Cowboy Love Tales: Burns and Allen (October 5, 1943)

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“Cowboy Love Tales” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 5, 1943. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

George Burns and Gracie Allen star in this 1943 episode of their radio comedy series, which first aired on October 5, 1943. George secretly reads Cowboy Love Tales magazines and begins visiting a lady dentist, Dr. Clark, and Gracie grows jealous. Gracie hires an actor, Nigel Bolingbroke, to pose as a Russian lover to make George jealous. Bill Goodwin and Bea Benaderet appear alongside them in the story, which is still unfolding as the transcript ends.

The Burns home and the streets and offices of a California town in the 1940s

Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Bea Benaderet, Nigel Bolingbroke, Miss Pringle, Dr. Clark, Mr. Foster

Listen for: Gracie's jealousy over George's visits to the lady dentist and her plan with Nigel Bolingbroke to make him jealous

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.