The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show aired from 1948 to 1954 on NBC Radio. The real-life couple starred as fictionalized versions of themselves as a show-biz couple raising two daughters. The show was a revamped version of the comedy variety program The Fitch Bandwagon (1938-1948, NBC; Harris and Faye were featured in the final two seasons).
Cast members included Elliott Lewis as left-handed guitar player Elliott Lewis (originally called Frank Remley [after a real-life member of the band on Jack Benny's program] until 1952, when Benny moved to CBS), Jeanine Roose and Anne Whitfield as the couple's duaghters, Walter Tetley as the malevolent grocery boy Julius Abruzzio with a crush on Faye, and Gale Gordon as Mr. Scott, the president of Rexall (the show's sponsor and, therefore, Phil's boss; when the show switched sponsors to RCA, Scott was fired by Rexall and hired by RCA. Other regulars included Dick Lane, Sheldon Leonard, Alan Reed (the original voice of fred Flintstone), and Martha Wentworth (known as the "Actress of a Thousand Voices").
As with the entire show, "Julius Is in Jail" is comedy gold. The episode was written by Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIK7WLqziKw
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