What happens
Phil Harris wants a finishing school for his daughter Alice, but the exclusive school rejects her because her father is an actor. Phil, prompted by Elliot Lewis, decides to pose as a famous explorer so the school will accept her. His plan leads him to seek out a rocket commander and join a trip to the moon. Phil's friends and family react to his growing and increasingly strange plans. The episode is from the NBC series The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on November 13, 1953, and stars Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
Encino, California, the Harris household, with visits to a German professor's home and a rocket launch site
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Walter Tetley, Julius, Commander Corey, Professor Hugo von Strausman
Listen for: Phil's scheme to pose as an explorer to get Alice into the finishing school, and his escalating plans to travel to the moon
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.