This CBS spin-off from the sitcom December Bridestarred Harry Morgan and Cara Williams as Pete Porter and his wife, Gladys, and aired at 8.00 pm on Monday nights.
Peter Porter, an insurance salesman for the Springer, Slocum and KleverInsurance Company in Los Angeles, and Gladys Hooper, a scatterbrained secretary, fell in love, eloped and married nine years earlier in the small town of Colbyville. They later set up house at 36 Bleecker Street in Westwood, California.
Pete, who spent his military career as a clerk in a PX during World War II, told Gladys he was a hero and that he single-handedly captured a Japanese patrol.
Pete put up with all of Gladys’s harebrained antics, while Gladys was naturally curious about everything – and pursuing that curiosity always got her into trouble.
Janet Colton (Shirley Mitchell) was her friend, neighbour and cohort in misadventure. Gladys was the entertainment chair of the Junior Matron’s League of the Children’s Hospital and also a member of the Westwood Bowling League with Janet and Hilda Crocker (Verna Felton).
Other characters included Gladys’s father, Henry Hooper (Ernest Truex); her nephew, Bruce (Bill Hinnant); her cousin, Helen Franklin (Sue Randall), Pete’s Uncle Paul (Gale Gordon) who believed Gladys was an idiot; Janet’s husband, George Colton (Peter Leeds); Pete’s boss, Barry Slocum (Barry Kelly) and Barry’s wife, Laura Slocum (Helen Kleeb).
Pete Porter
Harry Morgan
Gladys Porter
Cara Williams Hilda Crocker
Verna Felton Janet Colton
Shirley Mitchell Uncle Paul Barton
Gale Gordon Barry Slocum
Barry Kelly Laura Slocum
Helen Kleeb Peggy Briggs
Mina Kolb Ernie Briggs
Joe Mantell Howie
Alvy Moore Alice, Howie’s wife
Barbara Stuart George Colton
Peter Leeds Pops (Henry Hooper)
Ernest Truex Bruce Carter
Bill Hinnant Nancy
Frances Rafferty Helen Franklin
Sue Randall Jerry Franklin
Carleton Carpenter Newton Norwood
Cliff Norton
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Pete, who spent his military career as a clerk in a PX during World War II, told Gladys he was a hero and that he single-handedly captured a Japanese patrol.
