What happens
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play two men struggling through an evening in this Abbott and Costello episode first broadcast on June 20, 1946. Abbott, who is planning to propose to a wealthy widow, Carlotta Cranberry, enlists Costello to serve as his butler at a dinner party for her. The two men scramble to find a cook, asking around their friends, and the evening quickly grows chaotic as Costello struggles with the duties of a butler. The episode is broadcast on NBC and ABC.
Los Angeles, California, in the evening, at Abbott's home and in the neighborhood around it
Characters: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Carlotta Cranberry, Mrs. Trander, Tessie Tinkoyle, Mrs. Niles, Phoebe
Listen for: Costello's attempts to act as a butler and the bickering over the dinner preparations
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.