What happens
Gloria Harkenson, a schoolgirl in Switzerland, has invented a father who is a world explorer, having told her classmates he sends her exotic gifts. When a stranger, Richard Todd, steps off the train at Brussels House, she mistakes him for her father and welcomes him. Gloria Jean and Herbert Marshall star in this Screen Guild Theater adaptation of the Universal picture Mad About Music, with Eric Bloor also appearing. The episode was first broadcast on October 16, 1944.
Switzerland, at a finishing school and a hotel in Brussels House, and later Paris
Characters: Gloria Harkenson, Richard Todd, Madame Wasselinet, Pierre, Dusty Rose, Gwen Taylor, Felice
Listen for: Gloria's invented father and her first meeting with Richard Todd at the station
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.