What happens
Fred Allen strolls down Main Street on a Sunday night with his regular sidekick Portland Hoffa, trading jokes and chatting with townspeople about whether people like to travel. Their encounters include a senator discussing Professor Einstein, a neighbor who has never left her home, and an Irish marcher with sore feet. Later, Victor Moore arrives after a health-food dinner, and the program turns to a parody of a crime drama starring Victor Moore as a determined police chief hunting a gangster nicknamed Charlie the Chicken. The show was broadcast on March 20, 1949, on CBS and NBC.
Main Street on a Sunday night, with shop windows, a bookstore, a health food restaurant, and a parody police headquarters and chicken coop
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Victor Moore, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Ajax Cassidy
Listen for: The street encounters with townspeople about travel, and the Mobbuster sketch in which Victor Moore hunts Charlie the Chicken
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.