What happens
Phil Harris, a protective father, learns that his fourteen-year-old daughter Alice is about to go to a dance with a date, and he is alarmed by her new lipstick and grown-up look. His wife Alice Faye tries to calm him as the evening arrives and her date, a boy called Sniffy, comes to the door. Phil and his friend Elliot Lewis, aided by Gale Gordon, decide to question the young man before the dance. The episode is from the Phil Harris series, first broadcast on NBC on October 9, 1953, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the leading roles.
The Harris family home, on the evening Alice is due to go out to a school dance.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliot Lewis, Gale Gordon, Alice, Phyllis, Sniffy, Julius
Listen for: Phil's escalating protectiveness toward his daughter Alice, and the comic exchanges as he and his friends interrogate her date, Sniffy.
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.