The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1931–1959
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1340
- 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 20 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 1931, in original transmission order.
- 1. FMM 1931-06-01 (xx) Smackout · 1 Jun 1931
- 2. FMM 1935-12-16 (36) The Bridge Game · 16 Dec 1935
- 3. FMM 1936-08-10 (70) Old Calvalryman McGee · 10 Aug 1936
- 01
FMM 1931-06-01 (xx) Smackout
1 Jun 1931 · 19 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
FMM 1935-12-16 (36) The Bridge Game
16 Dec 1935 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
FMM 1936-08-10 (70) Old Calvalryman McGee
10 Aug 1936 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
FMM 1937-05-17 (110) McGee School of Dramatics
17 May 1937 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
FMM 1937-12-20 (141) Detective McGee
20 Dec 1937 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
FM&M 1939-02-28 #0194 Mouse in the House
28 Feb 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 February 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
FMM 1939-09-19 (214) Newspaper Column
19 Sep 1939 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 08
FMM 1940-02-06 (234) Why Is Everyone So Nice
6 Feb 1940 · 28 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “fibber-mc-gee-and-molly”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
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.
If you liked this
More to explore
Chosen by the same editors.
