What happens
Gracie Allen, after seeing a Gregory Peck film with her friend Dorothy, decides her husband George Burns should be as romantic as the screen hero. George visits Peck to ask for help changing her attitude. Peck offers to stage a demonstration, and George and Gracie come to dinner expecting to see a model husband in action. This Burns and Allen episode from January 6, 1949 features Gregory Peck as a guest star on the Maxwell House Coffee Time broadcast.
A movie theater, the Burns home, and Gregory Peck's home in Hollywood.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Dorothy Demeling, Gregory Peck, Mrs. Gregory Peck, Bill Goodwin, Margie
Listen for: Gracie's dream of her husband acting like Gregory Peck, and the staged dinner at the Peck house.
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.