What happens
Gracie Allen announces to George Burns that she is running for President of the United States, and the two bicker over whether a woman can win and what the office requires. Gracie promises jobs to her friends, including Frank Parker, Truman Bradley and Ray Noble, and she invents the Surprise Party as her political affiliation. Burns, meanwhile, grows increasingly alarmed by the appointments she is handing out and the campaign chaos around the studio. The episode is a comedy from the Burns and Allen series, first broadcast on February 28, 1940, with Gracie Allen and George Burns leading the cast alongside Frank Parker and Ray Noble's orchestra.
A radio studio in Los Angeles during an on-air broadcast, where Gracie Allen's presidential campaign is staged in the middle of the program.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Frank Parker, Ray Noble, Truman Bradley, Harry Crocker, Matt Weinstein, Casey John
Listen for: Gracie's fast, illogical reasoning about the presidency and the government jobs she promises, and Burns's exasperated attempts to stop her.
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.