What happens
Phil Harris and Elliot Lewis stroll along Hollywood Boulevard shopping for Christmas gifts for their wives and friends. At a pet shop they buy a talking crow, Arnold, for Alice Faye, but a stray check stub makes Phil suspect Alice is secretly paying someone named Sam Bananas. Elliot agrees to help Phil play detective, and the two of them trail Alice across town. The series is The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on NBC on December 11, 1953, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye in the leads alongside Elliot Lewis and Gale Gordon.
Hollywood, California, during the Christmas season, including Hollywood Boulevard, a pet shop, the Harris home, and the city streets
Characters: Phil Harris, Elliot Lewis, Alice Faye, Curly, Julius, Sam Bananas, Arnold
Listen for: Phil's suspicion over the checkbook stubs and the mysterious payments to Sam, and the hunt that follows through town
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.