Gracie Wants a Job for Christmas Money: Burns and Allen (November 28, 1946)

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“Gracie Wants a Job for Christmas Money” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 28, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gracie Allen wants money for Christmas shopping, so she pampers George Burns at breakfast and then tries to earn her own. She hears a suggestion from Meredith Willson about selling door to door and visits a progressive school run by Professor Abercrombie. There she hires young Charles Miller, who sells boxes of Perfecto Royale cigars for her. Gracie's plan keeps tangling with George's cigar supply and her own growing schemes. The episode is from the Burns and Allen series, first aired on 1946-11-28 on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc among the leads.

The Burns home, a neighborhood of houses, and Professor Abercrombie's Progressive School

Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Blanche Morton, Meredith Willson, Professor Abercrombie, Charles Miller, Bill Goodwin, Mel Blanc

Listen for: Gracie's door-to-door cigar sales with young Charles Miller and her wild business reasoning

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.