What happens
Phil Harris and Alice Faye arrive at an exclusive Palm Springs hotel, where Alice hopes to rest on her doctor's advice. Phil's attempts to secure a room by dropping names are met with suspicion, and the hotel staff balk at a family arriving with children and a dog. Their plans for a quiet getaway quickly unravel as relatives keep turning up. The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show is a radio comedy series that aired on NBC; this episode was first broadcast on March 26, 1950, and features Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the leading roles, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also in the cast.
A hotel in Palm Springs, California, and the town around it
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Willie, Julius, Frankie, Curly, Remly, Humphrey
Listen for: Phil's attempts to get a room by claiming to be important, and the mounting confusion as more relatives arrive
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.
