What happens
Phil Harris, a would-be scholar, enrolls in a course at the University of Southern California and tries to write a composition about basket weaving. His wife, Blondie, is skeptical of his new study habits, and his bandmates offer their own ideas. Frankie helps him write the assignment, but the result gets him thrown out of class. The episode is from The Phil Harris series, broadcast on NBC on December 1, 1946, starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also in the cast.
Los Angeles, including the University of Southern California and the Harris home
Characters: Phil Harris, Blondie, Frankie, Curly, Professor
Listen for: Phil's attempt to write his basket weaving composition and the trouble it causes at school
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.