What happens
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa stroll down a town's Main Street, stopping to question a series of townspeople about women's achievements. Their encounters include a senator heading a pay-for-conservation committee, a bloodshot-eyed man who mixed up two jugs of lawn products, and a dapper undertaker's friend who describes a sewer dedication. The episode is a comic sketch show from the Fred Allen Show series, first broadcast on January 30, 1949, on CBS and NBC. Guest Rudy Vallee joins the program, and the lead actors include Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious.
A town's Main Street, a movie house, a Greyhound bus station, and a television agent's office
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Rudy Vallee, Kenny Delmar, Senator Clanko, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Cassidy
Listen for: Fred Allen's dry questioning of the townspeople about women's achievements, and Rudy Vallee's account of his retirement routine involving a bank in his yard
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.