What happens
Gracie Allen writes a newspaper play for the Los Angeles Son, a story in which reporters George Burns, Bob Houston and Artie Shaw are sent to prison to expose a crooked warden. Gracie's scheme to get them arrested works, but the warden soon has the three men facing execution, and Gracie races to the governor to try to save them. The episode is a Burns and Allen comedy broadcast for Hormel and Spam, with Gracie Allen and George Burns in the leading roles, and it aired on December 16, 1940. Artie Shaw and his orchestra also appear in the play.
Hollywood and Los Angeles, in a radio studio and in the fictional Los Angeles Son newspaper office, with a prison and the governor's mansion in the play.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Bob Houston, Artie Shaw, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson
Listen for: Gracie's logic-defying newspaper play, the sound-effects cues, and the race to save the reporters from the electric chair.
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.