Cleaning Doc Gambles House: Fibber McGee and Molly (November 2, 1943)

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“Cleaning Doc Gambles House” is an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 2, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Fibber McGee and Molly visit their friend Doctor Gamble's house after he mentions that it is overrun with ants and he is too tired to deal with them. Thinking to help, they let themselves in and start cleaning, but their efforts quickly become a comedy of mishaps. Molly tries to fix the window screen, the refrigerator is jostled out of order, and furniture is broken while they work. Mrs. Wilcox and a neighborhood girl arrive, and the situation grows more confused. This episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, which aired on NBC Radio on November 2, 1943, features Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan.

Doctor Gamble's house, and the McGee home in a small town

Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Doctor Gamble, Mr. Wilcox, Alice Darling, Uncle Dennis

Listen for: The escalating mishaps as the McGees try to clean Doctor Gamble's house, and the ant poison mix-up

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.