The Harold Peary Show
Modernizing Doc's Office
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The Harold Peary Show stars Harold Peary as a small-town pharmacist whose good intentions and easygoing manner often lead him into comic complications. Peary was already well known to radio audiences as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, and this series gives him another genial, larger-than-life character to play.
The program is a situation comedy built around the pharmacist’s everyday life and the people who share his community. Its humor comes from familiar local concerns, personal schemes, and the misunderstandings that arise when an amiable man tries to improve things around him. The episode title points to one such comic predicament involving Doc’s office.
Peary’s warm, expressive performance gives the show its center, balancing broad comic moments with the charm of a neighborly small-town setting. It offers relaxed, character-driven radio comedy, with the pleasure of hearing a distinctive radio comedian carry a new role.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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