What happens
Fibber McGee and Molly follows Old Timer, a nervous visitor who arrives at the McGee house convinced that the police and the FBI are chasing him. Fibber and Molly hide him from the pursuers and press him to explain what he has done. The series aired on NBC Radio, and this episode first aired on October 27, 1942, with Harold Peary, Bill Thompson, Gale Gordon and Arthur Q. Bryan in the lead cast. Old Timer keeps starting his confession and being interrupted, while a parade of neighbors and visitors drops in on the household.
The McGee house in Wistful Vista, where Old Timer is hiding from the authorities
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Old Timer, Mrs. Uppington, Mayor LaTrivia, Wallace Wimple, Sis, Billy Mills
Listen for: Old Timer's repeated attempts to confess and the interruptions that keep delaying his story
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.