What happens
Phil Harris, at home on New Year's Day 1954, tidies his cluttered desk and makes resolutions for the year. His friend Elliot Lewis listens, and Harris announces that he will give up smoking and lose ten pounds. Alice Faye, his wife, serves lunch, and Harris tries a health food restaurant. Gale Gordon appears in the comic sketches. The episode is part of the Phil Harris series, first broadcast on NBC on January 1, 1954.
Harris's home and den in Hollywood on New Year's Day, 1954, plus a health food restaurant
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Gale Gordon, Julius, Tommy
Listen for: Harris's New Year's resolutions and his attempt to quit smoking and diet at the health food restaurant
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.