What happens
Luigi Vasco, a shopkeeper with an antique store in America, faces trouble when his accountant warns that his lease will not be renewed because his business is failing. Pasquale, his landlord, refuses to renew the lease, and Luigi struggles to find customers. His friend Schultz suggests he change what he sells, and Luigi plans to open a shop combining books and phonograph records. A bank loan request goes badly, and a friend, Gino, offers him a way forward by suggesting Luigi learn barbering. Life with Luigi is a half-hour comedy series, and this episode first aired on November 7, 1950, with J. Carrol Naish in the title role.
An antique shop in an American city, a bank, and a barber college.
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Pasquale, Schultz, Olsen, Horowitz, Rosa, Gino, Mr. Dasso
Listen for: Luigi's attempts to save his shop and his experiments with barbering.
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.