What happens
Polly Parish, a department store clerk, finds a baby on an orphanage step on the day before Christmas and tries to hand it over. Her employer David Merlin, son of store owner J.B. Merlin, soon becomes involved as the baby is passed between them and others. The broadcast, part of the Screen Guild Theater series, aired on May 6, 1946 and stars David Niven, Ginger Rogers and Francis X. Bushman. Polly is pressured to give the child up, and Merlin's relationship with her grows more complicated as the two spend New Year's Eve together and tensions over the baby's paternity rise with J.B. Merlin.
A department store in an unnamed city, an orphanage, and Polly's apartment, around Christmas and New Year's, 1946 broadcast
Characters: Polly Parish, David Merlin, J.B. Merlin, Fred Boggins, Mrs. Weiss, Johnny
Listen for: The baby passed between characters, and Polly's insistence that it is not hers
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.