What happens
Luigi Bosco, a newcomer to America, writes to his mother in Italy about a cold season full of medicine advertisements and worries. His friend Pasquale falls ill and claims a strange mental ailment, while his daughter Rosa remains unmarried. Luigi tries to decide whether Pasquale is truly sick, and later begins searching for a bride through a matrimonial bureau. The episode is from the comedy series Life with Luigi, first broadcast on January 17, 1950, starring J. Carrol Naish as Luigi and Alan Reed as Pasquale.
New York City, in the 1950s, including Pasquale's spaghetti palace and Luigi's night school class.
Characters: Luigi Bosco, Pasquale, Rosa, Mr. Schulz, Mr. Horowitz, Mr. Olsen
Listen for: Pasquale's elaborate pretended illness and Luigi's comic letters to his mother in Italy.
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.