What happens
George Burns and Gracie Allen are at home after George wins a $200,000 breach of contract case. A court fee of $25 must be paid by the end of the day, but George is unable to pay it. Gracie tries to help by making a series of long-distance phone calls to various contacts, each one running up a larger bill. The episode is from the Burns and Allen series, first broadcast on September 9, 1940, with George Burns and Gracie Allen in the leading roles.
Burns and Allen's home in Hollywood, California
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Artie Shaw, Millard Byer, Judge Hamill
Listen for: Gracie's repeated long-distance phone calls and the mounting charges on George's bill.
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.