What happens
Luigi Vasco, a newly arrived immigrant in Chicago, is working toward his citizenship papers. On his way to night school he sees a car crash and volunteers to act as a witness. Soon afterward he is served with a court order and must appear in court on the same day as his first citizenship appointment. Life with Luigi is a comedy series starring J. Carrol Naish, with Alan Reed as Sully. The series premiered on CBS on 1949-09-04.
Chicago, Illinois, 1940s: a neighborhood street, a night school, a grocery store, and a courtroom.
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Mr. Schultz, Pascuali, Rosa, Sully, Judge Mitchell, Miss Spalding
Listen for: Luigi's letters to his mother in Italy, and the courtroom exchange in which he is questioned about the accident.
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.