What happens
Gracie Allen and George Burns are preparing for a showdown over who will play the lead in the film The Hucksters, with Clark Gable as the rival candidate. Gracie visits Gable at his home and talks up George, mentioning his hunting, while Gable shows off the hunting dogs he keeps and names after film actresses. Later, Gracie and George meet Gable at their house, where the men compare themselves and Gable jokes about his dogs. The episode is a light comedy from the Burns and Allen radio series, first broadcast on November 21, 1946, on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen and George Burns in the leading roles.
Los Angeles, at the Burns home and at Clark Gable's house, around the casting dispute for The Hucksters
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Clark Gable, Bill Goodwin, Meredith Willson, Mel Blanc
Listen for: Gracie's increasingly tangled questions to Gable about George's hunting, and Gable's account of his three retrievers, Lana, Claudette and Heady
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.