Guest - Sonny Tufts: Burns and Allen (February 6, 1947)

“Guest - Sonny Tufts” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 6, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Gracie Allen's country cousin Nelly comes to stay with George Burns and Gracie while she looks for a husband in Hollywood. Nelly chooses movie star Sonny Tufts, and Gracie and George devise a scheme to win him over. Gracie visits Sonny with a punch board offering him a farm, while the household's comic mix-ups continue. Burns and Allen is a comedy series, and this episode of the Maxwell House Coffee Time broadcast, first aired on February 6, 1947, starred George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin and Meredith Willson's orchestra, with Sonny Tufts as guest.

The Burns home in Hollywood, California, and the surrounding neighborhood

Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Nelly, Sonny Tufts, Bill Goodwin, Mel Blanc, Bertha

Listen for: Gracie's scheme to win Sonny Tufts over for her cousin Nelly, and the mix-ups that follow as Sonny meets the Burns household

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.