What happens
Phil Harris enrolls at the University of Southern California as an adult student, and his wife Alice Faye and their children watch his efforts with amusement. Phil struggles in class, a basket weaving professor gives him an unusual test, and he begins seeing a psychiatrist to improve himself. Along the way the household talks about Phil's past, his band days, and his marriage. This episode is from The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show, first broadcast on NBC on January 5, 1947, starring Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
Los Angeles, California: the Harris home, the University of Southern California, and a psychiatrist's office on Wilshire Boulevard.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Gale Gordon, Elliott Lewis
Listen for: Phil's visit to the psychiatrist, and the hilarious account of what the doctors supposedly said about his personality.
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.