The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1931–1959
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1241
- Genre
- comedy
Original Upload - August 2020 (1,228 episodes) 1st Update - August 28, 2024 (20 recently rediscovered episodes - Ep #s: 52, 53, 54, 56, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 91-98, 115, 147) 2nd Update - March 31, 2024 (6 new episodes - Ep #s: 150, 151, 153, 154, 155 and 156.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 29 years on the air, with 25 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1956, in original transmission order.
- 1. FMM McGee And Wimple Look At A New Car · 5 Mar 1956
- 2. FMM Garbage Disposal · 6 Mar 1956
- 3. FMM The Found License Plate · 7 Mar 1956
FMM Luther Burbank's Birthday And Girl Scout Week
9 May 1959 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 May 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM An Autumn Drive
7 Feb 1959 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 February 1959. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM Poet McGee
27 Dec 1958 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 December 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM Letter Writing
21 Dec 1958 · 14 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 December 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM Fibber Builds a Hi Fi Set
20 Dec 1958 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 20 December 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM It's National Dog Week
23 Nov 1958 · 13 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 November 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM New Car Shopping
8 Nov 1958 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 November 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
FMM It's YMCA Week
26 Apr 1958 · 11 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 April 1958. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1931–1959
Other series the network carried while Fibber McGee and Molly was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Fibber McGee and Molly
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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