Black Market Meat: Fibber McGee and Molly (April 27, 1943)

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“Black Market Meat” is an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 27, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Fibber McGee and Molly follows Fibber McGee as he gets involved with a back-alley meat seller named Eddie, after Abigail Upington asks him for help getting meat for a dinner for naval officers. Fibber sends her to the seller, but she refuses to deal in the black market. Fibber is embarrassed when Molly and their neighbors learn of his tip. Fibber McGee and Molly is a radio comedy from NBC Radio, first broadcast on April 27, 1943. Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan are among the cast.

Wistful Vista, a small town, including an alley behind a pool hall on 14th Street and the McGee home

Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Abigail Upington, Eddie, Doc Gamble, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Whipple, Sweetie Face

Listen for: Fibber's exchanges with Abigail Upington and the mix-up over the package in the refrigerator

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.