What happens
Gracie Allen and her friend Blanche Morton return from a movie starring Gregory Peck and grumble that their husbands fall short of his romance. Gracie decides to form a housewives' association and draws up a contract for the husbands to sign. Her husband George Burns resists, reading the contract's absurd clauses aloud, while Meredith Willson drops in with a story about a lady drummer and union rules. The episode is an installment of the Burns and Allen series, broadcast on January 2, 1947 on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc in the cast.
A neighborhood in the United States, centered on the Burns and Allen home, in 1947.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Blanche Morton, Meredith Willson, Harry Morton, Bill Goodwin, Mel Blanc, Mr. Postman
Listen for: Gracie's plan for the Housewives' Guild contract and George's reading of its clauses.
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.