Bad Luck With Mirrors: Fibber McGee and Molly (October 19, 1943)

“Bad Luck With Mirrors” is an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 19, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Fibber McGee is overjoyed that seven years of bad luck, which he attributes to breaking a mirror on October 19, 1936, are finally over, and he celebrates with his wife Molly. Their happiness is short-lived when Molly asks him to carry the mirror across town to be resilvered. Fibber reluctantly sets out with the mirror, and an assortment of neighbors and acquaintances crosses his path, including Doc Gamble and Uncle Dennis, while his foot becomes stuck in a streetcar track. The episode is a 1943 broadcast of the Fibber McGee and Molly series, which aired on NBC Radio, with Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan in the lead roles.

McGee household and the streets of a town, including a mirror shop at 14th and Oak

Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Alice Darling, Doc Gamble, Uncle Dennis, Junior Wilcox

Listen for: Fibber's dramatic reaction to the mirror, and the banter with Doc Gamble and Uncle Dennis

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.