# Fibber McGee and Molly - "Doc's Secret Trip" (Old Time Radio, 1954)

An episode of [Fibber McGee and Molly | Old Time Radio](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1858238532), 21 Aug 2026, 15 min.

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Fibber McGee and Molly presents “Doc’s Secret Trip,” originally broadcast December 2, 1954. This archival recording is identified as episode 1045; the episode is also commonly cataloged under the fuller title “Doc’s Secret Hunting Trip.” Doc Gamble is making quiet plans of his own, but Fibber McGee’s involvement threatens to complicate everything. Jim and Marian Jordan star as Fibber and Molly, in a script by Phil Leslie directed by Max Hutto. Fibber McGee and Molly presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience. Chapters: 00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction 00:37 Original Broadcast 15:05 Closing Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Doc Gamble is quietly arranging an elopement, and Fiber McGhee
[0:03] Speaker 1: finds himself drawn into those secret plans. From December two,
[0:08] Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, it is Fiber McGhee and Molly in
[0:12] Speaker 1: Doc's Secret Trip, Episode one, thy forty five. Jim and
[0:17] Speaker 1: Marion Jordan are Fibber and Molly, with Robert Easton and
[0:20] Speaker 1: Kate McKenna in the cast. Phil Leslie wrote the script
[0:23] Speaker 1: and Max Hutto directed. What begins as Doc's private business
[0:28] Speaker 1: soon has Fibber's fingerprints all over it, the familiar formula
[0:32] Speaker 1: for a Wistful Vista complication, and now our story begins.
[0:37] Speaker 2: It's time for Fiber McGhee and Molly. Sundays through Thursdays.
[0:49] Speaker 2: MBC brings you Fibber McGhee and Molly transcribe. The show
[0:53] Speaker 2: is written by Phil Leslie and Ralph Goodman and directed
[0:56] Speaker 2: by Max Huttter. We'll get into it Tonight's Merry Adventure
[1:12] Speaker 2: in a minute, but first let's peek into the living
[1:15] Speaker 2: room at seventy nine.
[1:16] Speaker 3: Wistful Vista, traveling, gardening, painting pictures, hobby shop.
[1:19] Speaker 4: What are you doing with the gee? I'm making a list
[1:21] Speaker 4: of things folks like to do when they retire.
[1:23] Speaker 5: Well, add sitting to that list, will you? That's what
[1:26] Speaker 5: you like to do?
[1:27] Speaker 4: Anyway?
[1:28] Speaker 5: Who's retiring?
[1:29] Speaker 4: Well not me, not yet.
[1:30] Speaker 3: But retirement is something that every man Jack of us
[1:32] Speaker 3: thinks about from time to time.
[1:34] Speaker 5: Every woman Jill of us too. McGee, Well, go ahead, now,
[1:37] Speaker 5: there's more to retiring than just thinking about it.
[1:39] Speaker 4: Uh huh. Retirement that is really care free.
[1:41] Speaker 3: Retirement has to be planned for, and the best way
[1:44] Speaker 3: to start is with a prudential retirement income plan.
[1:47] Speaker 5: And the best time to start is right now, while
[1:49] Speaker 5: you're earning money. With a prudential retirement income plan, you
[1:53] Speaker 5: can be sure of a monthly income when you reach
[1:55] Speaker 5: the age you want to retire at.
[1:57] Speaker 3: And you'll get this regular income money coming in every
[1:59] Speaker 3: month for just as long as you'll live.
[2:02] Speaker 4: Mommy, did you want to say something?
[2:03] Speaker 5: Yes, yes I did. Folks, why don't you call your
[2:07] Speaker 5: prudential agent. He'll tell you how you can see all
[2:10] Speaker 5: your retirement dreams come true with a prudential retirement income plan.
[2:24] Speaker 2: Most of doctor Gamble's friends know about his romance, and
[2:28] Speaker 2: most of his friends are hopefully keeping their eye on it.
[2:31] Speaker 2: But even his mother was a little unprepared yesterday when
[2:34] Speaker 2: she overheard the doctor on the phone making some plans
[2:37] Speaker 2: like this.
[2:38] Speaker 6: Yeah, look, Glover, I've got the license and the train
[2:41] Speaker 6: tickets and we're all set. Yeah, I'll meet you at
[2:45] Speaker 6: the station at six am, like we planned. I'll break
[2:48] Speaker 6: it to mother when we get home Sunday night. Of course,
[2:52] Speaker 6: I've already packed my bag, Lover, I'll.
[2:54] Speaker 7: Be there naturally.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Missus Gamble was a little upset about her son slipping
[2:59] Speaker 2: away like this, so she hurried over to discuss it
[3:01] Speaker 2: with the McGee's. They made plans. And it's now a
[3:06] Speaker 2: quarter to six am today at seventy nine.
[3:08] Speaker 7: Whistle vista and listen.
[3:11] Speaker 5: For such a all.
[3:15] Speaker 4: Right, all right, call on everybody. Calm down. What's that rise?
[3:19] Speaker 4: You guys? You're sprung it all over the rock.
[3:21] Speaker 5: Get those whole shoes off of my coffee table. Mark
[3:24] Speaker 5: Toops is at your Coball on that piano.
[3:26] Speaker 4: Please fall it await them and not pipe on, will you?
[3:29] Speaker 3: Will you guys in the band, get your instruments out
[3:31] Speaker 3: of here and load them on the bus.
[3:32] Speaker 4: It's quarter to six. We'll be leaving here any minute now.
[3:35] Speaker 4: I'm sure it's get a Hamburg and it's come on.
[3:37] Speaker 3: Fell it cheap whist Please, If we're going to get
[3:39] Speaker 3: organized to give doctor sent off, we gotta have silin.
[3:42] Speaker 4: Why, well that's better. Why couldn't you guys have done
[3:48] Speaker 4: that for me? Why did Molly get on with it?
[3:50] Speaker 5: McGee? This big send off for the doctor and his
[3:52] Speaker 5: bride was your idea. Now, let's see if you can
[3:54] Speaker 5: get a darganize.
[3:55] Speaker 4: Well, I didn't expect it.
[3:56] Speaker 5: When you barge in on Doctor Gamba's elopement with this
[3:58] Speaker 5: choice little group. He'll probably just kill you, stone cold
[4:01] Speaker 5: dead right there in the railroad station if his mother
[4:04] Speaker 5: doesn't do it first.
[4:05] Speaker 3: Well, gee, Wizard, isn't my fault If a lot of
[4:07] Speaker 3: extra people I hadn't counted on showed up. All I
[4:10] Speaker 3: wanted was a few of Doc's friends like Wimp and
[4:12] Speaker 3: Less more Tubes and the boys in the Elks band
[4:14] Speaker 3: where these other people came from.
[4:16] Speaker 8: All I'm afraid that was my fault, mister McGhee.
[4:19] Speaker 4: What do you mean, whimp?
[4:20] Speaker 7: Well, I was.
[4:21] Speaker 8: In Kramer's in the phone booth when you told me
[4:23] Speaker 8: the news and we had a bad connection.
[4:25] Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.
[4:26] Speaker 8: How proud of the drug stories are? Before Christmas and well,
[4:29] Speaker 8: I guess I shouldn't have yelled. What's that, mister McGhee.
[4:33] Speaker 8: You say, doctor Gamble is eloping and we'll all meet
[4:35] Speaker 8: at your house tomorrow at five thirty eight. Oh, I
[4:39] Speaker 8: feel just terrible.
[4:40] Speaker 5: Oh that's all right, mister wampballs, Sure that's probably not well.
[4:44] Speaker 5: Please have folks. We can't all crowd in this little
[4:47] Speaker 5: living but some of your mine's stepping outside on the port.
[4:50] Speaker 4: That's right.
[4:50] Speaker 3: We're leaving in a minute anyway, as soon as missus
[4:52] Speaker 3: Gamble gets here. Now here's the plan. We're all gonna
[4:55] Speaker 3: leave here at the same time. See the vand goes
[4:57] Speaker 3: in the bus. The rest of us get in our
[4:59] Speaker 3: cars and drive. I'm down to the station together. I'll
[5:01] Speaker 3: take the lead.
[5:02] Speaker 9: Do that.
[5:03] Speaker 4: McGee and Molly, you pass around the bags.
[5:05] Speaker 5: Rice, okay, Now, everybody take a pocket.
[5:08] Speaker 3: Full whip you check all the old shoes they're gonna throw,
[5:11] Speaker 3: right he see that nobody left the taps on them,
[5:13] Speaker 3: and make sure there aren't any nails sticking up.
[5:25] Speaker 7: There's more fun with the McGhee shortly.
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[6:39] Speaker 4: Here she comes.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Now, that's Missus Gamble driving up out front.
[6:42] Speaker 5: Now we better get everybody out the back way.
[6:44] Speaker 3: Begin, Yeah, all right, everybody out the backwaying into your car.
[6:47] Speaker 3: Missus Gamble thinks they're just me and Molly coming along.
[6:50] Speaker 3: It'll be better if she doesn't see all you guys.
[6:52] Speaker 5: Now, everybody out this way, hurry, come on, before she
[6:55] Speaker 5: gets in here.
[6:56] Speaker 3: The bus is back around the corner. Let's let's tell
[6:58] Speaker 3: the driver to keep his eye on me. I'll throw
[7:00] Speaker 3: my cigar out the window when I go by.
[7:02] Speaker 4: That'll be the sigmal.
[7:02] Speaker 5: You better make get your handkerchief and they won't be
[7:04] Speaker 5: able to play their instruments for an hour.
[7:07] Speaker 4: Will you hurry him up? Molly, Ah, there goes a
[7:09] Speaker 4: good kid.
[7:10] Speaker 3: She's just as excited about giving doctor Miss cuddleson this
[7:13] Speaker 3: big send off as I am. She Oh, that's her.
[7:16] Speaker 3: Now we'll get this show on the road. Good morning,
[7:20] Speaker 3: missus Gamble.
[7:21] Speaker 12: I got here just as fast as I could, mister McGee.
[7:23] Speaker 10: George just left.
[7:24] Speaker 12: He was so cute in the way he sneaked out
[7:27] Speaker 12: of Oh he was so Yeah.
[7:30] Speaker 3: But he'll be even nervouser when he sees the surprise
[7:32] Speaker 3: we got cooked up for him and Cuddles. Mims cuddleson
[7:35] Speaker 3: us being down there. You've given him your blessing and
[7:37] Speaker 3: us wishing him good luck and everything down there.
[7:39] Speaker 12: I mean, oh, poor dear boy. I hope he took
[7:43] Speaker 12: his good overshoes. The weather has been so unpredictable.
[7:47] Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, well.
[7:48] Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but you know George is.
[7:51] Speaker 7: My only child.
[7:52] Speaker 3: Well, don't forget you're not losing a son, Missus Gamble.
[7:55] Speaker 3: You're gaining a practical nurse. Miss Cuddleson is very practical too.
[8:00] Speaker 3: She'll help George save his money and maybe get him
[8:02] Speaker 3: to lose a few pounds.
[8:03] Speaker 5: Oh, missus Gamble, good morning, missus McGee. Are we all
[8:06] Speaker 5: set for the big occasion? Well, come on, let's go.
[8:09] Speaker 12: I risk George is a dead worred alive.
[8:13] Speaker 13: This happiest moment of my life.
[8:29] Speaker 14: Attention all passengers, Attention he name bamanah for all brains.
[8:35] Speaker 4: Have your bag window there he is, kittle, there he is.
[8:39] Speaker 4: It's got gamble. See over there at the information den.
[8:41] Speaker 5: Yes, sir, his bag's all packed in his face all
[8:44] Speaker 5: a glow.
[8:44] Speaker 13: Yeah.
[8:44] Speaker 4: I don't see Miss Cuddlson yet.
[8:46] Speaker 3: So this is the perfect time for you to rush
[8:47] Speaker 3: over there, missus Gamble and throw your arms around him.
[8:50] Speaker 4: Go I tell him how happy we all are foreorn.
[8:52] Speaker 12: Oh dear, I hope George won't be angry.
[8:55] Speaker 5: I mean, why of course he won't. This will be
[8:58] Speaker 5: a big load off of his mind.
[8:59] Speaker 3: Sure been worried that you don't approve of him getting married?
[9:02] Speaker 3: And well, gee, where's this will make it perfect?
[9:04] Speaker 12: I wish George's father were here. But then when it
[9:06] Speaker 12: came down to explain about the birds and bees. He
[9:09] Speaker 12: wasn't much helped then either, So I guess I can
[9:13] Speaker 12: manage she ate.
[9:14] Speaker 3: This wonderful Molly good old docket. It just kind of
[9:18] Speaker 3: gets me right in here.
[9:20] Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm bless his heart. He deserves it well. And
[9:22] Speaker 5: again I wait here, do you both have a good cry?
[9:24] Speaker 11: Yeah?
[9:25] Speaker 3: And then I'll drop my handkerchief and the elksman and
[9:27] Speaker 3: all docs. I mean, well, well go ahead, because we're
[9:29] Speaker 3: all anxious to wish him luck to Molly and me.
[9:31] Speaker 3: That is the two of us both.
[9:34] Speaker 7: I guess you are.
[9:35] Speaker 12: This is this is a happy occasion, isn't it.
[9:40] Speaker 7: Well?
[9:41] Speaker 4: Here goes, well, go on, that's it, that's it.
[9:45] Speaker 5: Go Hello, hello George?
[9:52] Speaker 4: Oh crime Andy mom?
[9:55] Speaker 7: Now do would be upset? Son?
[9:57] Speaker 9: Do you know?
[9:57] Speaker 4: I mean we U?
[10:00] Speaker 12: Are you talking on the phone yesterday?
[10:02] Speaker 7: I know I shouldn't have been listening.
[10:04] Speaker 5: Oh, but I've explained.
[10:06] Speaker 12: The whole thing to the McGee's and they thought I
[10:08] Speaker 12: should see you too off at the station.
[10:10] Speaker 7: And will I really approve?
[10:13] Speaker 12: I think this Cason is a darling girl and a
[10:17] Speaker 12: perfect show.
[10:19] Speaker 7: Oh my, poor George.
[10:21] Speaker 4: The hack to quick Molly. Okay, gang, that's your cue.
[10:24] Speaker 7: Let him have.
[10:25] Speaker 14: It, hold it stopt here.
[10:36] Speaker 4: What's the married doctor?
[10:38] Speaker 8: Oh he's the Nashville type.
[10:40] Speaker 7: Come on, doctor, live it up.
[10:41] Speaker 15: You only get married once at least that's how we
[10:44] Speaker 15: do it where I come from.
[10:45] Speaker 7: Married.
[10:46] Speaker 4: Who's getting married? What's the eye?
[10:49] Speaker 5: McGhee?
[10:50] Speaker 4: I bet you're the one who started. Wait a minute, doc,
[10:52] Speaker 4: await and what you mean? You? You and miss Carlson.
[10:55] Speaker 5: I don't know, but I heard you myself, George.
[10:58] Speaker 12: Look, lover, you said I've got the license and train tickets.
[11:02] Speaker 16: And I didn't say lover, I said, ah for the mom.
[11:08] Speaker 16: Look you see that gentleman over there carrying that knapsack
[11:11] Speaker 16: and those two shotguns.
[11:13] Speaker 4: Shotguns two.
[11:14] Speaker 16: Yes, that's what that conversation was about on the telephone.
[11:18] Speaker 16: That's the fell I've been waiting for, Chuck Glover. Look, Glover,
[11:22] Speaker 16: I said, I got the license, my hunting license. We're
[11:25] Speaker 16: supposed to go duck hunting. What the reason I couldn't
[11:28] Speaker 16: let mother know is because she doesn't approve of grown
[11:30] Speaker 16: men shooting harmless ducks.
[11:32] Speaker 9: Oh ah, this.
[11:34] Speaker 4: Trouble, Ah, this is ridiculous.
[11:36] Speaker 12: It certainly is a couple of grown men shooting ducks.
[11:41] Speaker 12: Now you listen, to me, George, I'm your mother, and
[11:44] Speaker 12: until you get married, you're going to respect my wishes.
[11:47] Speaker 12: And I say, you're not going out to catch your
[11:49] Speaker 12: death of cold shooting harmless ducks.
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[13:22] Speaker 4: Am I glad to get home? Brother? What are shambles
[13:25] Speaker 4: that turned out to be?
[13:26] Speaker 5: Yeah, your friends and the band weren't any too happy
[13:28] Speaker 5: about you getting them out of bed and down to
[13:30] Speaker 5: the station at six am for nothing.
[13:32] Speaker 4: I talked them out of that, all right. That ain't
[13:33] Speaker 4: help to bother me it's this.
[13:36] Speaker 5: Good morning paper. Yeah, let's see it. Prominent physician elopes
[13:40] Speaker 5: with pretty nurse for what. Oh the doctor will just
[13:44] Speaker 5: simply get how did this happen?
[13:47] Speaker 4: I talked too much? You do?
[13:49] Speaker 7: Indeed?
[13:50] Speaker 5: Good night, good night.
[13:51] Speaker 2: A Fiber McGhee and Molly is an NBC Radio Network
[14:07] Speaker 2: production transcribed with Bill Thompson as mister Wimple, Arthur Q.
[14:11] Speaker 2: Briant as Doctor Gamble, Robert Easton is less, and Kate
[14:14] Speaker 2: McKenna as Missus Gamble.
[14:17] Speaker 7: Well Sunday night, mister.
[14:19] Speaker 2: McGhee is so busy ducking one of his new neighbors
[14:22] Speaker 2: that he misses out on an invitation that he would
[14:24] Speaker 2: have given his right arm for. This is John Walld
[14:27] Speaker 2: advising you to tune in again Sunday night for full details.
[14:48] Speaker 2: Join the Great Gilder Sleeve and all his friends tonight
[14:50] Speaker 2: on the NBC Radio Network.
[15:05] Speaker 1: We close with Fiber Magee and Molly in Dark Secret Trip.
[15:08] Speaker 1: Good Night, and thank you for sharing this broadcast.

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