I was surprised to learn it was only on for two seasons. My mom must have liked it, we must have watched it routinely, and it became etched in my memory. I was born in the mid-fifties, and this is one of the very first shows I remember watching as a very small child. Still I wouldn't mind seeing some of those today. Later on we saw how exasperated he could get with the 4077 MASH unit. Harry Morgan was an Americanized version of Ricky Ricardo. Cara Williams was very funny as Gladys Porter, but the cycle had really run its course by the time Pete and Gladys made its debut. Desilu Productions had split the way Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had split, but creators Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf who wrote I Love Lucy and December Bride created another kookie wife to get into constant trouble to the annoyance of her harried husband. And we finally got to meet Gladys who was played by Cara Williams. Anyway the Pete and Gladys show opened the year after December Bride shut down with Peter Porter moving away from the neighborhood where he lived next to Dean Miller, Frances Rafferty and Spring Byington. She was the distaff equivalent of Phyllis Diller's never seen husband, Fang.
On December Bride where Morgan was a regular, we never got to see Gladys, all we knew about her is Morgan's regular one liners about her.
Pete and Gladys gave the American public finally a look at just what Harry Morgan had been complaining about lo these past five years.
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