What happens
Phil Harris and his wife Alice Faye, along with their friend Frankie Remley, prepare to attend the presidential inaugural ball in Washington, D.C. Phil's son Willie also has an invitation, which causes friction, and Frankie feels slighted at being left out. The family's plans run into trouble when Phil's full dress suit is ruined, and the group scrambles to find a replacement and get into the event. The episode is an NBC comedy from January 23, 1949, from the series The Phil Harris, starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye, with Elliott Lewis and Gale Gordon.
Washington, D.C., a hotel suite and the presidential inaugural ball
Characters: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Frankie Remley, Willie, Fred Allen
Listen for: Phil's attempts to get Frankie's suit and Willie's invitation sorted out before the ball, and the problems with the ruined full dress suit
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.
