What happens
Fred Allen takes a series of comic detours through his show, trading jokes with his regulars and a string of visitors, and then turns to a story about baseball tickets. Fred meets Leo Durocher, who has become a writer and is learning manners, and who gives Fred two tickets to a Dodgers game. Fred heads to Brooklyn to see the game, but a police officer arrests him and a court hearing follows. The episode is part of the Fred Allen series, first broadcast on April 25, 1948, and features Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious.
Fred Allen's radio program in New York, with comic sketches set in Brooklyn and a courtroom.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Leo Durocher, Senator Claghorn, Mr. Moody, Ajax Cassidy
Listen for: Fred's exchanges with Portland Hoffa and Leo Durocher, and the courtroom sequence in Brooklyn.
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.