Old Time Radio Show of the Week

 Fibber McGee and Molly
November 5th 1946
It's the 60th Anniversary of Johnsons Wax, so Fibber and Molly visit the sponsor. The show originates from Racine, Wisconsin.

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1944

"Heavenly Days"

starring Fibber McGee and Molly

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Johnson Wax Program starring Fibber McGee and Molly

June 20th 1944

"Getting Ready for the Cattle Ranch"

The McGees plan to spend the summer managing Uncle Sycamore's cattle ranch.

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

Lux Radio Theater 

"Mama Loves Papa"

April 8th 1940

A simple chap becomes Parks Commissioner and then his trouble begins. 

starring Fibber McGee and Molly 

(Jim and Marian Jordan)

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

Fibber McGee and Molly

March 7th 1939

McGee opens a new hamburger joint

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Johnson Wax Program 

starring Fibber McGee and Molly

"Aunt Sarah's Picture"

May 2nd 1944

Golden Age of Radio Christmas - Fibber McGee and Molly

Today we have 5 classic episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas shows from the War Years

We start off with the first episode after the Pearl Harbor attack that led to the US entry into WWII.  This is a good and sometimes poignant show with comments on the events that fateful December

These shows take us through the end of the war and back to peacetime as the country is trying to resume normal non wartime activities.

The Great Radio Comedians - PBS

This PBS special from 1972 looks at the great radio comedians including Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Fibber McGee and Molly and more.
Enjoy this tremendous show with interviews with George Burns, Jim Jordan (Fibber McGee), Jack Benny and the cast of Allen's Alley all done just a few years before we would see most of the pass.

The Golden Age of Radio - Fibber McGee and Molly (1947-48 Season)

Tonight's look at the Golden Age of Radio is the NBC cornerstone "Fibber McGee and Molly".

Fibber aired Tuesday nights at 930pm and was the cornerstone of NBC's most popular night or radio.  The evening began with "Amos N Andy" at 9pm (tied for #6 in the season ratings), then "Fibber McGee and Molly" at 930 (#2), followed at 10pm by "The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope" (tied at #6) and the night closed out at 1030 with "The Raleigh Cigarette Program starring Red Skelton" (#10).

"Fibber McGee and Molly" starred Jim and Marion Jordan as Fibber and Molly and with a top notch cast that at times included Harold Peary as  The Great Gildersleeve, Gale Gordon as Mayor Latrivia and Foggy Williams the local weatherman.  Also was the great voice man Bill Thompson who was The Old Timer, Wallace Wimple (the inspiration for cartoon's Droopy Dog), Arthur Q Bryan as Fibber's nemesis Doc Gamble (and the original voice of Elmer Fudd).  These and many many other voices made Fibber McGee and Molly second only to Jack Benny (in my opinion) as the greatest comedy of the golden age of radio.

From October 21st 1947
"Late Car Payment"