What happens
Phil Harris wants to buy his young daughter Phyllis an electric toy pony for her birthday, but Alice Faye thinks it is too expensive. Phil enlists his friend Remley, and then Curly, to help him find a pony, and the search leads them to a bookmaking office and a shady horse dealer named Grogan. Their efforts end in comic confusion when Remley returns with a surprise for the birthday girl. This episode of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show was first broadcast on NBC on January 21, 1951, with Phil Harris and Alice Faye starring.
The Harris home and various places around town, including a bookmaking office and a horse dealer's establishment.
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Phyllis, Frankie Remley, Curly, Grogan, Sam, Julius
Listen for: Remley's bargain-bin purchases and his search for a pony leading to a series of comic misadventures.
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.