What happens
On a snowy Christmas week, the wooden puppet Pinocchio is brought to life by a kindly old woodcarver, Geppetto, who wishes for a real boy. Jiminy Cricket serves as Pinocchio's conscience and companion as the two set out for school. Along the way, Pinocchio meets a sly fox and cat who try to lure him away with promises of easy money. The blue fairy appears, and Pinocchio and Jiminy head onward into a series of adventures. The broadcast is a Screen Guild Theater adaptation of Disney's Pinocchio, first aired December 30, 1948, with Stafford and Jeffrey Silver in the leading roles. The transcript breaks off before the story reaches its conclusion.
A village and the surrounding countryside, including a street, a school road, and later the sea and the inside of a whale.
Characters: Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, The Blue Fairy, The Fox, The Cat
Listen for: Pinocchio's wish to become a real boy, and Jiminy Cricket's warnings about temptation on the way to school.
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.