The Burns and Allen Show: Old-Time Radio Comedy

George Burns and Gracie Allen host a New Year's broadcast of their radio series, trading nonsense banter about holiday revelry with Henry King and his orchestra. Tony Martin appears as a guest, and the cast talks about his new visit to New York. Gracie describes a sightseeing tour Constance Wilson gave Tony, and the talk turns to a mink coat he reportedly bought her. Gracie insists on a kiss from Tony Martin as part of a resolution, while the regulars keep up their playful confusion. The episode was broadcast on CBS and NBC radio on January 6, 1937, and features Gracie...

Gracie Allen and George Burns host a holiday broadcast in which the cast chats about Christmas shopping and gift-giving, with Tony Martin and Henry King taking part. Gracie announces an original play, Gracie's Christmas Carol, a comic take on Dickens in which George Burns plays the stingy Scrooge figure and the cast play the three ghosts. The opening scenes set up the premise: Scrooge is haunted on Christmas Eve by visitors who turn out to be familiar radio figures, including Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor, who appear to pursue him over stolen jokes. The broadcast is a Burns and...

Gracie Allen and George Burns play a mock-game of fun for fools with Tony Martin, Henry King and Ken Niles, who are sent into a silly sentence-making contest. The game leads into a dramatized tale about Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit, with the cast playing Mexican officials and revolutionaries. Gracie, playing a president, speaks with Tony Martin's Pancho Villa and an excitable general, and the scene turns into a rapid string of mix-ups and gunfire-filled talk. The Burns and Allen show of 1936 is built around this kind of wordplay and sketches. Campbell's chicken soup is promoted between segments.

Gracie Allen and George Burns host a program honoring New Orleans, and the broadcast is loaded with comic banter. Gracie mixes up words and gets tangled in her own logic while George tries to keep the show on track. Tony Martin, who is busy filming and kissing Alice Faye on a movie set, is mentioned as a date conflict. Telegrams from listeners arrive about the city, and guests from the audience are invited to the microphone to share facts about New Orleans. The episode is from the Burns and Allen series, originally aired on December 9, 1936, on CBS and NBC...

Burns and Allen is a 1936 radio comedy episode in which George Burns and Gracie Allen host their program, joined by Tony Martin, Henry King and Mel Blanc. The show opens with a debate between George and Henry over mustaches, which leads to Henry's romantic exploits with older women. Tony arrives late to the broadcast, and Gracie nearly misses his entrance, prompting George to scold him. Director Frank Mitchell is introduced, and the cast joins in a series of comic exchanges, including a rehearsal of a love scene and George coaching others on delivery and timing. The transcript ends partway...

George Burns and Gracie Allen stage a dramatized version of the Landing of the Indians at Plymouth for their Thanksgiving broadcast. Gracie gathers the cast, which includes Tony Martin, Ken Niles and Henry King, and the program moves through the boat's arrival, a meeting with a pair of Indian characters, and a visit from a butcher trying to sell turkeys in the middle of the show. Gracie repeatedly steers the scene into comic detours, including talk about Tony Martin's movie career and a kiss. The episode is a 1936 installment of the Burns and Allen series, originally broadcast on 1936-11...

George Burns and Gracie Allen return to New York from a two-week absence and share their homecoming with their regular cast, including Ted Husing, Milton Watson and Jack Benny's orchestra leader Meredith Willson. Gracie keeps trying to fit Campbell's tomato juice into the conversation, and George keeps mocking her brother Ike's habits and the family stories she tells. A talent scout named Mr. Kling arrives and asks Milton Watson to read a scene. Gracie insists on playing Sadie Thompson herself, with George as the trader and Milton as the Reverend Davidson. The scene is read aloud with sound effects...