An English Dinner For A New Year: The Phil Harris (January 8, 1954)

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“An English Dinner For A New Year” is an episode of The Phil Harris, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 8, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Phil Harris and his wife Alice Faye are on their way to Hollywood when Harris, who wants a new car, goes with his friend Elliott Lewis to see a British Thunder Jet. The sales staff refuses to sell it to them. Elliott devises a plan to win over Lord Kravington, a British visitor, with an English dinner at the Harris home. The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show is a 1954 NBC radio series, first broadcast on January 8, 1954, starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also featured in this episode.

Encino and Hollywood, California

Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Curly, Julius, Lord Kravington

Listen for: Elliott's scheme to win over Lord Kravington with an English dinner

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.