What happens
Phil Harris goes shopping for a birthday present for his wife Alice Faye, but he forgets to buy anything before she arrives home. His friend Frankie Remley tries to help by picking out gifts, which leads to mix-ups and an unwanted purchase. Meanwhile Alice tells her daughters she wants a small house in the country, and Phil sets out to buy one for her. This episode is part of The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on NBC on March 20, 1949, starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye alongside Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
A department store and a suburban home, with a real estate office in the city
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Willie, Julius, Ben Duffy
Listen for: Phil's attempts to find a birthday gift for Alice and the confusion over the house purchase
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.