Fun With Fibber | Those Were The Days | Saturday, June 30th 1979

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FUN WITH FIBBER

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (9-13-49)
The first show of the new season is also the
15th anniversary broadcast for the Squire of
Wistful Vista and his wife. NBC uses the
occasion to salute the McGees and present
an hour-long-special promoting the new broad-
cast season. Regulars Gale Gordon (as Mayor
LaTrivia), Bill Thompson (as Wallace Wimpole
and the Old Timer), and the King’s Men are
joined by special guests Dinah Shore, Robert
Young, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Hal Peary
as The Great Gildersleeve, Irene Dunne, Dennis
Day, William Bendix, and bob Hope. NBC,
Johnson’s Wax. (11;20; 6:35; 11:00; 9:20;
10:35; 9:25)

PHILCO RADIO TIME (4-14-48) Bing Crosby
stars with guests Jim and Marion Jordan as
Fibber McGee and Molly. Fibber claims he has
“made Bing what he is today” and invites
Crosby to sing at the Elk’s Club. Bing, Fibber
and Molly sing “You Tell Me Your Dream.”
ABC, Philco. (8:52; 7:42; 13:20)

FIBBER MC GEE, MOLLY AND THE SUPER-
HETRODYNE (1950s) Fibber and Molly
tune in an old radio to listen to vintage sounds
from NBC’s past. Sounds and voices from
not-so-long-ago: Coon-Sanders Orchestra; Amos
‘n’ Andy; Laurence Tibbett; Ruth Etting;
Joe Penner and Rudy Vallee; Ben Bernie;
Eddie Cantor; W. C. Fields, Edgar Bergen,
Charlie McCarthy; Jessica Dragonetet; Bing
Crosby and Bob Burns; Jimmy Durante; Bob
Hope, Skinnay Ennis, Jerry Colonna; Easy
Aces; Tallulah Bankhead and Margaret Truman;
Al Jolson and Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom;
Groucho Marx; Major Bowes. NBC, Sustaining.
(14:55; 16:15; 14:40; 15:48)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (4-5-49)
Jim and Marion Jordan star with Gale Gordon,
Bill Thompson, Arthur Q. Brian (as Doc
Gamble), Dick LeGrand (as Ole), Harlow
Wilcox, the King’s Men and Billy Mills and the
Orchestra. Fibber vows to “catch up” on all
the good deeds he should have done. NBC,
Johnson’s Wax. (10:15; 10:20; 8:00)