeve.He left Gildersleeve and became Honest Harold where he often broke into song.