What happens
Eddie York and Chuck Gibson, two ex-soldiers, are cornered in a Manhattan apartment by a bookmaker named Elias Arnold, who insists Eddie is a man called Pemberton and collects on a gambling debt. Eddie and Chuck pursue the money to a Long Island estate, where Francis Pemberton's family and his grandfather don't recognize them as anyone but the man they are mistaken for. The episode is a 1946 Lux Radio Theatre presentation adapted from the Columbia Pictures comedy Pardon My Past, with Fred MacMurray and Marguerite Chapman in the leads. Lux Radio Theatre broadcast this version on May 13, 1946.
New York City and a Long Island estate, 1940s
Characters: Eddie York, Chuck Gibson, Elias Arnold, Francis Pemberton, Joan, Grandpa, Uncle Will, Mary
Listen for: Eddie York insisting he is not Pemberton, and the mistaken-identity mix-up as the family treats him as the man they know
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.