What happens
George Burns and Gracie Allen appear with guest Howard Duff in this Burns and Allen episode from February 10, 1949. George is questioned by a police lieutenant after he and Sam Spade find themselves in jail. Gracie, having believed Sam Spade's radio program was real, has been pursuing Spade to free an innocent butler accused of murder. Spade and George recount the chase, Gracie's increasingly odd disguises, and the attempts to get her to drop the matter.
Los Angeles, California, a police lieutenant's office and city jail, after a Sunday night radio broadcast of the Sam Spade program
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sam Spade, Howard Duff, Lieutenant, Jenkins
Listen for: Gracie's mistaken belief that Sam Spade is a real detective, and her persistent efforts to free the butler
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.