After lecturing his nephew Leroy on spending all his money on the girls, Gildy proceeds to do the same thing when courting a beautiful woman.
When Gildy's girlfriend, Lois, starts wandering into other men's arms, Gildy realizes that something must be done.
Gildy washes his hands of the Water Department when he is unjustly accused with circumstantial evidence.
When Gildy discovers that he is virtually unknown in Summerfield he goes fter publicity and makes a real splash-in 40 feet of water.
Gildy falls victim to a couple of con artists.
Gildy desperately searches for a fiancée so that Birdie, his housekeeper, won't break off her marriage plans in order to care for his family.
Gildy is jealous when a handsome police detective is assigned to find the burglar who broke into his friend's safe.
Leroy fools Gildy into believing that the prank he's accused of committing was actually perpetrated by another boy.
Gildy gets in hot water with his real secretary when he tells his friends that his new girlfriend is his administrative assistant.
Gildy doesn't like Marjorie's new boyfriend and decides to check into his background.
Gildy tries to impress a woman with his poetry composition skills and accidentally plagiarizes a famous poem.
Gildy gets stars in his eyes when a production company rents Summerville's City Hall to use as a movie set.
Gildy conks a congresswoman on the head with an errant golf shot and inadvertently starts a feud between City Hall and Summerville's newspaper.
Gildy's courtship of a pretty nurse founders when his men's club, "The Jolly Boys" disrupts the local hospital's maternity ward.
Appointed Acting Police Commissioner during a crime wave, Gildy inadvertently becomes The Whistling Bandit's accomplice.
Gildy is attracted to Leroy's lovely dancing instructor.
Gildersleeve talks Leroy and Bruce out of constructing a rocket in the back yard and into building a raft like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. When the boys disappear, Gildy panics and assumes they're lost on the river. He launches a search party while the boys, bored with the raft, head for the movie theater.