What happens
Phil Harris and Alice Faye are asked to help with the upcoming election, with Phil appointed to an election committee that will call on local voters at their homes. The transcript shows the Harris household at home on a Sunday afternoon, where the children return late from school after their homework was marked wrong, and Phil is given political pamphlets to read. Phil Harris and Alice Faye star in this episode of The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, which aired on NBC on October 31, 1948. Phil boasts of his political knowledge, then turns to his friend Frankie Remley and Curly for advice, while Alice and Remley try to test him. The committee arrives to question Phil on the candidates and procedure.
The Harris household, 1948, on the eve of a presidential election
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Curly, Myrtle, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Cohen, Julius
Listen for: Phil's confident claims about politics and the election committee's questioning of 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.