What happens
Sunny Fife, a navy sailor, and his new bride Janie Prescott have only two days together before he must return to his ship. Their plans are disrupted when Janie's mother has lost money to a swindler, Peter Warrington. Sunny's father, Colonel Fife, a con man himself, offers to recover the money within the two days. The episode is Screen Guild Theater's 1943 broadcast of Hi Diddle Diddle, first aired October 4, 1943, with Martha Scott, George Murphy, Mary Boland and Walter Abel. The story follows the couple's hasty wedding and the schemes that follow.
A city in the United States in 1943, including Mrs. Prescott's house, the 59 Club casino and a brokerage office.
Characters: Janie Prescott, Sunny Fife, Mrs. Prescott, Colonel Fife, Peter Warrington, Leslie Quail, Dan Hannigan
Listen for: Colonel Fife's scheme to win back Mrs. Prescott's money at the 59 Club roulette table, and the honeymoon plans that keep getting interrupted.
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.