What happens
Chester A. Riley and his family try to agree on a joint Christmas gift for the house, pooling their money for a single purchase. Riley wants a television set, while his wife Peg and the children favor a piano, and the vote keeps ending in a deadlock. Riley enlists his neighbor Jim Gillis to help sway the family, and the debate grows heated as each side refuses to give ground. The episode, from The Life of Riley, aired on December 17, 1944, on the Blue Network and NBC, with William Bendix in the lead role of Riley and Paula Winslowe as Peg.
The Riley home and neighborhood, in the days before Christmas.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Peg Riley, Junior, Babs, Jim Gillis, Digger O'Dell
Listen for: The family's repeated votes and Riley's attempts to win them over.
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.