What happens
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are visited by a publicity agent named Needle, who offers to handle their public relations. Costello is wary of the plan, and Needle soon demands a large weekly salary while sending the two on a series of odd tasks. Preparations also begin for a visit from a Turkish star, Turin Bay, whose leading lady is the Princess Benally. Costello and Abbott are drawn into a comic sketch in which they play rescuers of the princess, complete with a desert chase and a harem setting. The broadcast ends with the pair sharing the microphone and a closing exchange with a listener, Mrs. Klotch, whose daughter has the measles.
Hollywood, California, at the home of Abbott and Costello, and on the radio program's stage
Characters: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Needle, Mrs. Klotch, Turin Bay, Princess Benally, Connie Haines
Listen for: Needle's rapid business pitch and his salary demand, then the desert sketch with the Princess Benally
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.