Cutting Old Suit for Molly: Fibber McGee and Molly (January 5, 1943)

“Cutting Old Suit for Molly” is an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 5, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Fibber McGee and Molly is a comedy series, and this episode from January 5, 1943 on NBC Radio, starring Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan. At home after dinner, Fibber McGee finds a box of cigars in the mailbox sent by a cousin Waldorf whom neither of them has ever heard of. Molly then asks Fibber about an old blue pinstripe suit in the hall closet, and he suggests she have it cut down for herself. Fibber and Molly visit the tailor Threadbaum, whose handling of the job leads to a bill and some questions about the work. Abigail, a neighbor, also comes by with a request about ice skates.

The McGee home, a neighborhood tailor shop, and the streets of a small town

Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly, Threadbaum, Abigail, Harlow Wilcox, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Tolliver, Wallace Wimple

Listen for: Fibber's claims about the cousin Waldorf cigars and the tailor's bill for remaking the pinstripe suit

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.