What happens
Chester A. Riley and his co-worker Jim Gillis brag about their sons, Junior and Eggbert, as they walk home from work. Riley learns of an upcoming father and son banquet where each father must speak about his son's future profession, and Junior has no idea what he wants to be. Riley grows anxious about what he will say at the dinner and tries various ways to discover a talent in his son. The series, the 1948 Blue Network broadcast, and the cast of William Bendix and Paula Winslowe are the setting for the story.
Riley and Gillis's neighborhood and the Riley home, and later a school father and son banquet.
Characters: Chester A. Riley, Jim Gillis, Junior Riley, Eggbert Gillis, Peg Riley, Digby O'Dell
Listen for: Riley's attempts to find a talent in Junior and his worry about his speech at the father and son dinner.
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.