Gracie Wants Bing Crosby To Retire: Burns and Allen (December 4, 1947)

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“Gracie Wants Bing Crosby To Retire” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 4, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gracie Allen worries that her husband George Burns is becoming too self-centred, so she consults their neighbour Dr. Miller, who explains that George has an inflated sense of his own importance. Gracie decides the answer is to persuade George to retire from his career, and she begins arranging for him to step aside. The episode is a comedy from the Burns and Allen series, first broadcast on December 4, 1947, on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc in the cast. Bing Crosby appears as a guest star.

Burns and Allen's home and Hollywood, California

Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Dr. Miller, Bing Crosby

Listen for: Gracie's plan to get George to retire, and the guest appearance by Bing Crosby

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.