What happens
Billy Crocker, a young man out of work, meets Reno Sweeney, a nightclub entertainer, on the dock as she sails for England. Billy has just spent six hours in an elevator with a girl named Hope Smith and has been searching for her ever since. Aboard ship, Billy sneaks onto the liner without a ticket or passport, and a mistaken identity puts him at odds with the captain and the crew. Hope is engaged to a Sir Evelyn Oakley, and Billy hopes to change her mind. The episode is a musical comedy of the Railroad Hour series, aired October 11, 1948, starring Gordon MacRae, Margaret Whiting and Victor Moore.
A transatlantic ocean liner sailing from New York to England, and a ship's brig.
Characters: Billy Crocker, Reno Sweeney, Hope Smith, Moon Face McGee, Sir Evelyn Oakley, E.J. Kippney
Listen for: The songs "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Anything Goes", sung by Gordon MacRae and Margaret Whiting.
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.