What happens
Gracie Allen's cousin Nelly needs a husband, and Gracie decides that movie star Cary Grant will do. She enlists the members of her Beverly Hills Uplift Society to plan a campaign to capture him. The women treat the scheme like a military operation, sending a spy, Harry, to Grant's house to size him up. Meanwhile George Burns gets caught up in the plans and tries to stop them. The Burns and Allen comedy series is broadcast on CBS and NBC Radio, and this episode is dated February 13, 1947. Gracie Allen and George Burns headline the show, with Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc in the cast.
Burns and Allen's home and the Beverly Hills Uplift Society, with Cary Grant's house and a Hollywood beauty shop
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Cary Grant, Nelly, Meredith Wilson, Bill Goodwin, Doris Singleton
Listen for: Gracie's military-style campaign plans and the Uplift Society members plotting to capture Cary Grant
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.