What happens
Mel Blanc plays Mel, who runs a fix-it shop and wants to marry his fiancée Betty while his uncle Rupert and his assistant Zookie keep living off him. To win Betty's approval, Mel decides to send birthday cards to everyone in town with a birthday that month. Things go wrong when the wrong list is used and the gifts he sends carry an unexpected surprise. The Mel Blanc Show aired on September 3, 1946, with Mary Jane Croft, Earl Ross, Joe Kearns and Victor Miller and his orchestra in the cast.
Mel's fix-it shop in Hollywood, and the town around it
Characters: Mel Blanc, Betty, Uncle Rupert, Zookie, Mrs. Longnecker
Listen for: Mel's attempts to send birthday cards and the mix-up over the lists that follows
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.