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The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show — 1949
42 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Phil Harris gets his draft notice.
Phil drops Willie's engagement ring down the drain and has to get it back.
Phil is crushed that his band was passed over to play at President Truman's inauguration.
Bound for the Inaugural Ball, Phil and Frankie set out to scrounge up a formal dress suit.
Phil takes on the duties of volunteer fire chief.
Mr. Scott orders Phil to fire Frankie Remley and four other musicians from the band.
It is Valentine's Day, and Alice keeps receiving flowers from a mysterious admirer signed only 'Guess Who?'
Frankie moves into the Harris guest room just as Phil is summoned for jury duty.
Phil hunts for a way to get Frankie a job -- and, more urgently, out of the house.
Phil and Frankie decide to wallpaper a room, with the predictably disastrous results.
Phil gets Frankie a job washing dishes in a Rexall store, and somehow Remley ends up accused of kidnapping.
Convinced Alice would rather have a little country cottage, Phil starts wheeling and dealing over the house.
Vacation plans unravel when Mayor Julius Abruzzio costs Phil and Frankie their driver's licenses.
Mr. Scott wants Phil's orchestra to play his daughter's school dance -- and the girl promptly develops a crush on Phil.
Phil and the gang set out for the Clyde Beatty Circus, and a lost set of tickets forces them to try sneaking in.
With the children's school principal coming for Easter dinner, Phil and Frankie try to doctor the roast to hurry the guests out.
Twentieth Century-Fox coaxes Alice back to the studio for another picture, with Phil tagging along -- and Hollywood may never recover.
Phil insists on helping with the annual spring cleaning and leaves Alice's living room looking like a minstrel show.
Phil buys Alice a Mother's Day bracelet and promptly finds himself arrested for receiving stolen goods.
Phil and Frankie somehow land Mr. Scott's Cadillac in his swimming pool -- and that is only the beginning of the trouble.
Phil proudly buys a yacht, 'The Flying Mermaid,' which turns out to have one small flaw: it is underwater.
Phil takes the whole family out for a picnic.
Phil is scheduled to have his tonsils removed.
Frankie unexpectedly finds himself the foster father of a young French orphan boy.
Frankie scrambles to get married in a hurry so he can hold on to Andy, his French orphan ward.
The season finale finds Phil and Alice anxiously wondering whether Rexall will renew the show for another year.
June 26, 1949
Concerned About Contract
The season finale finds Phil and Alice anxiously wondering whether Rexall will renew the show for another year.
Furious over Phil's unpreparedness, Mr. Scott orders him to keep regular office hours -- so Phil and Frankie launch their own Rexall one-cent sale.
Frankie buys a car for three hundred dollars -- and what a car it turns out to be.
Phil spots his first gray hairs in the mirror and sets off a household crisis over what to do about them.
Phil gets into a brawl at the Encino Market, and when he is sued for the damage his only witness is Julius.
Phil and Frankie try to help Julius's romance with Emma along -- using a ukulele.
RCA gives Phil a gold record, and his search for a trophy case to show it off becomes a campaign to get himself discovered on television.
Phil decides to become an engineer and is handed a monumental first assignment: changing a light bulb, which soon has the whole house rewired.
Certain the kids stole the school play, Phil sets out to make little Phyllis a movie star.
Frankie sinks his money into a wrestler called 'The Masked Mangler' -- who turns out to be a lady wrestler.
The Harrises scheme to unload Myrtle, the lady wrestler, onto the sponsor.
Phil plots to surprise Alice with a mink coat, and complications naturally pile up.
The season's last show before the summer break, as the Harrises look ahead to a rented cabin in the Sierras -- and put up the Christmas decorations.
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