Planning a Vacation: OTRR My Friend Irma Singles (June 28, 1948)

“Planning a Vacation” is an episode of OTRR My Friend Irma Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 28, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Irma Peterson and her roommate Jane Stacey, having lived together for a year, plan a vacation, and Irma's idle suggestions of places to go complicate the matter. Richard offers to invite them to a resort, and Irma and Jane try to secure a reservation at the Moosehead Lodge in Maine by letter. Their boyfriends Al and Richard, along with the Professor and Mrs. O'Reilly, add to the planning. The story is part of the My Friend Irma radio series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on June 28, 1948, with Marie Wilson as Irma and Cathy Lewis as Jane.

New York City, where Irma and Jane share an apartment, and plans are made for a vacation in Maine.

Characters: Irma Peterson, Jane Stacey, Richard, Al, Professor Kropodkin, Mrs. O'Reilly, Joe, Chicken

Listen for: Irma's mistaken readings of travel brochures and Jane's attempts to get a reservation at the Moosehead Lodge.

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.