The first season that the Phil Harris, Alice Fay show was on the air, it was sponsered by Fitch Shampoo, and part of the Fitch Bandwagon lineup. After it's huge success, Rexall picked up the show where it would stay for years to come.
Phil Harris was more than Jack Benny's usually drunk, semi-literate lady killer of a bandleader. In real life, he was quite the family man, married to movie actress Alice Faye. Phil was a tallented and successful musician.
Both he and his wife, Alice Fay, were getting over failed marriages when they tied the knot in 1941. It would be a union that would endure until Phil's passing over 50 years later. Their daughters were born in 1942 and 1944. Early on, Alice made at least one guest appearance on the Jack Benny program, and his daughters, in the form of an adult actress making baby noises.
When Pil began his own radio program, his daughters were to be featured, this time being played by child actresses. His fictional guitarist, Frank Remley, first developed on the Jack Benny program would follow him as well. Added to his radio family were Julius the grocery boy, played by Walter Tetley, Julius had a crush on Alice, and was the nemesis of both Phil and Remley, getting picked on as well as getting his revenge. A fictional brother of Alice's made frequent appearances to try to keep Phil on the up and up.
