What happens
Fibber McGee decides he is going to write a novel and sits at home filling scratch paper while Molly looks on in amusement. Visitors including Mrs. Uppington-Smythe and a neighbor drop in and offer their own opinions about his plot and style. A woman calling herself a literary agent, Virginia Shelton-Ham, arrives and offers to sell the manuscript for him. This episode of Fibber McGee and Molly aired on NBC Radio on January 26, 1943, with Harold Peary and Bill Thompson in the lead roles.
The McGee home at 79 Wistful Vista
Characters: Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Mrs. Uppington-Smythe, Virginia Shelton-Ham, Wallace Wimple, Mrs. Wimple, Old-Timer, Doris
Listen for: Fibber's ambitious plans for his novel and the visitors who react to his writing
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.