What happens
Luigi Basco, a newly arrived Italian immigrant in Chicago, tests a weighing scale that returns more pennies than it should, and a friend named Pasquale urges him to keep them. Luigi is inspired by his night-school lessons about Abraham Lincoln, whose honesty he admires, and resolves to return the money. The Life with Luigi comedy series, which aired on February 12, 1952, stars J. Carol Nash as Luigi and Alan Reed as Pasquale. In this episode, Luigi decides to travel to Toledo to give the money back to the scale company.
Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1950s, with a night school, a neighborhood street and a trip toward Toledo, Ohio.
Characters: Luigi Basco, Pasquale, Rosa, Miss Balding, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Horowitz, Mr. Basco
Listen for: Luigi's attempts to reason with the weighing scale and the lesson about Abraham Lincoln's honesty.
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.