 This timing was sadly appropriate, as classic radio had entered its dying days.Still, the McGees remained favorite presences on radio even after the quarter-hour edition ended in 1956, appearing in five-minute shorts from 1957 to 1959 on the NBC's "Monitor" radio program as "Just Molly and Me".Radio historian Gerald S. Nachman has written that the Jordans anticipated renewing their contract with NBC for another three years when Marian's battle against ovarian cancer ended with her death in 1961.