What happens
Luigi Bosco, a recent Italian immigrant running an antique shop in Chicago, is pressed by his friend Pasquale to marry Pasquale's daughter Rosa, debt and all. Luigi is reluctant, and his young employee Jimmy O'Connor, whom he has been raising, worries that a new wife could change their life. Luigi starts looking for a wife through Doc, a used-car salesman who also arranges marriages, while Miss Spalding, a social worker, watches over Jimmy's welfare. The episode is from the comedy series Life with Luigi, which first aired on 1948-12-28, with J. Carol Nash in the title role and Alan Reed as Pasquale.
Chicago, in the antique shop of Luigi Bosco and the neighborhood around it
Characters: Luigi Bosco, Pasquale, Rosa, Jimmy O'Connor, Doc, Miss Spalding
Listen for: Pasquale's constant push for the marriage to Rosa, and Luigi's escalating search for a wife through Doc
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.