What happens
Phil Harris and Alice Faye are downtown shopping on the Saturday before Mother's Day. Phil wants to buy Alice a gift but has little money, so his friends Frankie and Curly Remley tag along. Phil is pointed toward a furrier named I.J. Grogan, who runs a shady operation in a dark alley. Phil keeps trying to find a present for Alice while the trio gets into one trouble after another. The episode is from The Phil Harris series, originally broadcast on NBC on May 8, 1949, starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye.
Downtown shopping district and a dark alley on the Saturday before Mother's Day, 1949
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Curly, I.J. Grogan
Listen for: Phil's attempts to buy Alice a Mother's Day present and the dealings with the furrier Grogan
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.