Pete and Gladys

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Pete and Gladys
Harry Morgan and Cara Williams from Pete and Gladys (1960)
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Parke Levy
Written by	Alan Lipscott Bob Fisher Larry Rhine Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf Devery Freeman
Directed by	Leslie Goodwins James V. Kern Sidney Lanfield
Starring	Harry Morgan Cara Williams
Theme music composer	Parke Levy Lee Wainer
Ending theme	Wilbur Hatch
Composers	Jerry Goldsmith Wilbur Hatch Lucien Moraweck Carl Brandt
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	72
Production
Executive producer	Parke Levy (1961–1962)
Producers	Parke Levy (1960–1961) Devery Freeman (1961–1962)
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	El Camino Productions CBS Television Network
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 18, 1960 (1960-09-18) – September 10, 1962 (1962-09-10)
Related
December Bride

Pete and Gladys is an American television sitcom starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS every Monday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.

One of CBS television's most popular and highly rated sitcoms of the 1950s, December Bride, starred Spring Byington and co-starred Harry Morgan as next-door neighbor Pete Porter. Pete spent most of his time complaining about his scatterbrained wife Gladys, who was unseen to viewers. In this spin-off series, Gladys emerges as the gorgeous redhaired comedienne Cara Williams. Pete is an insurance salesman, and the happy couple resides in Westwood, California.

Besides leading-man Peter, another carryover from December Bride during the first season was the character of Hilda Crocker (Verna Felton), a close equivalent of I Love Lucy's Ethel Mertz; she appeared in 23 episodes. Frances Rafferty, another December Bride veteran, appeared in seven episodes of Pete and Gladys as Nancy (a different character from her role in the original series). Barbara Stuart had a recurring first-season role as Gladys' friend Alice, and Ernest Truex appeared in six episodes as Gladys' widowed father, "Pop".^[1]

Pete and Gladys never made it into the Nielsen ratings Top 30 during the course of its prime time run. After it ceased production, it was repeated as part of the CBS weekday-morning line up. It aired at 11:30 a.m. EST for two years from October 1, 1962 to October 2, 1964.

Williams was nominated for a 1962 Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by a Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She lost to veteran Shirley Booth of NBC's Hazel.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pete and Gladys.

• Pete and Gladys at IMDb
• theme song on YouTube