What happens
Phil Harris and his friend Frankie Remley have tickets to a big football game, but Phil's wife Alice Faye has bought him a television set as a surprise, and Phil refuses to accept the new medium. The episode of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, broadcast on NBC on November 26, 1950, stars Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon among the supporting cast. Phil boasts about his football days, and the story turns on the set Alice buys, which turns out to be a cheap second-hand portable. Phil and Frankie then go looking for a cheaper way to watch the game at home.
Hollywood, at the Harris home and in a secondhand house-furnishing shop in the city
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Curly, Willie, Grogan
Listen for: Phil's boasts about his football days and his refusal to accept television, followed by the cheap television set Alice has bought him
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.