What happens
Phil Harris learns that a state policeman has been calling at his house about a legal matter, and he is worried. Hiding under the front porch with Curly, he jokes and bickers while Alice sends messages in Morse code. Phil confesses to a series of imagined offences before the officer finally arrives and explains the charge. The series is The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on NBC on March 12, 1954, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the leads, alongside Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
Phil Harris's house in Encino, California, and later a Los Angeles courthouse and a driving school.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Curly, Elliott Lewis, Julius, Dominic Abruzio, Judge John Stone
Listen for: Phil's frequent confessions to made-up offences, and the officer's explanation of the charge against him.
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.