"If you can dream - and not make dreams your master..."

From "If", written by Rudyard Kipling to his son

HIMAN BROWN: "Hi, Norm, remember that show we recorded a week back about that "down-on-his-luck" guy who gets caught up with an old friend who thinks he's going to get rich because of something from the past?"

NORMAN ROSE: "sure, Hi...and the guy's lied to by his 'friend' as to what's really going on, and the friend like a fool is willing to risk everything including his own life to get the treasure?"

HIMAN BROWN: "Yes, that's it. Percy Grainger did such a good script that Fred Lewis and I thought we'd do it again, right down to you introducing yourself at the beginning over that "oboe-and-bassoon" melody we used in "Hickory Dickory Doom".

NORMAN ROSE: "Oh, wow...who will I say I am THIS week?"

Imaginary conversation in January 1978 between Himan Brown and Norman Rose

...and so, I nominate for this week's show(s) "The Laughing Maiden" and its fraternal twin born two weeks later "Yesterday's Giant".