What happens
Phil Harris forgets Mother's Day, and his wife Alice Faye has already received a food warmer from her daughters. Phil claims he bought her a string of pearls, but he has none, so he borrows a pair from Julius and his friends to pass off as a gift. The pearls come under suspicion from Alice, and the plan to keep up the deception grows more elaborate. This is an episode of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, which aired on NBC on May 10, 1953, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the lead roles, alongside Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
The Harris home and the surrounding neighborhood on Mother's Day
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Julius, Curly, Phyllis
Listen for: Phil's attempts to hide his forgotten gift from Alice
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.