What happens
Luigi Basko, a young Italian immigrant in New York, finds a wallet lying in the street and hands it to a policeman, who takes his name and address. The owner, Mr. Simpson, later claims that a hundred-dollar bill was missing from it, and Luigi is summoned to court. His friends Pasquale and Rosa rally around him as he prepares to defend his honesty. Luigi writes to his mother in Italy about the trouble. Life with Luigi is a comedy series created by Cy Howard and starring J. Carol Naish as Luigi, with Alan Reed as Pasquale, broadcast in 1950.
New York City, in the late 1940s, where Luigi is a recent immigrant from Italy who attends night school and works in an antiques business.
Characters: Luigi Basko, Pasquale, Rosa, Mr. Simpson, Miss Pudding, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Horowitz, Mr. Scholz
Listen for: Luigi's courtroom testimony and Pasquale's wisecracks about the American legal system.
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.