What happens
Fibber McGee and Molly host Boomer, who asks them to keep a suitcase for a day or so, claiming it holds valuables from an elderly aunt. Molly is reluctant to pry, but McGee is curious, and the two end up wondering whether the case is hiding something. Meanwhile Abigail, a neighbor, arrives to ask about the family's horse, Lillian, and a dispute over the horse's health and temperament takes up much of the household's attention. The episode is a 1942 installment of the NBC radio series Fibber McGee and Molly, first broadcast on March 3, 1942, with Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan in the cast.
The McGee home in Wistful Vista, where the family keeps a horse named Lillian in the garage.
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Boomer, Abigail, Mr. Wilcox, Mayor LaTrivia, Mrs. Stupp
Listen for: Listen for the McGees debating whether to open Boomer's suitcase, and for Boomer's escalating claims against the family.
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.