What happens
Luigi Vasco, a recent immigrant from Italy, has a toothache and must decide where to get it treated in Chicago. Hoping to save money, he first tries a free clinic, then consults a series of mismatched practitioners and advisers, including his friend Pasquale and his teacher Ms. Spaulding. Life with Luigi is a comedy series created by Sid Howard and starring J. Carol Nash, with Alan Reed as Pasquale. This episode was broadcast on May 8, 1949.
Chicago, 1949, in and around a night school, a restaurant, a free clinic and a medical building
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Pasquale, Ms. Spaulding, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Horowitz
Listen for: Luigi's attempts to find affordable dental care and the comic exchanges with Pasquale about his toothache
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.