What happens
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa stroll through a town and meet a series of odd characters while asking them whether men or women spend more on clothes. Along the way Fred encounters Senator Claghorn, Mr. Moody, and Henry Morgan, who is collecting donations dressed as Santa Claus. The episode is the 1948 Fred Allen radio show, first broadcast on December 5, 1948, and it features Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, and Minerva Pious. Between scenes the program includes sponsor messages for Ford dealers, and Henry Morgan describes his odd jobs and his plans for television crime shows and dog food commercials.
A city's Main Street and its shops, decorated for Christmas, in December 1948.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Senator Claghorn, Mr. Moody, Henry Morgan, Kenny Delmar, Ajax, Mittens
Listen for: Fred's street conversations with Senator Claghorn, Mr. Moody, and Henry Morgan, and Henry's comic talk about radio and television.
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.