What happens
Phil Harris and Alice Faye star in this 1948 episode of The Phil Harris, first broadcast on NBC on November 21, 1948. Alice has put the household on a strict health diet of raw carrots, vegetable juice and dried fruit, and Phil is starving. He and his friend Frankie Remley hatch a scheme to get Alice to believe she has slimmed down, so that the family can break the diet and join a restaurant opening.
The Harris home and a Hollywood restaurant opening on the famous strip.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Curly, Julius, Dr. Crayle, Willie, Chilius
Listen for: Phil's increasingly desperate attempts to get a proper meal, and Frankie's scheme to fool Alice about her weight.
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.