What happens
Phil Harris learns that sponsor Mr. Scott wants him to dismiss five members of his band, including his longtime guitarist Frankie Remley, whom Scott considers the worst player in the group. Harris reluctantly delivers the news to the musicians, while Alice Faye and Willie advise him on how to handle it. Frankie, meanwhile, pleads with Harris to find a way to keep his job. The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show was broadcast on NBC on February 6, 1949, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye starring, and Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also appearing in the cast.
Harris's office and rehearsal room, and the Rexall company offices, with the Harris household and the streets of the city as additional locations.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Willie, Frankie Remley, Mr. Scott, Curly, Julius
Listen for: The sponsor Mr. Scott's decision about Frankie Remley's place in the band, and the schemes Remley and Curly devise to change his mind.
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.