What happens
Phil Harris is scheduled to have his tonsils removed, and he is nervous about the operation. His wife Alice tries to reassure him, but his worries grow as he prepares to go to the hospital. Friends including Frankie Remley and Curly offer their own opinions and jokes about the procedure. The Phil Harris show, a 1949 NBC broadcast, stars Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon also in the cast. The episode follows Phil through his anxious wait at the hospital, where his fears lead to a comic confusion.
The Harris home, then Hollywood Memorial Hospital
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Curly, Julius, Willie, Dr. Stanley Emmerman
Listen for: Phil's escalating nervousness about his tonsillectomy and the comic hospital sequence that follows
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.