What happens
Fibber McGee and Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve have been locked in a long checker game at the McGee house, and Molly wants it ended. Fibber takes a one-day job running Mr. Plummer's hardware store while Plummer is out of town, and Molly joins him at the counter. Their efforts to sell and work in the shop lead to a string of mishaps with customers, including a request for a bathtub installation. The episode is the Fibber McGee and Molly comedy from May 21, 1940, on NBC Radio, with Jim and Marian Jordan in the title roles, Bill Thompson, Harold Peary and Gale Gordon.
The McGee house, then Mr. Plummer's hardware store
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, Mr. Plummer, Mrs. Uppington
Listen for: Fibber's rambling alliterative speech about his past as a hardware salesman, and his mix-ups with customers in the store
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.