Oogie offers to repay Judy's dress from his $3.50 weekly allowance.
1. Timeless Comedy Radio presents A Date with Judy in an episode about Judy Foster needing a dress for a school dance.
2. Louise Erickson plays Judy, John Brown plays her father, and their roles matter because the story turns on Judy's demand and Mr. Foster's refusal.
3. The episode asks whether a teenager should receive a new dress when three existing dresses are available for an important dance.
4. Judy announces that the school dance is Wednesday, June 2nd, only two weeks away.
5. Judy repeatedly checks the time at 8:45 while the Foster family notices her pacing and nervousness.
6. Judy worries that something she said to Oogie seven months earlier may make him remember it and seek revenge.
7. Oogie calls Judy and invites her to the dance, but Judy immediately says she cannot attend without a new dress.
8. Judy rejects one dress because it resembles Missy's planned outfit and rejects a green dress because Oogie's suit is blue.
9. Judy also dismisses an old-rose dress because Oogie has already seen it at least a dozen times.
10. Mr. Foster points to three usable dresses while Judy identifies a preferred dress in the Bond Town department store window.
11. Judy says she will "die dead" if she misses the dance, converting ordinary disappointment into comic teenage catastrophe.
12. Oogie tells Judy he would be proud to take her in anything, but Judy still treats the new dress as a matter of principle.
13. Oogie offers to repay Mr. Foster at $1.50 or $1.75 per week from a $3.50 allowance.
14. Mr. Foster says the refusal is not about cost and describes Judy's demand as evidence of a spoiled attitude.
15. Judy sends increasingly elaborate messages about never marrying, leaving home, and repaying the pablum bought for her as a baby.
16. Dora recalls refusing to remove rouge from her teeth before a party, connecting her own teenage stubbornness with Judy's behavior.
17. The program uses rapid family banter, repeated phone checks, exaggerated declarations, and escalating misunderstandings.
18. Louise Erickson, John Brown, Myra Marsh, Dick Davis, and Dick Crenna perform a scripted family sitcom with commercial breaks for Tums.
19. Fans of vintage radio sitcoms and comic parent-teen conflicts.
20. Listeners seeking unscripted interviews or contemporary drama may skip it.
