What happens
Phil Harris and Alice Faye host two French refugee children, Francois and Marie, for Christmas Eve at their home. Phil invites the pair after reading about refugee children in the newspaper, and the household prepares for their visit by decorating and planning to let the children see Santa Claus. Phil and his friends, including Elliot Lewis, Gale Gordon and Walter Tetley, handle a series of mishaps, such as a missing tree, a substitute Santa and a late arrival. This is a Christmas episode of The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on NBC on December 25, 1953, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the lead roles.
The Harris home in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, with a nearby market.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Phyllis, Elliot Lewis, Gale Gordon, Francois, Marie, Julius
Listen for: Phil's invitation to the French children and the arrival of the substitute Santa Claus.
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.