What happens
Fibber McGee tries to get in shape after his wife Molly wakes him early on a bitterly cold morning. His neighbor Mrs. Abigail Uppington drops by with gossip about her canteen dancing, and McGee takes up setting-up exercises while Molly supervises. Mr. Wimple then asks his wife, Sweetie Face, to help McGee train, which alarms him. The episode is part of the Fibber McGee and Molly series, first broadcast on NBC Radio on November 24, 1942, with Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan in the cast. McGee's plans for a strict routine are soon complicated by visitors and phone calls.
The McGee home on a freezing winter morning, with the household going about its routine and a series of callers at the door and on the telephone.
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Abigail Uppington, Mr. Wimple, Sweetie Face, Wilcox, Mayor LaTrivia, Sis
Listen for: McGee's grand plans for a new exercise routine, and the escalating panic he feels at the prospect of Sweetie Face coming over.
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.