What happens
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa host a comedy broadcast in which Fred goes apartment hunting after losing his place. At a rental agency run by Hotchkiss, Fred meets Boris Karloff, who offers to rent his house on 92nd Street. Fred visits the house and finds it full of strange characters and odd goings-on. The episode is the Fred Allen show, broadcast on November 18, 1945 on CBS and NBC, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the cast. The story is a comic sketch built around puns, running gags and Karloff's horror-film persona.
New York City, a rental agency, and Boris Karloff's house on 92nd Street
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Boris Karloff, Hotchkiss, Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody
Listen for: The rental agent's office and Karloff's house, where Fred's tour turns into a string of gags
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.