What happens
Fibber McGee and Molly run a busy office in Wistful Vista, where Fibber has just taken on the role of western representative for the AJB Corporation. He handles a stream of phone orders for colored goods while trying to keep a typewriter salesman waiting and to look important. Molly is pulled into the chaos as a makeshift secretary, and the office fills with visitors, including Doc Gamble and a Harlow Wilcox stand-in. The episode is a Fibber McGee and Molly broadcast from NBC Radio, first aired on January 4, 1944, with Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan in the cast. The story is still developing when the transcript ends, with a police officer now asking what Fibber is selling.
The McGees' office at 79 Wistful Vista, in the town of Wistful Vista
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Doc Gamble, Alice, Harry Boncell, Dinwitty, Conley
Listen for: Fibber's phone orders and his confusion over the order numbers, Molly's attempt at secretarial work, and the escalating arguments with Doc Gamble.
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.