What happens
Bill Harris and his friend Frankie learn that bandleader Jack Bennett is taking his show to New York and that Bill has been invited, but Frankie is not. Bill and Frankie hock Bill's possessions to raise Frankie's fare. Meanwhile Bill's wife Alice hears about the trip and grows suspicious, and the two men's schemes to raise money for the tickets pile up. The broadcast is from the Phil Harris-Alice Faye series, heard on NBC on January 29, 1950, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the leading roles.
Los Angeles, at Phil and Alice's home and around town, including a pawn shop.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie, Curly, Jack Bennett, Willie, Julius, Mr. Scott
Listen for: Phil and Frankie's scheme to fake Frankie's suicide with chili sauce to get Alice to pay for the fare.
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.