Looking for an Apartment: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (December 3, 1944)

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“Looking for an Apartment” is an episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 3, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard are a married couple trying to help their friend Randy Bigelow, whose family arrives in town the next morning and needs a place to live. Ozzie spends weeks hunting for an apartment and believes the good deeds he does will come back to him. After a quarrel with a pair of mismatched errands, a lost wallet, and a rainy drive, the couple's luck seems to turn. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is a comedy series, and this episode first aired on December 3, 1944.

A town in California, including the Nelsons' home, a ration board office, a rain-soaked road, and an apartment building.

Characters: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, Randy Bigelow, Gloria, David, Henry Williams, Mrs. Williams

Listen for: Ozzie's theory that good deeds come back to you, and the couple's rainy drive home.

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.