What happens
Fred Allen returns to the air after a long break and trades jokes with Kenny Delmar and Portland Hoffa about radio and the postwar world. He visits Allen's Alley, where neighbors including Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody and Mrs. Nussbaum complain about the housing shortage. Songwriters from the Demarco Sisters sing a topical song about it. Al Goodman's orchestra plays, and Charlie McCarthy's story of leaving Edgar Bergen to team up with Allen is told in the broadcast. The Fred Allen Show is a radio comedy series, and this episode aired on October 7, 1945, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious among the cast.
A radio studio and the fictional Allen's Alley in New York City, in the fall of 1945.
Characters: Fred Allen, Kenny Delmar, Portland Hoffa, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen
Listen for: Fred Allen's visit to Allen's Alley, where Senator Claghorn and Mrs. Nussbaum describe the housing shortage.
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.