What happens
Life with Luigi is a comedy series in which Luigi Basko, a recent immigrant, writes letters home to his mother in Italy describing his life in America. In this episode, Luigi takes a night class and then goes out on Halloween with a neighbor boy named Richard, hoping to make sure the lonely child gets plenty of treats. Their outing takes a turn when the two of them knock on doors across the neighborhood, and Luigi soon finds himself in trouble with the police. The episode, broadcast on October 30, 1951, features J. Carroll Naish as Luigi and Alan Reed as Pasquale.
Halloween in an American city, including a night school classroom and a neighborhood of residential streets
Characters: Luigi Basko, Pasquale, Richard, Miss Pozzini, Mr. Harrowitz, Rosa, Mr. Olson
Listen for: Luigi's attempts to give the boy Richard a good Halloween, and the comic misunderstandings that follow when they knock on doors and the police step in
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.