Choosing Where To Go On Vacation: The Phil Harris (March 16, 1952)

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“Choosing Where To Go On Vacation” is an episode of The Phil Harris, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 16, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Phil Harris, Alice Faye and their children plan a family vacation, and the children want to go skiing in the high Sierras. Phil, who has never skied, is reluctant to go. He is a radio episode from the Phil Harris series, originally broadcast on NBC on March 16, 1952, and the leads are Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also appearing. The story follows Phil's efforts to avoid the trip and his attempts to hide his lack of skiing experience from his family.

A department store, the Harris home, and a doctor's office, with the family's vacation destination the high Sierras

Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie, Remley, Curly, Julius

Listen for: Phil's attempts to get out of the skiing trip with the help of Frankie and Remley

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.